Yeah, they could always cheat and go underground into the Black Empire as well I guess.
Personally I prefer the xpacs where weāre just milling around collecting 10 boar arses for fun instead of with a really strong storyline.
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Or zebra hooves at a 5 percent drop rate? Haha those were the days
Blood Elves would have never been Alliance.
They where set up from the start to be a villain race in Outland.
But they needed a pretty race for the Horde so they retconned in survivors in Silvermoon and made them vastly different from the High Elves already in the Alliance but not as evil as the ones in Outland.
Alliance High Elves where almost our 4th race in Vanilla but they really wanted to do Gnomes and already had Night Elves and didnāt want to do 2 versions of the same race for one faction.
I think their first draft was Ogres for the Horde and Pandaren for the Alliance in BC.
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Iād have to disagree.
There were the blood elves Kaelāthas took with him, and there are the blood elves who stayed home in Silvermoon.
I would have vastly preferred Blood Elves to be on the Alliance, but at this stage, thereās no use crying over spilled milk
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No. It was cannon that there where no survivors in Silvermoon. There are even ingame books that still say so.
Originally Kaelāthas rounded up all the survivors who would join him and joined with the Alliance to fight the scourge before fleeing to Outland.
High Elves where the ones who never followed Keal. Their faction was originally going to be called the Silvermoon Remnant and that was later used to make the Silver Covenant.
The player ones in BC where retconned in because the Outland ones where meant to be Bad Guys. Thatās why player Blood Elves seem so disjointed from their outland Counterparts.
There was never any chance of Blood Elves being on the Alliance.
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There are enough elves in this game we need more cows
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I like the cut of your jib Billyboots.
Ogres were never proven to be in the pre-alpha, it was only a rumor. Metzen only confirmed Pandaren were originally slotted for the Alliance race, but got changed because Pandarens made no sense for Outland.
actually it is clear early on blood elves were being written for the alliance. Random dwarf ambassador and night elves are in quelāthelas. They make little sense to be spying on the blood elves who are neutral and have no reason to go against the alliance at that point.
Supposedly the original quests had the night elves constructing moonwells to help the blood elves cope with the loss of the sunwell and the dwarves I think were there to survey the area.
After a poll done in asia blizzard switched them to horde and started coming up with new ideas for the alliance.
Do you have a source for any of that other than the guy who wrote the book once saying he vaguely remembered the poll of asian players, but never stuck it in the book?
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I donāt have a source as I read this years ago before even legion I think. It may be on the wiki for some alpha wow stuff.
No. WC3 gave good reason for them to not be alliance.
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Wasnt there that screenshot of the character creation screen of the pre-alpha TBC with the blood elves as playable on Hordeā¦still using the reskinned night elf model?
This was decided on pretty early on. They got switched in the concept phases and they likely started building the zones at the same time.
but is it a worse reason than to join the horde?
Honestly you have to suspend belief a little to see the blood elves joining the horde. First they meet with undead and they only know the undead as enemies. Knowing the forsaken as well realistically while they may not have been hostile to each other at first they likely would have done something to cause the blood elves to immediately become hostile to them.
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But then that makes no sense because pandaren were the original concept Alliance race for TBC per Metzen.
The undead ruled by their former Ranger General?
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Who not only failed to protect their kingdom from utter destruction, even sending several messengers to Silvermoon with no protection, but also took part in some of said destruction.
Absolutely not.
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At this point there is no turning back, actually no turning back since tbc announcement of blood elves to horde.
But story wise, it really doesnāt make much sense even from wc3. Garithos was a bad man, not representative of the wow alliance. Just a jerk beyond measure. This was only towards kaelāthas and his merry bandā¦ the Silvermoon elves left behind should have been logical enough to know SW and the ironforge dwarves didnāt have anything to do with Garithos.
Run to the arms of former allies? Or run to the arms of a race that you fought against in the past?
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