Silver Covenant likely represent a large amount of existing High Elves, not a minor one.
I know scarcity is not a barrier to being an Allied race, that is not being contested by me.
But there are just not that many High Elves left.
Iâm totally not suggesting High Elves are a numerous race, they are smaller in numbers than Blood Elves for sure, but they are definitely not âin the brink of extinctionâ as people like to suggest.
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Then what is the point of this tangent? Itâs not like any of us know the actual numbers.
QuelâLithien also wasnât explicitly part of the Alliance afaik. Dunno why people keep bringing â10%â over and over.
If Iâve learned anything today, especially from Eleroleron, is that you should always have a source to post anything of significance.
Preferably a book, or other official Blizzard source.
Outdated figure. Doesnât even take into account the forces that left with Kaelâthas.
An interesting thing to note is that while there are clearly elements which can be recognized as being distinctly Thalassian, theyâve been altered in several meaningful ways. The first is that despite their grandiose design, Dalaranâs buildings are almost all constructed of laid-bricks â whereas Silvermoonâs is all made sculpted as if from a single stone.
As the texture quality of the game improves, these types of distinctions become clearer and clearer.
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I think thatâs more to do with Silvermoon being from BC.
Anyway, the less populous the race is, the more important my character feel, i donât mind this, if there are 10 Void Elves in the lore i can basically attest that my character is among the 10 most important and prominent Void Elves.
I feel as if youâre purposely skimming over points madeâŚ
No one is denying the Silver covenant is an organized force. As I stated several times now, they are a militia primarily of High elves. YesâŚthey would have operations.
You tried to use the fact they engage blood elves and survive as a definition of high numbers, of which i told you logically not every bloodelf is in the army. Additionally in the case of Thunder isle, they were supplemented.
Once againâŚrecent or notâŚno act or event has yet to dispute the original and correct claim of the very low numbers and lack of unity of the remainimg Highelves
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Not really my tangent, so idk.
I donât need to argue how few High Elves there are. Itâs one of Warcraftâs easy facts.
Not that being scarce or numbers not mattering has stopped people from doing headcounts of every instance of a High Elf NPC in game, or doing mental gymnastics to reason that the 90% of high elves dying out on Azeroth somehow wasnât talking about High Elves in Dalaran.
Those are things Iâm not unpacking here.
I first noticed that Dalaran was built from bricks in official art, and Silvermoonâs sculpted-style is also reflected in official art â and both distinctions are also visible in-game.
One of the most popular High Elf AR concepts is Vereesa or Arator going around uniting the various High Elf associations, as each of them would contribute a unique take on the collective.
The most simple example being Dalaran High Elves attributing the Mages with Highvale elves providing Shaman (High Elves were placed with Wildhammer in Stromgarde but were mysteriously cut later).
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And also not every High Elf is in the army, this is what iâm trying to say, iâm not attesting they are numerous, Elves in general arenât.
Itâs not possible to organize a group if thereâs no unity among it.
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I never got to see any reference, but did knew of this through hearsay; as such I always considered it a rumor. Does anyone have any evidence of it?
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Actually, their primary force is comprised of Silver Covenant Spellblades, Silver Covenant Rangers, and Silver Covenant Scouts- all of which are High Elves. About 90% of their forces overall are High Elves.
All you have to do is just go there and LOOK.
But of course, its not written down or is cited by an official source, so its N/A.
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Led by the death knight Arthas, a Scourge army stormed into QuelâThalas, slaughtering almost ninety percent of the kingdomâs population.
No need for mental gymnastics, just a quick jog to WoWâs website
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tbf, all they didn on Isle of Thunder was establish a base for the alliance army to portal in
Thanks. I know my lore.
Cherry-picking where theyâve said Quelâthalas instead of Azeroth, or ignoring the facts like Dalaran was a low population city, that many who evacuated Dalaran with Jaina got bombed later in Theramore, or non-citable numbers of High Elves living outside Quelâthalas is just spinning the narrative to again, reason more High Elves into existence.
They are scarce. Increasingly so in WoW specifically, especially moving away from WotLK.
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Is it âcherry-pickingâ when virtually every citation very specifically mentions Quelâthalas, and not Azeroth?
I, for one, would very much like to see this list of citations youâre drawing from â because it sounds as if you have conclusive evidence that Arthas was teleporting the entirety of the Scourge all over the place to engage in some grudge-killings of all the groups of High Elves that were disassociated with Quelâthalas.
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