Interesting! Today I learned things. While I got you, Mr. Loreax, maybe you can tell me the story of why the Alliance turned turned their backs on the high elves in the first when they needed help and were at their most desperate. I never really got that part, since I was under the impression that they have been long term friends and it was clear they absolutely could use assistance.
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Question being, which time? Per the Blood Elf perspective, there are two, maybe three cases that could apply, depending on oneâs definition of, âHigh Elf.â
The first would be the Second War. The elves, having committed only a token force to the Alliance to honor their old blood oath to the line of Arathor, never expected the Horde to be a threat to them. That is, until the Horde allied with the Amani. By that time, QuelâThalas had fallen under heavy assault by the Horde. Red dragons burned the southern half of Eversong Forest (again, modern day Ghostlands).
Some elves felt that the Alliance didnât do enough to protect QuelâThalas during the Second War due to the damage and loss of life the High Kingdom suffered.
Now, as to the second case, thatâd be the Scourge.
Lordaeron having already fallen to the Scourge, led by Death Knight Arthas Menethil, the Alliance was in a state of chaos and disorganization. Unfortunately, QuelâThalas fell so fast that they didnât even have time to send a message to Dalaran, where their crown prince was, and whom wouldâve gone to the aid of QuelâThalas, portals and teleportation magic being so useful in that regard.
For the third case, weâll examine the Blood Elf introduction to World of Warcraft.
Now, here we see the Alliance acting as spies on the Blood Elves, while only paying minor lip service to courting them back into the Alliance. The Night Elves, who couldnât be bothered to mobilize the Sentinels all throughout vanilla despite their sacred forests being on felfire and rife with corrupted furbolg, naga, satyr, demons, and hostile orcs, decided to send an army halfway across the world to QuelâThalas to investigate, âreckless arcane magic,â use. That army has apparently stayed there if the Void Elf recruitment scenario is anything to go by. Probably wouldâve been more useful defending Teldrassil in the War of Thorns, but I guess keeping an eye on the Blood Elves, even in a time of peace, was a higher priority or something.
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I want to point out the elves, at least those of Quelâthalas were not even members of the Alliance. So the Alliance as a whole didnt even have an obligation to help the elves, not that they could help and considering how the elves acted when they left probably were not particularly interested in helping.
Yeah didnât the majority of Thalassian elves ditch the alliance after the second war?
They only reason they originally helped was due to the oath to the Lothar lineage
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Anasterian accused Terenas of being an awful ally and called the expedition to Draenor pointless.
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Which is stupid, if not for the Alliance all of Quelâthalas would have burned down.
And as for the Draenor one, considering had the Alliance not been their, Draenorâs death could have lead to a catacylsm of its own in Azeroth.
I mean maybe it was pointless. Depends on whether the Alliance could just seal the gate behind the horde from the blasted land side and let them tear apart draenor without effecting Azeroth
Yes. The majority of Thalassian elves never cared for humanityâs issues in the slightest, much like how people overstate Tauren and Night Elven relations, Thalassian and Human relations are grossly overstated. Anasterian is the norm as far as the Thalassians are concerned with Kaelâthas [ at least until Garithos ] and the Windrunners being the exceptions.
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The Kingdom of QuelâThalas withdrew from the Alliance after the Second War. High Elves remained in the service of the Alliance despite this, but these elves ignored Anasterianâs commands to return home, or were part of Dalaran. I only mention Dalaran as I imagine it was something of an exception to that command, given Kaelâthas never faced any repercussions for not returning to QuelâThalas after the Second War.
Only 5 people are demanding high elves!!
*creates a super-megathread about high elves, just for the sake of complaining and be mad about something.
This is the zenith of foolishness.
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I was thinking High Elf could be the race for Midnight like Earthen. Remember in the plot teaser they gave we are supposed to unite the elves or something?
Maybe a new king emerges, wielding Quelâserrar or something. And after the campaign we can play a High Elf on either side.
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Possible option. Personally I would rather high elves stay Alliance and the Horde can get Fel elves.
So that would be arcane/void for the Alliance and Holy/Fel for the Horde.
More likely a Queen. Arator can be her trophy husband.
âGive us the same race for the third time!â
Meanwhile, the soul crushing frustration from everyone on Alliance who would like a cool new raceâŚ
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Haha⌠thatâs cute⌠you think Alliance players have ANY hope for a cool, new race? After MECHAGNOMES?! FAT HUMANS KUL TIRANS? ELDRITCH ABOMINATION ELVES? DRAENEI WITH 110% MORE LIGHT?!
Alliance standards are so low weâd probable be happy with the HD Gnolls (but weâd get the old versions for sure).
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Dark Irons were dope.
But yeah, my point is they are overdue something exciting. Getting the fifth elf that is the third Thalassian elf with aesthetics they can select on the two existing Thalassian elves would be an actual punishment for anyone who isnât part of the Elf Toddler Brigade.
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If nothing else it would be an end to the requests.
Having said that, my own preference, if we DO get High Elf, would be a visually distinct version of the race. Again, look at Nozdormu and Alexstrazaâs visage forms to get an idea.
No, it would not. I can promise with complete confidence that if you give them exactly what they want, they will remain implacably petulant about further demands.
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Facts donât add up.
After the skin tones and hair colors (and tentacle toggle) were added to Void Elves, much of the request died down. Thereâs still some people out here asking for more, but itâs nowhere near as loud or frequent as it used to be. There are days/weeks where I can look at the general forums and see no High Elf topics these days. Heck, until this one there hasnât been once in ages in the Story Forums, really.
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If you build it, they will come
To whine more
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