The Unofficial High Elf Discussion Megathread

I don’t have an exhaustive list, though others might. :stuck_out_tongue:

A decent example is the Stormwind Portal Room, wherein Void Elves are being trained to maintain portals by a High Elf.

If anything, Void Elves will become magically superior considering they have absolutely no limits or scruples about attaining magical power. All they care about is subverting expectations that using “bad magic” is evil or wrong.

Even have Umbric mocking the Nightborne’s arcane constructions in one of the Nazmir incursions, so they definitely have the passion and confidence to measure up to an ancient arcane race.

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I’ll try to browse up. :slight_smile:

And lol. I don’t know about that proving much. Portal magic is something they’re adept at, but they likely still need instruction on specific portals.

A charming observation at any rate.

To be fair, though, there isn’t any real indication that the High Elves are held up by any serious issues of morality either – at least when it comes to sources of magic.

The two groups who’ve presented with such objections are either dead (Quel’Lithien HE’s) or so divested from the geopolitical realities of modern Azeroth that they haven’t been present in any conflict in more than a decade (Quel’Danil HE’s). Neither grouping being representative of the group which constitutes the predominating majority of all modern High Elves: the Silver Covenant, based out of Dalaran.

There are High Elves who use Fel and Void (separately, of course).

I actually do agree with that too, I do think the notion that High Elves find dark magic to be icky is more chalked up to what people headcanon they want the race to be, but there exist things like that High Elf Warlock in old Dalaran and now all the High Elves that are in the Rift.

I think it’s why I find Night Elves to be far more faithful to that whole “pure untainted elf” type of fantasy, because there’s some element of them that’s still strict about magical pursuit and they can’t be the more rebellious caster type like Warlock.

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He’s literally the only thing like a High Elf Warlock and he might not even be one since he’s called “Summoner” and may only be one for game mechanics.

Your also ignoring the fact that most High Elf mages are connected to the Kirin Tor who have very strict rules on how to use magic.

You guys can make another 8k+ posts, high elves still aint happening

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Just to clarify that statement is and always has been applicable to the Elves within the Kingdom Of Quel’Thalas not the Quel’dorei who were part of the Kingdoms of Dalaran, Stormwind, Lorderon, Theramore, & etc. And it is these Quel’dorei whom we are asking to be made playable. Those whom were not from Quel’Thalas nor subjects of the Sunstrider rule.

Just sounds too much like headcanon. A lot of other Warlock NPC’s tend to be called summoners too, because that’s part of their career. They summon demons and stuff.

The Kirin Tor have also understood to accept help no matter where it comes and Khadgar nor the rest of the council seemed bothered at all about Warlocks having a demon gate in their basement and enlisting their help against the Legion.

Again, he’s literally the only one. And there are other things to summon besides demons.

Even if he is he might be an extremely rare specialist.

You do know that place is lawless and a hub for criminal activity right?

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why do you guys make up stuff like this to suit your narrative? the queldorei = the sindorei :roll_eyes:

then where did they come from if not quelthalas? i mean you know they emigrated from quelthalas right? just because they left quelthalas and settled in alliance kingdoms doesnt mean they abandon who they were and pretend 90% of their race wasnt wiped off the face off azeroth. asking for blood elves to be playable on both factions like pandas makes more sense then saying the alliance blood elves somehow magically appeared in dalaran and dont care about their homeland because reasons :thinking:

No matter how many times you try and state this it’s not true.

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I feel the same. But in Vanilla Forsaken didn’t matched with the Horde either.

Not really, in Warcraft 3 when orcs meet the night elfs for the first time (i mean being assaulted by sentinels) the orcs described that they were like the High Elfs, but bigger and wilder.

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You know I responded to your post before I read through all your useless troll post where you are very ignorant of the games lore, nor how the concept of Fealty works. A Quel’dorei whom was part of any of the Kingdoms I listed other than that of Quel’Thalas holds zero loyalty or Fealty to said Kingdom of Quel’Thalas.

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Compromise means both parties give up on something but end up in an agreement. There was no agreement. One party decided everything, now the other is asking for a better deal.

Not the thalassians we wanted.

How dense are you? It’s not just hair and skin, it’s about lore. When will you understand that it’s less about appearance and more about the horribly executed story and the complete disregard for the elves that were already in the Alliance? That the void elves are a new group, fabricated out of nowhere, with unrelatable characters, that completely ignores there was way better story seeds already waiting?

We are looking into lore, we have followed it for over 24 years. The only ones shallow enough to look at the model and be satisfied are people like you. You claim to be defending lore, but you don’t care about it one bit. That’s the only way void elves may seem like a “compromise”.

Oh, look, Ion’s famous dismissal!

We didn’t accept it from him, we won’t accept it from you.

You are wasting your time here. And ours, as well. Thought, at least, you help bump the thread.

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They are still using fel crystals if people want evidence.
Also, at that place they were practicing Blood Magic recklessly.

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It’s simple as that really, i don’t get people trying to overcomplicate that.
In Legion they were present even on general content and were on the foreground of the expansion experience, i hold my point that they were doing that with making them payable in the future in mind.

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Of course one party (Blizzard) decided everything. It is their game after all. They decided playable High Elves didn’t work. However they still wanted to expand the story with the void and Alleria. Therefore they gave us Void Elves. This way Alliance could still have Thalassian elves who are followers of Alleria while also expanding on the void theme.

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This is not something that can be decided or discussed without being put in practice.
They didn’t put in mind if Void Elves would work or not, they just made them happen without any regard. Actually all of the Allied Races were added without the devs pondering if they would “work” or not.

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Yes, it is.

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