I’ve been reading the quest text while loremastering Eversong Woods and the Ghostlands, and I’ve run into a couple of characters mentioning that it’s high time they leave this world and go to Outland without much context after that.
I’ve been looking around and can’t seem to find an answer as to why Outland seemed more appealing than where they were at this point during the Burning Crusade. Some Blood Elves, like the questgiver in the Scorched Grove, are most interested in staying and fending off the Scourge to revitalize Eversong Woods as it is their home.
Is it just because of Kael’thas? Or does anyone know why else some Sin’dorei wanted to leave behind Azeroth for Outland?
Because of Kael’thas, yes. He was reportedly trying to help get a more permanent magic to his people until he went coocoo for cocopuffs.
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Thank you!! I forgot that they were looking for something to sustain their magic addiction, but I’m still a little confused on why they thought Outland might be better for doing that since it was destroyed?
It’s because Outland was blasted halfway into the twisting nether, so that place of chaotic magics constantly colliding and twisting is right there. You can see it most easily in the Netherstorm where the elves have giant machines sucking the magic from the very realm.
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I never got the full timeline of how Blood Elves went from utter destruction.
To rebuilding Silvermoon.
(Quelthelas & Ghostlands questline)
Outland Intro.
Shattarath (We learn Kaelthas betrayed us?)
Full on war with Kaelthas.
Many setbacks later.
Sunwell healed and Blood Elf worries of becoming mana crackheads averted.
That’s all I know and still unclear when they joined the Horde as full members in this timeline and specifically why.
It seemed to vary from elf to elf. I remember a magistrix in Eversong who’s looking into healing the Dear Scar, but despairs when her experiments fail and says she wants to just run away and start anew on Outland. Others, like Lor’themar and Liadrin and basically every NPC in the Ghostlands, had a more “this is our land and we will reclaim every inch of it” attitude.
Chronicles put an interesting spin on this. As bad as things were in the ruins of Quel’Thalas, Kael’thas went from disaster to disaster on Outland, and eventually the (playable) blood elf leaders decided the whole pilgrimage to reunite with him was a fool’s errand, that Kael’s place was back home with his people. They tried contacting him, sending him messengers with news of how the Sunwell could be restored - all good reasons to give him hope and bring him back - but Kael was already deep in Kil’jaeden’s pocket by then, and the latter had his agents intercept and kill them all to make sure his pawn stayed in the dark.
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Actually if you play Hordeside, you see it right at the beginning in Hellfire Peninsula with the group of Blood Elf Pilgrims at the Horde fortress practically in tears of joy at free mana available.
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Kael’thas went to Outlands to find an alternate source of energy to sustain his people. There he made a pact with with Lady Vashj and Illidan. Fel magic was a great alternate source to arcane. He actually cared for his people and technically saved the Blood Elves. This is why their eyes turned from blue to green. Blizzard ruined his character with their garbage storytelling.
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I’m shocked no one mentioned it, but the reason is WC3: The Frozen Throne, the Blood Elves are all but forced to ally with the Illidan-alligned Naga because of Garithos. You play a tower-defense mission evacuating the Blood Elves to Outland while under attack from Garithos and his “Alliance” forces.
Also the Blood Elves are still aligned with Kael’thas at the beginning of TBC which is when the Ghostlands and Silvermoon zones take place. It isn’t until you get to Netherstorm that you find out Kael’thas betrayed them. Also TBC didn’t have linear-storytelling the way modern WoW does so some things are lost in translation.
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Basically the blood elves were very dependent on magic to sustain themselves. The sunwell at the time was arcane magic.
After the scourge destroyed the sunwell, they went into some bad withdrawls, and went in search of new magic to sustain themselves. Hence the green eyes due to the fel magic and the various fel crystals you see by various blood elf buildings in quel’thalas (to my understanding they also used magic to sustain their buildings too).
Kael’thas was their beloved prince at the time so many wanted to follow him as also things were very bad in quel’thalas. They ended up captureing a narru and using that in quel’thalas for awhile, and eventually at the of BC ended up re igniteing the sunwell with a dying narru. The sunwell is now like half holy energy and half arcane energy.
Also fel magic was wayyyy more juicy and addactive and outland was thought to have a near unlimited supply of this.
Also prolly something to do with the belves beging abandoned by the alliance.
Some suggested reading i would have is this
Arthas (book)- fall of quel’thalas (more so the last 3rd of the book)
Lady liridans lore
Kael’thas lore
Lor’themar lore
Sunwell raid lore
Kael’thas is also mentioned in before the storm and you can see his reaction when he finds out quel’thalas has fallen.
There is probably somethings i forgot too.
As those have probably more interesting and have more details then how I have phrased it.
Also, BC lore was pretty terrible. I believe the story is they didn’t know how long WoW would last so they just threw every big name in WoW as a raid boss willy nilly
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First, most of Quel’thalas is destroyed in the Third War.
Then Kael’thas joins Illidan and the Naga in Outland after the Garithos stuff.
They go to Outland and meet back up, Kael’thas leaving Lor’themar in charge in the meanwhile.
After some time, Kael’thas secretly betrays Illidan and joins Kil’jaeden, keeping it hidden. Travels to Netherstorm with his army, takes Tempest Keep, uses it to send M’uru to Quel’thalas. This creates the Blood Knight order and has people teaching siphoning.
It was at this point we have the Quel’thalas and Ghostlands introduction. Which includes joining the Horde at the end.
Then the reopening of the Dark Portal not all that long after. And when they reach Shattrath, learn of his siding with the Legion. Raid on Tempest Keep. Then later the Sunwell stuff.
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It wasn’t garbage story telling they were already beyond cripplingly addicted to arcane magics add in the stronger more addicting fel magic To someone like Kael thas wielding enormous amounts of it your going to succumb to immense levels of corruption because that’s what fel magic does it corrupts it was great and logical story telling
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