The only lore that Blizzard cares about and will never retcon is that Alliance players can’t have High Elves. That is the one sacred rule they have.
This week Void Elves can be deathknights.
Next week Illidan will be retconned into two goblins in a suit.
everyone die
everyone come back cuz Bolvar has a bad feeling
so lomg life
Player requests are cannon in WoW lore 
I mean, the passive buff Pandaren and AR DKs get is changed from “Veteran of the Third War” to “Veteran of the Fourth War” for exactly that reason. Folks can RP a different backstory, but all of the new Death Knights are, lorewise, people who died during BfA.
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They’re only studying the void so they shouldn’t call themselves void elves.
They don’t understand or even know much about their own power/connection.
I am quite interested in actually executing it as a comic as well.
Lore? lol. It’s just a cheesy ret-con to keep a dwindling player base sorta happy.
Void Elves served, and died, in the Fourth War. Bolvar then raised some of them as part of a new batch of Death Knights. I believe there’s a brief intro for the AR DKs that explains all this, though I haven’t created one myself.
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Not that different than an Undead Death Knight if you really think about it. You’re a Human who died and became Scourge, then was liberated from the Lich King and became a Forsaken, and then died again or something and was taken over by the Lich King again, and liberated again by Darion Mograine, only to return again to the Undercity as Forsaken.
So, as I understand it; The Cosmic forces of Void and Death aren’t friendly with each other. It’s nothing like the incapability Void and Light have of coexisting together… but more like… a competition/resentment. Either way, they just don’t mix very well. Not impossible, but not easy.
That being said, A being whose already embraced the powers of death would probably have a harder time trying to channel the void than a being that did it while they were alive and just carried that mastery over with them when they died.
So Void Elves Were originally High Elves that either then became Blood Elves or remained High Elves, that then embraced the void and became Void Elves. After that. they died and became death knights.
If the chicken crossed the road to get to the “other side”, the “other side” being dead, then the void elf was a dead blood elf. Wait, what?
You’re a VE that booked an appointment with Bolvar to be transformed into a DK.
There is none.
That is simply incorrect. Void Elves, as well as every other Allied Race, have a lore explanation for how they became Death Knights.
This is the backstory I made:
Once upon a time there were twin sisters, born in Quel’thalas in the year 6780 Y.S.: Castilla and Camilla Dawnwalker. Their family were members of the Church of Light, and as they grew into adulthood, they both became Paladins of the Light.
Conflict was ever present in their lives after the events of the Third War. The sisters were assigned to separate regiments as their father requested, which was both a blessing and ultimately a curse. Although the twin sisters had an emotional “connection” that allowed them to sense each other’s emotional state, the years of physical separation weakened and confused it. War and death permeated every aspect of their lives. And while Castilla continued to have faith in the Light, Camilla began to doubt it.
Camilla met Magister Umbric at a social gathering in Silvermoon and was intrigued by his studies of the Void; so much so that she eventually followed him and his followers to Telogrus, and was transformed by what she experienced there, becoming a child of the void: a Ren’dorei.
Exiled from Silvermoon, Camilla followed Umbric and Alleria Windrunner into the Alliance. With her connection to the Light broken, she became a warrior, and fought in the Battle of Dazar’Alor, where she was slain by Ra’wani Kanae at the gates to the city. Thus ends the story of Camilla Dawnwalker. But so also begins the story of Black Lilac.
Camilla was raised from the dead by a special task force sent into Dazar’Alor by the Knights of the Ebon Blade, searching for worthy fallen heroes to join their ranks. Becoming a Death Knight has changed her completely, and she has forgotten her sister and any ties to her past, even assuming a new name: Black Lilac. Or so it would seem.
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Strict cannon wise all the allied race and other new DKs are people who died during the 4th War and Bolvar made DKs.
Based on the timeline, we know void elves had been in the rift for years prior to Arthas coming along and the timeline of Wrath happening. It makes much more sense for void elves to have been blood elves who became void elves, and then died throughout the fourth war, and then were brought back by Bolvar, which is why their intro cinematic is different.
There is none, the popular idea is Void cannot interact with Death. Void can’t interact with anything. Void elves are by far the most limited race on what they can and can’t use without exploding on the spot.
If you want a real challenge try justifying the existence of Light Forged Death Knights.
Sure bit the bullet on this one didn’t you XD
Find the Cosmic Powers Chart. Hope that helps.