Yes, and I agree with him 100% on that. Void Elves are distinct from Blood Elves. High Elves are not.
Lets assume the faction conflict is resolved by the end of BfA, with the Alliance and Horde no longer at war. Why would there be a reason to make High Elves playable at that point? Wouldn’t it be more likely we would see a reunification of Blood and High Elves under Silvermoon’s flag?
I’m still amazed that we had a whole void storyline in both Nazmir AND Stormsong, as well as the dark-magic wielding witches of Drustvar, and the void elves weren’t used for anything. Heck, Blizzard had no idea of what to do with Stormsong Valley so they forced a Horde invasion storyline at the last minute, when it could have been used to flesh out the Void, void elves and maybe even Lightforged draenei.
Have you been doing the War Campaign? Void Elves are operating all over Zandalar.
Which, according to him, matters within a faction conflict expansion. Once BFA is over, High Elves are more acceptable.
Probably not. Most High Elves live happily within the Alliance and have no reason to join a Totalitarian State. They’ve made lives and families for themselves within the Alliance’s cities and settlements. Why should they give that up as well as numerous freedoms to move back to a nation where the people will scorn them, judge them, and mistreat them? Why rejoin Quel’Thalas? It’s not their home.
But to the question, yes, there is a reason. Because players have asked for it. We see High Elves within the 7th Legion, within Alliance settlements. It’s only natural to want to play them within the Alliance.
At this point even if Quel’Thalas left the Horde (which we have no indication of happening), the High Elves have many reasons not to return.
They are being used in the campaing, not fleshed out in it. It’s a story featuring them, not about them. YOu could replace them with Kirin Tor mages and it would be mostly the same thing. Except for the void dinosaurs, which are dumb.
Blood Elf culture is nowadays entirely focused around the Light and the Arcane, while Hunters are despised and seen as backwards. Meanwhile High Elves seem to be going the other way around, being in touch with nature with their lodges. This has been stated probably a thousand times by now within this thread.
The Blood Trolls in Nazmir use blood magic, and the Witches in Drustvar apparently use death magic from Gorak Tul, not shadow/void. But there is no excuse for the Void Elves not to show interest in Stormsong Valley, what with Tidesages being able to use the Void apparently being a known thing. Plus the whole K’thir and the presence of an Old God around, and all that jazz.
You mean the lodges where they all turned into Wretched? How did that work out for them? ![:roll_eyes:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/roll_eyes.png?v=6" ":roll_eyes:")
Oh, and you seem to have forgotten about the High Elf mages in the Kirin Tor. They would fit in just fine in Blood Elf society.
Yeah, because there is SUCH LOVE between Dalaran and Quel’Thalas right now…
You mean the mages that are part of the Silver Covenant and hate Blood Elves more than anything in the world, going as far as mudering and torturing them during the purge of Dalaran?
Well…Khadgar did let them return to Dalaran in Legion. ![:wink:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/wink.png?v=6" ":wink:")
Khadgar is not a high elf and didn’t ask their opinion in the matter.
The Kirin Tor did let the Horde back, but that’s unlikely to change all the bad blood between the Silver Covenant and the Sunreavers.
Small steps. At least they were working together instead of killing each other.
You seem to consistently fail to take into consideration the matter from the perspective of a High Elf. Let me pose to you this question: Do you think Kael’thas would have returned to Quel’Thalas if the Third War did not happen, and Quel’Thalas did not fall, or do you think he would have remained in Dalaran? Would he have returned to Quel’Thalas for anything less than an obligation to fulfill his duty as Prince?
Once you have your answer, ask yourself, why would any High Elf, especially those living in Dalaran, want to move to Quel’Thalas and submit themselves to the Totalitarian State ruled by Lor’themar Theron, which is no longer its own sovereign nation, but ruled by the Warchief of the Horde?
they are not. Dalaran is still an alliance member nation. It reopened itself to the horde for legion and even then it was put to a vote that really only passed because khadgar had returned and there was an extinction level event going on that demanded cooperation.
As far as we can tell the horde are only allowed in dalaran as citizens. They can’t use it for military purposes unlike the alliance. If the horde did use it to aid the war effort then it would result in the horde be expelled from the city again.
Maybe because they still have family living in Quel’Thalas whom they would like to see again? Maybe because they would like to live among their own people in their own lands?
and that is just assumption and ignores what we do know.
Then why would they be in Dalaran to begin with? What of their families within Dalaran? Considering they apparently chose Dalaran over Quel’Thalas, who is to say any family within Quel’Thalas wants to see them ever again?
You’re really not looking at this from the point of view of the High Elves.
That is irrelevant.
A high elf’s home is Silvermoon
A high elf living abroad is still subject to the citizens home country. Therefore, if your prince renames you and your people as blood elves, then you are a blood elf, regardless of your protests.
From that point forth, you will be perceived as a blood elf, and will not care that you didn’t take any part in the naming process. The outside races will not care, you are a blood elf, the high elves are no more except for characters in history.
but the majority of high elves in the alliance were never citizens of quel’thelas. They were born and raised in human kingdoms as see those as their home kingdom.