Thats the crazy part about it is they’re literally Blood Elves lol. At least the first bunch. They didn’t come from the Silver Covenant or some other High Elf group.
(and yes i mean High Elves. everyone knows who you’re talkin about when you say HIGH ELF. Blood Elves don’t refer to themselves as such and i think everyone knows that.)
Even with “High Elf” options from the beginning, if they had a somewhat tweaked model there would have been a greater difference between them and Blood Elves thn what we have now. Gameplay wise and even Lorewise if the O.G bunch were High Elves rather than Blood Elves.