It’s probably not a coincidence that the players most excited for Midnight appear to be void elf fans who have spent a good few years now campaigning to neutralize the blood elves as hard as possible. This race’s identity and uniqueness have already been more thoroughly undermined than I thought the devs would permit, and carving up what’s left of them (literally carving up the blood elf home faction to the sole benefit of their enemies, lmao) would be straight trash.
Murky waters, Blizzard.
I haven’t in fact I want the ruthless Blood Elves of the BC era. Today’s Blood Elves are far too Light centric and gone are the motifs that once made their inversion of the traditional High Elf trope so intriguing. Ironically now Void Elves are taking on that mantle of “by any means necessary” trope that the Blood Elves used to embody.
Lone Monk And Cub?
You could rock that theme with the panda pet.
I believe that is also part of the trope, I was thinking Ryu from street fighter.
You can do the panda pet use the floating disk from t he mage hall and name it Rohgu.
I’m not convinced the blood elves being about 25% meaner would soften the blow of their race and kingdom going neutral. Or maybe it would. Maybe if they had any real presence or stakes or interests outside of Quel’Thalas, which they do not, losing their core identity and home faction to neutrality would be less depressing a prospect.
The bitterest irony here is the void elves actually do have all those things: they’re over the Sunwell, their very nature curses them with a stake in cosmic affairs, and yet all this blood elf content going neutral is entirely to their benefit. Some joke.
I don’t know, man. The more I think on it the more I agree with Solarion. Maybe Dalarani high elves tailored to players with an interest in the race beyond what they can poach from the blood elves were the simple and clean solution all along. I’d much rather have fought the Void alongside an Alliance-aligned Dalaran parked in Silvermoon’s ruins than have given half of Silvermoon over to the Alliance-aligned Void, if that’s the disaster Blizzard is cooking up.
I doubt the Alliance Aligned Ren’dorei will be given half of Silvermoon. I doubt that the Blood Elves will go neutral. What I do expect is that Alliance players will be involved in protecting the Sunwell like we see in Quel’Danas. I don’t expect anything more than Lor’themar allowing neutral parties to be part of the retaking of Quel’thelas for the elves and that majority will be Blood not Void or High.
Though we could be wrong and we don’t know. I think if anything Dalaran will move to be over Quel’thelas and act like a staging ground for neutral forces. Silvermoon will likely be Horde and even if somehow, they rebuild the Western side. I don’t think it will be Alliance per se, but neutral ground for idk a convocation of Silvermoon being reformed.
A wartime Convocation could be cool. The Silvermoon trio, Liadrin, the Windrunners with pulses, probably Umbric, maybe Auric, possibly Tae’thelan, unfortunately Aethas. Get Voren’thal in there to counter ranger fatigue with mage fatigue. Velonara and some not-chaotic-evil felblood and san’layn OCs if we want to rep the spicier bloodlines. And guest starring, on probation from probation, fresh from the bowels of hell…
I’m not for the elves uniting under one banner, but I do like the idea of elves forming a coalition that allows them to have peaceable relationship and provide mutual aid to one another.
Of course, and I feel as though there are less hindrances to bridge the divide between Night Elves and Nightborne than there is for Blood Elves, High Elves, and Void Elves.
I thought it was established in the Nightborne recruitment scenario that High Elves were allowed in Quel’thalas? I feel like it’s just Void Elves are the unwelcome ones.
Alleria was welcomed as a heroine of the Second War, and thus Quel’Thalas. When we visited the Sunwell, however, the High Elven pilgrims which were once there, as well as Auric whom once stood there as the High Elves’ representative, were all gone.
Other than the absence of High Elven NPCs, however, there was nothing to definitively say one way or another.
We’ll “come together”, defeat the Big Bad, and then go home and get ready to fight each other in the next war.
The High Elves are considered traitors to Quel’thelas for leaguing with the Alliance that betrayed their people.
You forget the most important elf of all.
Sylvanas Windrunner, she will be back with kael’thas to help defend quel’thalas from the void.
Joke aside I do think that she will play a minor role in midnight seeing how important she was for Quel’thalas, a cameo or maybe leading the forces of death in the last battle, helping the living as an act of penitence.
Illidan is bound to return in TFT so maybe she will too. The range general!
I think Sylvanas’ story will be linked to Anduin’s. They did a lot to set that up in Shadowlands.
“The Last Titan” says to me the “last remaining Titan”. Ie. One that didn’t get trapped in the prison, rather than one that got freed.
I don’t have any interest in the Nightborne getting involved with all the other “elves”. I’m still not happy with their leaders being attached.
Oh Elisande, why did you have to go all Fel?!?
When Elisande wasn’t exiling dissenters from Suramar to become withered, she was carting off Nightborne by the dozen to fuel the Legion’s soul engines. She’s trash, and I’m sure her sudden change of heart after being defeated in the Nighthold will be exposed as a sham in the Tyr questline.
Instead of lamenting the loss of a tyrant, you should be excited that Thalyssra is now set to get development alongside Lor’themar in Midnight.
Answering the OP’s original question…
If it is a plot device where the Elves on either side set aside their differences to oppose a greater enemy. They do this all the time with the factions, it works “OK”.
If it is some lessening of faction differences/barriers. I am not a fan of the faction war anyway.
I don’t see where Bat Boy has either place or relevance.
Unless it’s the Real Bat Boy, Hillary’s secret child.
He is sargeras’s jailer maybe he’ll be the first to get corrupted by the titans and get orderbound or he will flee and return to us with a warning that the titans are coming back.
I lnow they can do whatever they want to not return our lord and savior to us but if sargeras returns he at least must have a cameo to why he is missing