Void Elf Customization Thread (Ascension of the Ren'dorei) (Part 1)

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Look dude, as MANY on these forums know, I’m a try hard High Elf stan. Because I prefer Alliance and want to be a hot Elf, with the same vibe of Elder Scrolls/LotR/DnD, lol.

But ONE thing I CAN’T stand, is when people go into a customization thread and just toxicly attack or bully the people wanting said customizations. It’s mean and uncalled for. I’ve been so upset and hurt by their comments that 9/10 times I end up looking like a jerk, because it gets to me so much. So I think what you’re doing in this thread is mostly rude and uncalled for.

As for the point that I QUOTED, the High Elf race we both wanted will NEVER truly be.

We got VOID Elves, that is what we will always see on quest text for ourselves.

The High Elf Race we wanted was given to both the Horde and the Alliance. With the Blue eyes they are associated with being given to both. Furthering the idea that we will ONLY get Void Elves (unless half elves come down the line).

When they gave us the High Elf Skin Tones and Hair colors, it was largely due to Alleria looking like a High Elf with Entropic Embrace.

But it was also due to fan requests, and that before 9.0 they openly said they wanted players to get to RP as say a Sand Troll, even though they’re playing a Darkspear technically.

We already know that ANY new hairs that have Void tentacles or effects would most likely have a toggle effect. For those who wish to not have it.

The best we could hope for is an option in the future to hide the appearance of Entropic Embrace, for the full immersive effect. Along with some nice Elf hair that isn’t emo esque or widows peaky for the men.

Personally, I think Shadow tattoos or Void dripped fingers like NB have essentially along with some of the other ideas here would look cool with the normal skin tones.

Sidebar #1: IF we ever got Paladins it would likely be so High Elf fans could RP as one and be a Paladin. But I guarantee you that no Void Elf NPCs would be VE looking. They might even make it to where you can’t look like a VE in skin color to be one, but I don’t know about that last bit. Making it a non-canon fan service option.

Sidebar #2: Technically Light and Void can work, we see it with Undead. We just know that a being infused with massive amounts of Light or Void, are in pain when they touch. But to be fair, Forsaken also experience the pain when using the light.

Sidebar #3: Do VEs actually Bleed purple?

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Well an artist by the handle of Keyboardturner actually made some concepts of different class skins, including a Void based Paladin for Void Elves,

This shows an option for both a traditional Silver Hand Paladin and and Riftblade, being the Void based variant, which is ideally how they would work

I really do hope to have class skins in general, applicable to all kinds of different class/race combinations. I really hope something like this could make it into the game some day.

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I fully agree, it’d be a way to make every class work for every race, without breaking the lore. The animations would take some time to recolor. But this is my top want/hope for future xpacs.

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Braid/Tentacle toggle (Some hairstyles need it !)
http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2022/07/6/1645257160-fl6bhjvxiae76bg.jpeg

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Those are amazing, the braids and tattoos are all gorgeous :heart_eyes:

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Adding in an option for a Tentacle, a Braid, or nothing. Also drastically shakes up the options for customization in a nice way. While giving a nice kind of Wood Elven/Scottish vibe almost to the Alliance version of these Elves. Which I imagine would go well with people who want more distinction Visually for Blood Elves and Void Elves.

Like I know this isn’t a Blood Elf thread, but perhaps that means they could get more sophisticated and Posh styles with Nightborne Inspiritation? Just a thought

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Yes, it’s gorgeous !
Whether you’re an Umbric or Alleria void elf, these customizations are perfect for both. :ok_hand:

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The ones I link above are the most likely I think to become reality based on Blizzards general level of customization so far. Which is why those are in the more likely section while options like Ace has made are in the unlikely section.

No doubt there are many options that Blizzard could explore however with void based skin tones.

Ah, yes Fiercelords spread of various options in that run is very nice. If the main post wasn’t giving me so many picture based issues I’d have them up there already.

If I want to add anything to it at this point I have to take something away. Waiting till I have a nice block of time I can set aside to put a imgur album together with some of the options I think are within the “likely” category and another for the “unlikely”. I’ll probably sneak these into one of those two albums.

