It is genuinely so cool seeing all the different visual variations of Void Elfs on the forums and in game. Blueberry Void Elves, natural High Elves, combinations of those 2, and now Darkfallen too…
Now we just need a customization pass for Void customizations + tattoos and I can just imagine HOW cool everyone will look! Fingers crossesd for some at Dragonflight launch!
They gave the blue eyed option to Blood Elves as well as the purple eyed option, so at this point, not giving red eyes over to the Void Elves would have been pretty odd.
Blood Elves shouldn’t have blue eyes. If you can play a High Elf defecting over to the Horde you can play a Dark Ranger defecting over to the Alliance.
Well… There were lore reasons behind Blood Elves getting blue eyes, to be fair. Also, I’ve seen a fair amount of High Elf stans ask for Blood Elves to just have green/gold eyes again unfort.
My personal outrage is that Night Elves and Void Elves got Darkfallen, but only Blood Elves on the Horde did. No Nightborne option. Which is biggie sad.
But can we talk about how I’m not against Nightborne getting Dark Rangers and also didn’t complain about when Blood Elves got blue eyes they shouldn’t have gotten. =P
Unfortunately it appears to be. Especially with Darkfallen paladins, which should theoretically be impossible in the old lore. Its the same argument why Void Elves shouldn’t be able to be paladins (and I’m not talking about High Elf RPers, where that is fine.)
Perhaps? But it would also take half a second to assume that a Nightborne could be some version of a Night Elf representation on the Horde.
You’re right, but that only strengthens my desire for NB Darkfallen.
They are spiteful this week, it seems. As happy as I am for Darkfallen peeps, I wanted so badly for my NB (who I RP as a Dark Ranger) to have the opportunity to be one.
It could be, easily. Either a Void Elf died in the battle for Darkshore and got raised as a Dark Ranger, or a Dark Ranger was like “Void powers? That sounds cool!” Take your pick, really.
Honestly, I just don’t really see why it was given to the Alliance in the first place, let alone the Void Elves. I understand the Warcraft lore is huge, but there is no lore to support for the Void Elves. Otherwise yes, if given to the Void Elves, then why not give to the Nightborne.
The devs seem to be out of touch with the lore, to the point where the lore is meaningless now.
From all I can gather (reading the same text over and over), it just appears to be another sub-race tack on to the race that already struggles to justify its place in the world.
They are the Dark Rangers who only stuck around for whatever reason, still lingering loyalty to Sylvanas(?), and now that the dust has settled they return with the Night Elves who similarly do not feel kinship with the Forsaken.
Which returns us full circle as to why Nightborne didn’t get it to represent the Night Elf Dark Rangers who stayed.