not this again… 
Not this reaction again to any suggestions which might lead to High Elves.
i do not believe you want high elves. you seem instead to want blizz to rewrite the lore of a preexisting race because you want to be a non-purple elf on the blue team. which already exists. midnight is not gonna give us a third thalassian elf race lmao
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When did I ever say I wanted High Elves?
hey, i mean, at least my suspicion is correct.
Your suspicion being?
first sentence of the post.
I also didn’t say I was opposed to High Elves being in the game. I believe that there is a desire for them and that Blizzard should fulfill that desire.
what goofy legalism. blizz has no obligation to fulfill such a desire, even morally. ‘woodsy elf’ is a niche that has been filled a few times over by now. if people want to play a high elf, they already can; just because some people dislike high elves as they’re playable doesn’t mean they’re not high elves
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Sure it does. It doesn’t have the High Elf label - they clearly don’t fit the niche that keeps getting requested - year after year - thread after thread. And clearly that will keep happening. So what you really hoping to achieve by arguing against it?
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about as much as the people who keep whining for it. if people have been bellyaching for that long about it and blizzard has instead given a different flavor of elf with the customizations for high elves, that’s a pretty good QEF for what they think of the request
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But the same token it isn’t what they asked for - and they will continue to ask for what they want until they get it.
not sure you grasped my point, but it’s ok. i just hope the h-elf simps drink water, shouting pleas incessantly can wear down the throat.
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So your point is to be insulting and get in the last word?
yeah, pretty much. the repetition of these threads is silly, that’s just about it. if the observation isn’t fresh, well, it’s because the question isn’t either. but i don’t care about the last word, you can have that if it pleases you
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They should add “High Elves” on April 1st. Make a fully customizable race out of them, unique racials, the whole bag.
Name character.
Log into the world.
Camera angle soaring over the bay of Dornogal.
Narrator: “The proud and noble High Elves of the Silver Covenant have long been a fixture on the magical streets of Dalaran, a city of mages soaring high in the skies of Azeroth. However, tragedy struck when Xal’atath, imitating a deceased Archmage of the Kirin’Tor, infiltrated the city and brought it crashing down into rubble on the shores of Dornogal. This… is where your story begins…”
Camera angle zooms into a pile of rubble on a dozen dead High Elf corpses
“…and ends.”
And you can just pan the camera around your dead body, but that’s it. Nothing else.
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i only want ‘high’ elves if they’re peacebloom traffickers and instead of blue eyes they have red
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It will never be enough that is why Blizzard stopped trying. They gave ONE compromise and they stop at that now.
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Same way Void Elves are High Elves, and also Blood Elves. Or how Kul Tirans are humans. Or Mag’har are Orcs. It all boils down to the same thing.
Not really racist (at least towards Blood Elves), but their animosity with the Blood Elves isn’t without reason.
The High Elves were exiled from Quel’Thalas by Lor’themar for refusing to turn to mana vampirism to ease their magic withdrawal. Then, the Blood Elves turned around and invited the Horde into their kingdom. Considering the Horde’s racial composition at the time, this was not doing the Blood Elves any favors amongst the exiled High Elves.
You have the Orcs, who as recently as WC2 invaded Quel’Thalas, stole runestones, and burned the southern half of the forest (modern day Ghostlands).
You have the Trolls. Enough said there.
You have the Forsaken. I mean, Quel’Thalas was just destroyed by the Scourge, and Vanilla era Forsaken weren’t exactly acting much better. In fact, Nathanos Blightcaller has the Horde PC attack and slaughter elves in the lodge in the Eastern Plaguelands. It’s a point of contention when Lor’themar visits that lodge after the Sunwell is restored.
So, the Horde was made up of 3 races that historically have tried to exterminate the elves at one point or another. While Orcs, Trolls, and Undead were free to walk the streets of Silvermoon, the exiled High Elves would’ve been killed on sight. Sooooo… yeah, the Silver Covenant’s hostility towards the Blood Elves was not remotely without reason. One can argue it misses a lot of the Blood Elves’ perspective on matters, but the High Elves aren’t omnipotent and don’t have access to WarcraftWiki, so how can one expect them to understand?
That’s not even bringing up the fact Vereesa’s Blood Elf cousin attempted to kidnap her newborn twins to drain their mana because he thought Half-Elves would be a good source of mana. Nothing really inspires paranoia in a population like child abduction. Not that it ever gets mentioned in-game (was in a novel), but it’s not been declared non-canon, so one can factor it into the overall position the Silver Covenant has.
“Didn’t do anything,” is subject to interpretation. As of Chronicles, we know it wasn’t one or two Sunreavers who aided the Horde in the theft of the Divine Bell. The chronicles refers to them in the plural.
The Silver Covenant absolutely went overboard, though. No question there. Feeding people to sharks? There isn’t a scenario where that’s morally clear. Granted, I think that’s part of what makes High Elves appeal to some players? The Alliance in general is so squeaky clean in terms of morality that it was kind of refreshing seeing such blatantly evil actions for a change.
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They are, they renamed themselves after the Scourge Invasion of Quel’thalas in honor of their fallen to Blood Elves.