The Unofficial High Elf Discussion Megathread

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google can define it for you

but more importantly, i actually agree with you, any race can be made playable. blizzard can do anything they like and create anything they like. On that point, there is no argument

Sure there is, not every faction and race in game needs to be playable.

Correct.

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So… all of your posts thus far.

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Interestingly enough I wasn’t aware that this thread was affected by sundays in the same way as the rest of the forums were.

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I understand your point: you’ll always be right if you choose to ignore everything that makes you wrong.

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Uh…

To highlight the description:

The Silver Covenant is a militant core of high elves that reject the admission of blood elves into the Kirin Tor. They have united under the banner of Vereesa Windrunner and joined the Alliance Vanguard to oppose the Lich King.

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Did you ever lean in school not to use -pedia as a source, because it is (in this case) player generated content and does not tell the full story?

but I humoured you and looked at the site

The Silver Covenant is a militant faction of high elves led by the high elf Vereesa Windrunner. They reject the admission of blood elves into the Kirin Tor

on the same wiki site

blood elves are high elves who changed their name after the Scourge invasion of Quel’Thalas. Their new name is a dirge, referencing both the blood of their many brethren who fell during the Third War and their royal lineage

now let me point out the contradiction by highlighting key points

blood elves are high elves

The Silver Covenant is a militant faction of high elves… [who] reject the admission of blood elves into the Kirin Tor

as such,

Blood elves are high elves. the silver cov are High elves who are actually blood elves, whom of which reject other blood elves.

Thanks pedia

is this the part where you request a safe space?

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You know, I don’t think I’ll be too surprised if the next time the Silver Covenant shows up and plays a role in the story, that they’ll have Void Elves in their ranks. I could see them saying they were personally vouched for by Alleria before Vereesa accepted them.

It might even be a chance for us to see a new Void Elf Lore character besides Umbric if the Void Elves within the Silver Covenant have their own Captain to report to.

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Blood Elves are former High Elves, but not all High Elves are Blood Elves. We’ve had this song and dance before. Get some new material.

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Man, your logic sucks. You are literally taking a sentence that distinguishes two things and using it to “prove” they are the same.

It’s like arguing that the water in oceans and rivers is the same just because both are water.

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This would be likely if we get a Silvermoon warfront.

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this isn’t adversarial combat, there are no points to be won.

In burning crusade, it was well established that blood elves were high elves. It is only recently that the high/blood elf debate really picked up steam. I think in large part, it is due to a change in the demographic of the game. Those who played the rts in the 90’s are likely no longer involved in the warcraft universe or are few in number.

So it would make sense, that as a new generation interprets the material, it may be confusing as to how the high elves came to be blood elves, and how the blood elves joined the horde.

Well if you’re going to lower my score I’ll just let you read the word-for-word exact same thing from a primary source: the game.

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Begging the question fallacy.

Your premise is flawed.

You’re presuming that Quel’dorei are Sin’dorei.

Following this logic, Shal’dorei, Kal’dorei and the Naga are Sin’dorei too.

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I played each of the Warcraft games the year they came out.

Nobody has argued that Blood Elves aren’t High Elves.

The request has always been for Quel’dorei, who have been in wow since Vanilla, to be playable.

The “Blood Elves are High Elves” is just a weird ineffectual straw man that’s been making the rounds lately.

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Speaking of flawed premises…

those you mentioned are different species. blood elves were high elves that just changed their name. no other difference biologically. unless you think a fish person is the same as an elf, in which case that would explain a lot.

you do not know your fallacies, it is cringe worthy

it is not a strawman, when it is the prince of the high elves, kael thas that renames his people.

are you sure you played ALL the games?

And Kul Tirans are just humans with a different name. No other difference biologically.

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