Newly returned player here, who quit in Cata and only poked my head in the door occasionally since.
I’ve got a basic gestalt of the major events of each expansion, but I’m not able to find much info on the state of the Sin’Dorei and how world events have impacted them since the purification of the Sunwell.
As such, I’m finding it difficult to create a motivation for my character since the greatest enemies and conflicts of Blood Elves seem dealt with, but I digress.
Any insight as to current affairs as they pertain to Sin’dorei would be very much appreciated!
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Have you done the heritage quests?
Also Lor’themar has a short story w Thalyssra and they got married at the beginning of the expansion (or it was referenced at the beginning as having had just happened is what I mean)
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Blood Elves kill one of the vampire dudes whose names escape me (see: not venthyr) in the scourge area north of quel’thalas. one of the adopted blood elf kids has grown up and become a paladin.
lor’themar and thalyssra are married, but i don’t think it’s been commented on how either elf society has changed in relation to that.
Aethas set up an effective muffin protection regime on Argus which was the highlight of the Horde participation in that patch.
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Wrath - Sylvanas convinced Lor’themar to support Aethas Sunreaver to help Dalaran’s efforts in Northrend. The group became known as the Sunreavers and their alliance political rivals are known as the Silver Covenant which are banished High elves from Silvermoon.
Arthas resurrected the fallen forces Kael’thas sent to Northrend becoming the vampiric San’layns.
Cataylsm - During the attack on Theramore, Thalen Songweaver deceived Atheas and Rhonin’s aid for Jania as an agent for Garrosh to lower the defenses for the Mana Bomb. Songweaver is still at large.
Mists of Pandaria - Varian Wrynn was negotiating the Blood elves into the alliance when Fanlyr Silverthorn napped a mogu super weapon from Darnassus through Dalaran into Silvermoon-- convincing Atheas to stay silent which led to Jania to believe the Sunreavers supported Garrosh’s destruction that killed Rhonin in Theramore which so happened to be the husband to Vereesa Windrunner which is also the leader of their rival group in Dalaran called the Silver Covenant that motivated a grisly event called the Purge of Dalaran that captured blood elven civilians and slain any that resisted. Lor’themar called off Wrynn’s negotiations.
Legion - The Blood knights arrived on the Broken Isles to help the Paladin Champion and come to aid the Nightfallen rebellion. The new Nightborne leader, Thalyssra, reached out to the Blood elves for their help in overthrowing the Legion.
There is another rival political alliance group of Blood elves practicing Void magic from the traitor Dar’Khan Drathir’s research for power.
Edit: Aethas redeemed the Sunreavers back into the Kirin Tor alongside the Mage Champion to protect Dalaran.
Shadowlands - During the SEVEN YEAR TIME SKIP IN SHADOWLANDS, the Blood elves held off the unleashed Scourge, and Thalyssra proposed to Lor’themar. After Sylvanas abandoned the Forsaken, Calia Menethil assumed the position and then the Dark Rangers (or possessed San’layns) sorta returned to the Blood elves and Void Elves.
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I didn’t know there were heritage quests! I know what happened through Wrath but that sounds like a good way to help get caught up on things, or at least a fun diversion.
The Blood Elves are faring exceptionally well in recent times. As demonstrated by the heritage quests, they have the means to defend themselves against the scourge completely unaided by even their Horde allies.
Consider also that the wedding of Thalyssra, leader of the Nightborne, and Lor’themar was attended by major leaders of the Horde and Alliance. There are few leaders in the current game setting that have nearly the same level of influence and power that they have.
With the marriage of Thalyssra and Lor’themar, the Blood Elves finally have true allies within their own faction that they share a strong affinity with. (Not to undermine the relationship they had with the Undead, but we can all agree that was merely an alliance of convenience.)
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The sad thing is, he’s not joking.
But given what attention from the story team often looks like, maybe we dodged a bullet.
Look, you can protect the muffins…
Or you can commit assault with the muffins for poorly explained reasons. Or you can get concussed by a muffin and get high res cinematics about how throwing the muffin made someone feel bad.
Ahem. As well as what’s been mentioned, some blood elf dark rangers may be coming home.
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Some Blood Elves have split off from the Horde and their fellow sin’dorei and became Alliance Void Elves. By experimenting with void magics and ethereal shenanigans they are now void infused and serve Alleria Windrunner.
After years of struggling with the Scourge the Blood Elves finally defeated the Scourge coming from Deatholme. It’s been in the same post thrid war state, overrun with undead until now.
Some blood elves decided to become shark feed in Dalaran.
It’s pretty weird but hey, no kinkshaming.