Interesting. Based on the WCII warpaint? Do they come in blue? (Not the paint. I mean the elves skin tone.)

As it happens Somand made a few mockups earlier today with those same tattoos for Blood Elves.

I saw those. Interesting designs and a few of them I really like and think I’d use easily. Though I am a big fan of the purple eyes for my Void Elves.

I’ll be honest I’m not that into new eyes for Void Elves, though I do support more, I’m just rather content with my own as they are. lol

Very pretty. I’ll add it to my list. (Along with the others). Like I said I can’t add things to the main post without removing something at this point it seems so it’ll probably end up in one of two albums later… Might divvy them up a bit to keep things easier to find…

Yes. Its not easy to notice unless you’re really looking.

But we do.

You know what bothers me about this.

That they changed out her chest piece for an almost identical one.

Like at least give em a full breastplate.

Drives me nuts.

I don’t immensely mind the skins idea. I think applied to all the races its a good idea.

Riftblades as a paladin for void elves. Sunwalkers for Tauren where their powers are firey. Ect.

I suspect that if Blizzard did do that they would probably have a light version for the high elf folk. Sounds like what they’d do anyhow.

Would allow void elf hairstyles to be copied over to blood elves without the glaring holes in the hair while they were at it.

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That’s really cool, actually. Seems more fantasy-esque to me as well.

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Yeah, I’ve always liked that about void elves (when I found out about it).

Makes us feel truly changed by the process and like we’re going into an unknown.

It’s a nice touch.

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Can’t wait to see them.

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Do you guys think Void Elves or High Elves on the Alliance will ever make a appearance again in the Main Story besides being Props or small side characters in a Expansion?

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I want this so bad!

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Probably be major players in a void based expansion. (void elves anyways.)

Then again… This is a death themed expansion and the Forsaken haven’t had any story…

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Which is very surprising since the power to do that came from the Shadowlands.

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Are you saying that Shadowlands had any story?

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I’d like to see Entropic Embrace customization.

It kinda already exists, actually. Entropic Embrace is just an effect that changes the character skin and hair color, plus places a dark blue glow over the character model.

The idea is just that we can select which skin and hair color we changes to. For high elf enthusiasts, they just need to select the same ones they have normally, so they don’t change. Only the blue glow (which is very slight) would remain.

Me, particularly, would love to be able to swap between a normal and a voidy appearance that is less dark blue. For instance, your elf may have black or brown skin rather than a paler tone in entropic embrace, or your hair changes to silver or a darker shade of your normal color.

Bonus points if this comes with a new racial or toy to allow void elves to toggle their appearance while off-combat.

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To be fair, SL had a lot of Story content. It just wasn’t nearly as easy to access as past expansions. The only part of the story that wasn’t present was Zoval. Which is huge yes, but they at least did have story in there.

To be honest, Elves in general will be leading players for 10.0

Based on the store mounts we can expect more Blood/High/Void Elf story and areas. The moon Phoenix (skyblazer) and Sun kitty both look Thalasian inspired.

However they’ve always used High Elves for Alliance content and story to varying degrees since BC.

With Alleria now being a BIG player who was present for the SL intro even, we’ll see more stuff with her and Arator at least. Which will likely also tie in the Alliance sister Varessa and the Silver Covenant.

I’m not entirely sure how many Void Elves we’ll see specifically, but since Alleria herself is one now, they’ll likely have at least a 50/50 presence with the High Elf NPCs in areas.

Couple that in with Turalyon being a Human and the light, I bet we’ll be seeing Alleria and the Elves pretty frequently.

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Ramavatarama created another great concept, an Entropic Embrace toggle, via speaking to an NPC and setting the toggle to your preference.

First to provide a more subtle option;

As well as a permanent toggle that lasts until canceled;

He also made a concept for different colors;

I also really like the hair colors in these edits :purple_heart:

And a link to the original post;

Great work as always Rama :hugs: :purple_heart:

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Those are nice!

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