That’s fine, but I’m still convinced many of the high elf threads are one person 
Or one small community of people alt-hopping. They’re so common these days. Can’t log into the forums without seeing one or two active.
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You mean the highborne, azhara and her lackeys. Tyrande malfurion split from the highborne and became night elves after renouncing magic.
High elves are the ones who were banished by tyrande and malfurion after refusing to give up magic. This was after the well of eternity erupted and became the maelstrom of today.
“Race” in WoW can denote a lot of different things, including heritage, culture, allegiances, whatever. They took the name blood elf because they respected Kael’thas’s idea that it would honor their fallen kin. Then when some were exiled and found themselves transformed by the void they took the name void elf. They didn’t take the name high elf because their connection to the void is a new, distinct identity for them. Meanwhile the remaining high elves call themselves that specifically to distinguish themselves from the blood elves, to denote their allegiance to the alliance and not the horde.
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But yet some of vereesa’s group went to telegrus to learn and study the void freely. So you have blood elves and high elves studying the void. Both groups can be void elves.
I think void elves is a condition. Ie both blood and high elves becoming infused with the void. But just because they are infused doesnt mean they forget where they come from. They may take on a new name but that doesnt mean that they just forget their past
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I’m a High Elf who is also a Blood Elf but also a Void Elf in an alternate reality but in that alternate reality, I’m still a High Elf.
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Shhh… let the high elf threads fade away…
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That’s an impossible task. I quit for over a year and there were still High Elf threads.
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I wonder, is that canon, or someone’s opinion? Is Blizzard Watch authorised and payed for by Blizzard?
Is the person who said this a paid, sponsored member of the Blizzard team?
Because opinions are opinions are opinions.
And Metzen said that… "Blood Elves were chosen as the Horde expansion race in the Burning Crusade because designers were thrilled with how well Samwise had redesigned the classic wood elves with the night elves. And they knew that, “one day, high elves are going to have to get a facelift, too.
I don’t think anyone has abused high elves to this degree…”
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We are the true inheritors of the Quel’dorei legacy. Being in the the Alliance doesn’t male you a high elf. We took up the name Sin’dorei as a memorial to the Quel’dorei that were slain by the Scourge. Those Thalassians that refuse the name are traitors to our people.
Enjoy your human potential, traitors.
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A High Elf racial mount would be a mouse with too many cookies.
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This goes against the other customization options available to the races and is not a good statement…
Blackhand Orcs, Wildhammer Dwarves, Sandtrolls, everything non-existent now just because they are rolled into another race options?
They already have this, if they want to play a Silver Covenant High Elf.
Traitors?! You got some nerve!
You and your “Reagent Lord” exiled us because we chose to research the void, a power that could have helped us in the battle with the scourge!
Enjoy your orc and undead filth. The ren’dorei is our home, we welcome any blood elf that is tired of your horde.
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am i the only one who read this as high elf communism? 
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For sure. That’s actually something I originally wrote in my last post but deleted before publishing, because I felt like I was rambling - A blood elf can become a high elf through a change of allegiance. Same with a high elf to a blood elf. And both blood elves and high elves can become void elves.
That last one involves a good deal more than just a change of tabard though. Can a void elf ever go back to being a blood elf or high elf? Maybe? It’s lore that just hasn’t been explored yet. We don’t know yet if all or even some of the effects of the void are reversible. I hope it’s something they do go into one day. The way elves’ react and mutate with exposure to different magics has been a super interesting trait of theirs for a long time. What if someone like one of those felbloods from the sunwell raid ever found their way to telogrus and chowed down on some void porridge? Maybe we’d get an elf version of Xhul’horac!
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High elves are addicted to mana. This is why belves without the sunwell were withering. Like what happened to the nightbourne.
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you’re forgetting the Nightborne, who themselves were highborne but they changed in their bubble, siphoning from their new well of power.
meanwhile Kael’thas and his highborne became Blood Elves after they broke off from the Alliance, since they got tired of the racism.
so yes, as i said, the Highborne are no more, yet people cannot let go of them.
Never quite got this. It wasn’t the Alliance that was racist to them, it was Lordaeron. So what do the Blood Elves do in BC? Ally with Lordaeron and the dead souls that were racist to them from WC3. /logic.
Not necessarily. Some joined the alliance, the rest stayed behind
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It has been since October of 2020 and people are still trying to gatekeep virtual elves. Who cares? Just call yourself what you want
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This is a highly contentious issue that demands the utmost level of scrutiny.
Blue eyes are extremely important, you see.