That’s fine and all, but they still don’t call themselves “High Elves” anymore. That name, when used for talking about present day Elves, now refers to a different group of Elf.
And their biological race is just “Elf”, or perhaps more narrowly focused, “Thalassian,” as shown recently by Blizzard in various places, including the Blood Elf heritage armor questline. People can argue all they want that they’re the same race, but until you can show where it says the race is officially “High Elf”, that doesn’t mean anything.
get over it. the racial description on this damn site says it. if you cant accept the race as a whole is blood elf elf now then people will use high elf to refer to the race as a whole lmao. and you guys refuse to use thalassian as a catch all anyway because your position is so weak so dont ask others to do it. no one is going to cater to your fanficiton
I’m confused that people STILL think the alliance doesn’t have High Elves…
Did you seriously think all the High Elves ever were all in one place when Arthas attacked?
Yes a huge number of them got murdered, but only those that regrouped with Kael’thas and joined him became the “Blood Elves”, and even then only a small group of those actually went on to follow him and then join the Horde when Kael went awol.
There are plenty of High Elves in the Alliance, from NPC’s in game to the books.
San’layn do. Did you come into the middle of a conversation on San’layn and not even realize it?
So yes… Blood Elves were High Elves. They just renamed themselves. Not all of them did, though, and those ones left and scattered.
No… Void Elves were Blood Elves looking for a way to use the Void to protect Quel’thalas from another attack. They followed clues to the source and got kidnapped then nearly turned into Void monsters.
High Elves nosed around later to learn more about what happened.
Wrong. Some live in Stormwind. Not all are Alliance. And some are scattered.
Of those, there’s very few left compared Belfs. And they don’t have a cohesive culture anymore.
Wrong. Lore specifically tells us that. They’re High Elves who changed their name. They’re completely and entirely the same, aside from culture— which Helfs don’t even have anymore.
The race was High Elves. The ideology is Blood Elves.
What?
This is common knowledge and has been, as we even see scattered groups throughout the game.
Do you not know the lore? It’s right there on Wowpedia, all cited and referenced.
Here’s part of it:
However, a few high elves did not rename themselves blood elves. High elves and blood elves are physiologically the same race, and the difference between high and blood elves is only political.[13] When Quel’Thalas left the Alliance, some high elves chose to remain with their allies over their kingdom, and to this day still support the Alliance.[10]Some high elves were exiledfrom Quel’Thalas after the Third War.[14] Other high elf remnants have chosen to rejoin the Alliance in recent years, arriving to a cold reception.[2] Modern high elves are a rare sight, and are commonly mistaken for blood elves.[15][16] In consequence, there are very few high elves left on Azeroth today. High elves did not gather in any significant numbers and are a very small group of individuals. Indeed, modern high elves cannot even truly be said to have a culture—only a past filled with glory and regret.[2] As a people, the high elves are all but extinct: the remnants of the remnants of a fallen race.[17]
As others have said it was to honor the 90% that died to the scourge. Though they have always used a bit of blood magic to empower spells it was mostly just mages. The blood knights started to use blood magic to empower their seals and heals. Once the sunwell was restored blood magic was phased out.
If it seems like other people don’t understand lore as you do, this is why. Neither background story nor the events that take place during an expansion are ever presented in the game.
the only time we ever caught an updated look at quel’thalas, it was at the sunwell where we saw NPCs named “blood elf pilgrim” and “high elf pilgrim” hanging out and im pretty sure they just use their names unlike us
what hell are you trying to say!?
that no “high elves” live in quel’thalas? then leave a citation. ty
The refusal to rename was usually (as in one dope who was the exception wouldn’t be lore worthy) paired with an ideological objection to the political/philosophical direction being taken. Which, when there’s literally robots stomping around MIBing dissenters, would certainly be grounds for expulsion/voluntarily leaving.
