During the Sundering, the Kaldorei empire spanned almost all of Ancient Kalimdor. Why is it, then, that no Night Elves ended up in the Eastern Kingdom? Most of the Night Elves we’ve seen are in Kalimdor or the Broken Isles, but why none in EK?
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Because the Night Elves that ended up in the Eastern Kingdoms became the High Elves in Quel’Thalas, and later become the Blood Elves.
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The night elf empire didn’t have too much reach in what would become the Eastern Kingdoms. Presumably they lost that territory and were forced out during the War of the Ancients.
While the Well of Eternity was imploding there was a mass exodus of all night elves to Mt. Hyjal because it was one of the few places that was actually safe. It was also a sacred site to them. Suramar was already behind their shield so they were protected. That’s why they collectively settled in Kalimdor afterwards and made that their home.
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They did… a very small group of them settled in Gilneas… and died off there… but not after leaving their mark on the Humans of the area.
There’s also a World Tree called Seradane surrounded by Night Elf ruins in the Aerie Peaks but the resident Night Elves vanished with out a trace. There’s also a clearly Kal’dorei made grove in Darkshore, possibly made by the same group that dwelled in the lands that would be called Gilneas.
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There are some in the Wet Lands that went to settle by the Greenwarden back in Cata.
I don’t recall any of that.
Now I’m not sure about the ruins there but those trees were planted a few thousand years after the wota to stop the spread of Sarionite. I don’t think the elves actually lived there.
the worgens started from night elves using the forbidden druid wolf form and they ended up biting humans… which thus created the curse and those night elves were exiled or dead from using such forbidden magic. the feral instincts were too much for the druids and they basically went crazy. They either left or died.
True but those druids didn’t settle in Gilneas. They were banished to the Emerald Dream some 9k years prior to W1 and were summoned back to Azeroth by Archmage Argual to help fight the scourge. But as we see now, that plan backfired.
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thats right, thank you for sorting that. I knew the basics but not detailed timeine or where they ended up.
The Night Elf who recruits Hunters into the Unseen Path actually aided Quel’thalas during an Amani invasion which I thought was kinda neat. Emmarel Shadewarden.
Tal’doren was not planted by them to our knowledge, especially since it was a mystery to them when Cenarius revealed it to Malfurion. The Druids of the Pack all happened in Ashenvale, and the Druids of the Scythe were banished to the Dream, and it was not until about thirteen years ago in the timeline that they were released. To my knowledge, the area of Gilneas was never colonized by elves. Gnolls and Trolls, on the other hand, did occupy the area before the rise of the Arathi human empire.
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Most of them probably became high elves, which had enormous troubles with carving a place out for themselves with the Amani trolls. So, probably something along the lines of they didn’t settle up there to begin with because it was troll-occupied, and by the time they managed to establish their little kingdom, it was after the Sundering, and they were beginning to degenerate into high elves.
You mean evolve into a people that could build proper cities instead of growing antlers and living in trees.
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To be fair, it was the kaldorei that built the first proper cities, relying on arcane. In short, it was this that brought the Burning Legion to Azeroth. After Azeroth just barely survived, the night elves decided “oh hey, maybe sapping energy from the world’s veins isn’t great”, and turned back to nature.
Those that refused were banished, and ended up shrinking. They tought the humans how to use magic, who then built their own civilization sapping energy from the world’s veins. Which, guess what, isn’t great. Thus the Legion’s second invasion. This time, with orcs.
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