The High Elf Love Thread đŸ„°

Community General Discussion
8458

And that’s one really good reason not to just leave those tags lying around. :wink:

1 Like
8459

Yeah sorry about that, mum’s just as embarrassed as anyone about it.

2 Likes
8460

As well as she should be.

8461

Well you should have known better than anyone how mad mum gets when people say DH is a three button spec.

2 Likes
8462

The reason Leinadh brought it up, is because you spent about 16-hours stating that “Thalassian” wasn’t ever utilized as a denomyn, anywhere.

But, yeah, “okay”. :man_shrugging:

1 Like
8463

Same here. I don’t like giving mine out for that reason.

2 Likes
8464

I was replying to:

I don’t understand how your post is a reply to what I said.

1 Like
8465

Oh god not this again.

The argument was that Thalassian wasn’t the only demonym.

Besides which, many of those items are named for Quel’thalas, not for elves. Tell me, what makes more sense “Warhorse from Quel’thalas” or “Elven warhorse”? I can’t imagine there’s any “Human horses” in the game.

1 Like
8466

It’s certainly the only demonym they use to refer to their own ethnicity, in-universe. :man_shrugging:

1 Like
8467

Thank god the universe isn’t so narrow as to be confined to that, eh? :woman_shrugging:

8468

According to you.

According to in-universe history, not a single Blood Elf has ever referred to themselves or their broader ethnicity as “High Elf”. :man_shrugging:

1 Like
8469

We’re forced to talk about what is possible, in these threads, based on what we’ve seen.

So the most commonly overlooked thing about these threads is that the developers can create content. The Nightborne didn’t exist, and then they did, the Void Elves didn’t exist and then they did. Mag’har orcs are plucked from a completely separate timeline.

I think the High Elves joining the Void Elves really dilutes the Void Elves personally


and like I said, we can argue in circles here for two years and Blizzard can just add an Island off of Kul’tiras with a bunch of High Elves on it.

If I was making the call as a developer, I wouldn’t do it. Adding an Allied Race High Elf group is another rep to grind, more time played and rep gating them keeps them from being overly pervasive.

We’re obviously limited because they can essentially make up anything, so we just argue in circles here in the meantime because we can also make up anything, but the stuff we make up doesn’t matter.

1 Like
8470

I assume then you don’t regard Dev QnAs as canon? :woman_shrugging:

8471

Is this like a groundhog day thing that we’re all stuck in or something?

8472

Of course not.

Groundhog day was funny.

8473

1 Like
8474

Is Bill Murray unionising the workers? What a comrade.

1 Like
8475

I absolutely do, unless it’s contradicted by the content of all 7 (and soon, 8) expansions.

In this case, Ion can refer to Blood Elves however he wants – the people who are paid to work on the narrative, exclusively, haven’t indicated in the ~12 years since BE’s were introduced that even a single individual has ever referred to their ethnicity as “High Elf”.

If that hurts your feelings, well, that’s a you problem. :man_shrugging:

2 Likes
8476

So then out of universe stuff matters.

Please point to one piece of in-universe instance of someone explicitly stating that blood elves aren’t biologically high elves.

And not saying that they are or aren’t isn’t saying that they aren’t, it’s saying nothing. It’s a neutral statement.

You double guessing Ion and Metzen because it doesn’t suit your agenda isn’t really a me problem. Be wrong all you like. :woman_shrugging:

1 Like
8477

Please point to one instance whereby I’ve claimed they weren’t biologically the same species? (Hint: There isn’t one, but by all means, have a look around.)

The argument isn’t that they’re not the same species, the argument is that they don’t refer to their species as “High Elf”, but as “Thalassian”.

2 Likes