Blood elves also showed up in force to assist the AU Draenei during the events of WoD. But not sure how well-know AU shenanigans would be back on Azeroth.
Everyone else has mentioned most of what the Blood Elves have been up to so I thought I’d add a tidbit I found recently. According to Exploring Azeroth: The Eastern Kingdoms, there are still a number of Alliance sympathizers in the upper echelons of Blood Elf society, and they have contact with SI:7. Mathias didn’t even want to name them out of respect for their positions (and presumably the issues it would cause for them if the information came out.)
Not that it means the Blood Elves are going to magically switch factions tomorrow, but I find it interesting Blizz has decided to keep this thread “somewhat open”. Aside from Blood Elves leaving to become Void Elves, the last we heard about this type of thing was in MoP where the negotiations to bring the Blood Elves into the Alliance were cancelled when Jaina did her Dalaran thing. It could lead to some future faction fracture in Silvermoon or something.
It’s not really a major lore event, it’s more of just “Oh look, lots of Blood Elves are still dissatisfied with the Horde.” Which is reasonable tbh.
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That’s a rather hyperbolic reading. All Shaw notes is that Silvermoon’s public forum in the Bazaar may be returning, that SI:7 once felt out the crowd to identify “friends” to the Alliance, and that any such individuals wouldn’t be found in Murder Row.
It’s also a bit of a moot point considering half the Alliance’s leadership attended the regent of Silvermoon’s wedding and every blood elf character save for Rommath probably qualifies as a “friend to the Alliance” as of DF.
Maybe it was a little hyperbolic, but that was meant as a reaction to the book stuff and the void elf stuff combined.
He mentions Murder Row as being scum central and that “any friends the Alliance has are higher up the latter”, to the point where he doesn’t want to compromise their positions by even having them down on paper. He uses a plural so it could be as little as two people, or more. We don’t know. But this implies there are multiple people in the government who are willing to be Alliance contacts. And since the Blood Elves have very little in common with the rest of the Horde except for the Nightborne, and since joining they’ve been caught up in two Alliance/Horde wars where they realized they were on the wrong side, it makes perfect sense that any Blood Elf would question their loyalties.
He also mentions in the book that Alleria truly believes that Silvermoon will rejoin the Alliance. This is just her personal opinion which may or may not be open to void whispers, but it’s an interesting thing to mention in the same chapter as mentioning there are Alliance favoring Blood Elves in the Silvermoon government.
Blood Elves essentially have an open avenue to joining the Alliance through Void Elves now. And the Alliance now has almost as many leaders/hero figures hailing from Silvermoon as the Horde do. Alleria, Vereesa, Umbric, and Valeera if you count her which is very debatable. Versus Lor’themer, Rommath, Brightwing, and Liadrin. I don’t know of many more prominent Blood Elves aside from the Reliquary leader.
All I’m saying almost any time the Blood Elves come up in the lore these days, there’s some kind of Alliance influence there. Which I find interesting.
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My bet is that’s a tidbit for the (very vocal) High Elf fans, not an indication of future story directions.
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Not really. Their race/faction-specific content either has nothing to do with the Alliance at all or puts them directly at odds with it, and I think you’re overstating the latter’s import. The void elves’ cameo in the Battle for Lordaeron was the first and last time a blood elf even acknowledged the “traitors” existed; certainly that arc had no bearing on the blood elves’ beefy racial quest chains in BfA and SHL.
That the cartography of the Alliance’s spymaster contains musings on politics and espionage – mostly it’s just Golden writing what Golden sees – is probably of less consequence than you imagine; besides, Shadows Rising already identified Shaw’s agents in Lor’themar and Gallywix’s retinues. What I found most interesting was his willingness to acknowledge that Gairthos’s bigotry lost Silvermoon’s allegiance to the Horde. That character is usually treated as WoW’s Scottish play.
There’s certainly potential for conflict between Silvermoon’s exiles and Silvermoon’s subjects, but I can’t imagine yet another fracturing on policy is the form it’s going to take. The Alliance already has high elves who don’t want to be blood elves and now blood elves who don’t want to be Horde; what else do you want?
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While I would love for Silvermoon to rejoin the Alliance, I’m not saying it’s what I want in this discussion. I was just bringing up my thoughts on Blood Elf/Alliance relations. I quit during Shadowlands and came back for Dragonflight, so I’m catching up on lore and have either found out some of this stuff recently like the Silvermoon SI:7 contacts, or have come to the realization of other details like the Alliance nearly tying the Horde for important Quel’dorei characters (for lack of a better term to include High, Blood, and Void Elves).
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What’s a couple attempted ethnic cleansing among friends?
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