The Unofficial High Elf Discussion Megathread

[Yvendria-frostmane]

Do the highelves have a specific spokesperson or leader at all? My first thought is alleria but she seems preoccupied with the velves. Not that they necessarily need a leader just wondering

[Bladinas-scarlet-crusade]

Do the highelves have a specific spokesperson or leader at all? My first thought is alleria but she seems preoccupied with the velves. Not that the necessarily need a leader just wondering

Vereesa leads the Silver Covenant which is probably the largest and most organized group of High Elves in the game.

Outside of that, we’ve seen Captain Auric Sunchaser act as a diplomat for the High elves visiting the Sunwell.

[Alamara-goldrinn (Alamara)]

Vereesa leads the Silver Covenant, which is the largest known group of high elves.
Besides her, Captain Auric Sunchaser, one of Alleria’s subordinates in the Second War, has taken position as high elf representative in the Sunwell.

[Alamara-goldrinn (Alamara)]

Wow, we posted the same thing at the same time.

(And we use the same cowl… hmmm)

[Bladinas-scarlet-crusade]

Wow, we posted the same thing at the same time.

Yeah. Thats kinda funny.

(And we use the same cowl… hmmm)

And the same bow with the same appearance.

[Yvendria-frostmane]

I actually thought the same person accidentally posted the same thing twice haha that’s funny. Good to know that this information seems common (not to me obv)

[Callistus-wyrmrest-accord]

Bladimara.

[Bladinas-scarlet-crusade]

I actually thought the same person accidentally posted the same thing twice haha that’s funny. Good to know that this information seems common (not to me obv)

We’ve known each other for a while. We like to talk about lore and possibilities and stuff.

Its also nice to have a friendly conversation with someone who wants to learn instead of someone who thinks they know everything. (I mean, not that I’m claiming I know everything myself!)

Bladimara.

[Yvendria-frostmane]

Thanks I think it’s interesting and there’s so much wow lore I get confused about. I’m down for alliance getting highelves as a race… But we know that blizzard would never do that without also giving horde a race so wonder what it would/could be. I personally wouldn’t care if they gave alliance highelves but didn’t give horde anything but yea

[Bladinas-scarlet-crusade]

Thanks I think it’s interesting and there’s so much wow lore I get confused about. I’m down for alliance getting highelves as a race… But we know that blizzard would never do that without also giving horde a race so wonder what it would/could be. I personally wouldn’t care if they gave alliance highelves but didn’t give horde anything but yea

Well, I know it’s a long shot- but I think there’s still a chance. I’ll keep posting here, and giving my encouragement and support.

You never know what might happen.

[Alamara-goldrinn (Alamara)]

I have the impression that Blizzard planned to make high elves playable as a counterpart to the Horde’s nightborne, only to change plans at the last minute.

There’s some evidence of the high elves being built up throught Legion, while the void elves we ended up with were a very late idea that had no time to mature. I explained it better here:

The Unofficial High Elf Discussion Megathread

Only a dev coming out and openly saying what happened between Legion and BfA will convince me that the planned allied race for BfA preorder wasn’t high elves. Consider this: An expansion overall content is defined years in advance The concept of allied races was probably defined even before Legion was released (I’d guess the nightborne storyline were a big part in defining it, but not before they had their NPC models done). Over the course of Legion, the first allied races were already define…

Anyway, personally I think the chances of high elves becoming playable are very small, but I still support the thread because I feel we can’t stay silent if we are against a decision Blizzard took. We may not get exactly what we want, but there’s always a chance for a better compromise.

[Mowachassa-dalaran (Mowachassa)]

But we know that blizzard would never do that without also giving horde a race so wonder what it would/could be.

Don’t worry about that, we are very aware that playable races always comes in pairs, one for each faction to maintain balance, except the Pandarem because both factions can play them so there’s no inequality as they are the only Neutral race in the game.
By the way, in the Horde side people are asking for Vulpera, San’layn and Ogres, any of those could be paired with High Elves.

[Lavinya-moon-guard]

But we know that blizzard would never do that without also giving horde a race so wonder what it would/could be.

Either another Thalassian Elf - most likely San’layn

Or a Warcraft Horde race - Forest Trolls (Revantusk) or Ogres.

Or maybe Lightforged Blood Elves to be the Horde’s first lore-lacking Allied race!

[Yvendria-frostmane]

Since the release of the warcraft book Before The Storm I think it was (I never read it). I was thinking for sure that light-risen forsaken would become an alliance allied race with calia menethil leading… But that’s a bit off topic from the high elf megathread

[Mowachassa-dalaran (Mowachassa)]

Some people hinted that, but the overwhelming majority reject the idea completely, it pretty much undermines the Undead fantasy of Warcraft

[Lavinya-moon-guard]

From the looks of it that’d piss off more people on both factions than make them happy.

[Alamara-goldrinn (Alamara)]

I was expecting something like that until the latest Q&A, when Ion and Lore said that they had finished all the preplanned allied races and were now working based on player feedback.

My original predictions for next allied races were junker gnomes, “redeemed” undead, vulpera and ogres. If you wanna know my reasons, this post explains it better:

Next Allied Races? 8.2? 8.3?

My guesses, explained: There’ll be four more allied races in BfA. Basis: – There’s space in the allied race character creation banners for exactly four more races, two per faction. – There’s still two major patches coming, and allied races come in pairs, so one pair per major patch. – Blizzard actually said there would be more allied races in the future – Blizzard also said they have not finalized all allied race details, which means they are working on more. Vulpera Basis: – Vulpera …

After the Q&A, I say the chances for sethrak and san’layn to be among the next allied races have increased.

[Yvendria-frostmane]

Agreed. And I think in Lore, seeing a forsaken for most people is kind of sickening. I’m thinking a lot of members of the horde have more or less just gotten used to it. But I can’t imagine baine being all totally cool about the forsaken haha let alone the alliance being cool with forsaken walking around stormwind

[Lavinya-moon-guard]

The Forsaken have always been a thorn on the Horde’s identity… alongside Blood Elves and Goblins. So half the Horde.

[Yvendria-frostmane]

I feel like blood elves aren’t as much of a thorn as forsaken or goblin but there’s definitely that affiliation aspect.