The High Elf Love Thread 🥰

[Elyssaria-kargath]

Will a hug help?

I don’t need one, but I’ll take one

[Sarallesta-shattered-hand]

[Murgatroyd-lightbringer (Murgatroyd)]

@Elyssaria-kargath

@Avarie-farstriders

Will a hug help?

I don’t need one, but I’ll take one

[Elyssaria-kargath]

Well, only the pro’s are the ones that being leading to attacks on the forums anyways.

Hey now, not all pros… I may get defensive of some ideas but certainly do not attack anyone.

Some both sides have guilty members in their party of “attacks” if you wanna call it that. But I’ll just leave it be.

[Valarían-hydraxis]

There is the playable High Elf.

The Warcraft Encyclopedia/High Elves

Prince Kael’thas returned home and rallied all the survivors he could find: approximately 90% of the surviving high elves. He declared that these survivors would now bear a new name–the [ blood elves ] in honor of their fallen people. The blood elves no longer consider themselves high elves, and they have different priorities and behaviors than their high elf kindred.

Sin’dorei

[Itlatn-illidan]

They’re still high elves, they are still that race. So they are indeed playable.

[Sarallesta-shattered-hand]

Hey now, not all pros… I may get defensive of some ideas but certainly do not attack anyone

Sorry, gotta correct myself: Some Pro’s.

Prince Kael’thas returned home and rallied all the survivors he could find: approximately 90% of the surviving high elves. He declared that these survivors would now bear a new name–the [ blood elves ] in honor of their fallen people. The blood elves no longer consider themselves high elves, and they have different priorities and behaviors than their high elf kindred.

Hey man, they are still High Elves. No matter how many times you rename a cup to plate, it is still a cup.

[Valarían-hydraxis]

Renamed High elves.

[Renotarshil-malganis (Renotarshil)]

Blood Elves who are High Elves named this way to Honor the fallen.

[Valarían-hydraxis]

Yup agree,

[Tarrok-thorium-brotherhood (Tarrok)]

As someone said earlier in the thread…

The blood elves or sin’dorei, children of the blood in Thalassian, they are high elves

[Itlatn-illidan]

Done to honor the dead, they are still the race they were before the name change. So they are very much playable high elves.

[Sarallesta-shattered-hand]

Oh where is my hug? D:

[Valarían-hydraxis]

The One’s that didnt follow, didnt rename, the remaining 10%, still call High elves, and some are in the Alliance and some are Silver Covenant and some out in the wow world.

[Itlatn-illidan]

Their race is still playable, however, and as such the request is not a good one.

[Renotarshil-malganis (Renotarshil)]

You don’t have anything funny in your pocket do you?

[Tarrok-thorium-brotherhood (Tarrok)]

And the vast majority make up the Horde’s most popular playable race.

[Elyssaria-kargath]

Blood Elves who are High Elves named this way to Honor the fallen.

Pure speculation here, but I doubt any of the remaining High Elves would have had issue with the blood elf name. But it’s the fact that the main group of Blood elves went off to waltz around with the horde is what keeps them from that… could be head cannon, but no evidence of them not caring about Their fallen kin besides the name adoption.

[Valarían-hydraxis]

Your Sin’dorei are playable, The One’s in the Alliance, Silver Covenant, out in the world not playable to alliance community.

[Sarallesta-shattered-hand]

some are in the Alliance and some are silver covenant and some out in the wow world.

As the thing the devs have been getting at:

To reiterate Ion’s main points of reasoning for why High Elves weren’t going to work, taken from the two live interviews:
-Too similar to Blood Elf in aesthetic (Fair-skinned, tall, majestic, blond-haired)
-Blurs the lines between the factions (Both visually, and by population numbers)
-No clear idea of who/what High Elves are as a larger faction (Splintered groups)
-No hub where High Elves would pull from (Sort of related to the above point)