What was it you said earlier
Over here talking about “Danuser said she doesn’t care she considers herself an Alliance Elf” lol what
The hoops to jump through to not be a Void Elf because they know its not a High Elf in the sense Blood Elves are lol.
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As Mag said, Alleria refers to herself as ren’dorei in the intro quest.
Your dedication inspires all who bear the name ren’dorei–for we have become children of the Void.
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Yeah but why would they?
High Elves have been in Alliance territory hanging since Vanilla. They’re the representation of the Alliance in Suramar, they hang with you in Northrend during Wrath.
So if you’re an Alliance player then there is a lot of reason to rp as a High Elf… and Blizzard gave Void Elves High Elf customizations and said that players can do what they want.
So that’s going to happen.
You don’t have that on Horde side. Night Elves and Orcs have been duking it out since Warcraft 3.
So why would you want to roleplay a Night Elf Horde side that wasn’t a dark ranger? What would you even do?
That doesn’t mean that Nightborne aren’t Night Elves or the Horde didn’t receive Night Elves when they got Nightborne. Nightborne are just different culturally from Night Elves.
High Elves are different culturally from Blood Elves. The old WoW encyclopedia stated that explicitly.
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This is another reason I don’t like Void Elves. They’re so poorly defined. If any elf that uses void magic is a, ‘Void Elf,’ like Alleria for example, then any elf Shadow Priest is a Void Elf, and not just the ones that got dipped in the purple goo. It invalidates an entire spec for at least Blood Elves.
Void Elf lore was extremely poorly written and never expanded on.
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And?
Ren’dorei is a group name too. That doesn’t make Vereesa a Silver Covenant.
and there are tweets by the lead story developer saying she doesn’t consider herself a Void Elf.
Yeah, but none of that means we need void elf paladins.
Even if you take the options as strictly for high elf RP, why would we get a whole class just for RP? Especially when there aren’t that many high elf paladins in the world anyway? Most high elves are rangers or mages.
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Mag is always right w High Elf lore tbh
I’m glad it got pointed out Alleria doesn’t consider herself a High Elf anymore.
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Ren’dorei is literally Thalassian for void elf. (Well, children of the void, but in Common that comes out as void elf as per translation tradition)
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Actually every Void elf is a NOT wannabe a Blood Elf, that is specifically why they are Void Elves.
We need some Void Elf Paladins.
This is why.
Lorewise: Blizzard told you that you can use those customizations to play the High Elf that you want. Well. High Elves have Paladins so you may want to be a Paladin.
Mechanically: You can play a Void Elf Holy Priest mechanically. So, they can cast light magic. You can argue that they can’t seperate the spec from the class. That’s fine. That’s a lore argument. So, see above ^ Blizzard said you can play a High Elf on Void Elf. They can already do light based things mechanically.
Also, maybe you want to play a Void Elf / High Elf and Paladins just wreck in Mythic + so it’s time for them to let us do it.
Plus, Ion’s into it now.
That’s because most of the budget goes into developing these npc’s than they do on the actual races themselves.
There is a huge difference between night elfs and nightborne visually, surprising that many people don’t know this.
nightborne males are an abomination, they look so weird honestly.
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Class options are used to reflect culturally appropriate selections for a race. There are High Elf Paladins out there lorewise, so there isn’t a reason a race players are meant to be able to use to play as High Elves would lack that class.
Granted I’m more of a, ‘just let any race be any class,’ kind of person at this point anyways. There’s so much overlap between various powers lorewise that nothing stops making sense anymore. We’ve now got literal death druids, for example. That’s about as much of an oxymoron as void elf paladins would be, except I don’t think anyone advocating for Void Elf Paladins actually means for it to be representative of the Void-corrupted elves having Paladins.
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and Lightforged Draenei are the backbone of the Army of Light. So, I guess Turalyon is a Draenei?
How about you tell me how Alleria can introduce you to the army she leads without saying their name?
Lightforged Draenei Death Knights man…
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Right now the closest thing you got is undead night elves that joined the horde in bfa. And the moonguard elves that helped the nightborne in Legion.
We have not gotten equal treatment in oppurtunity like void elves got to rp the other side, nor similar ancestors.
The highborne is probably the closest situation to high elves, yet those options arent bifactional.
Nor did nightborne get all NE skin tones like VE.
The story also had the night elf dark rangers go to calia when she is alliance leading to believe they will leave the forsaken snd the horde as well for the alliance. Sira moomwarden is also a prisoner given to the alliance by the horde.
The high elves were a small population, if the horde got similar treatment we probably should get horde humans actually the most popular alliance race due to the humans that helped the horde in the 4th war. Like fogsail humans.
Will blizzard do that? Doubt it.
Also, for people who don’t understand the backlash of void elfs. Imagine horde getting light draenei, imagine how upset alliance players would be.
Just building off of Sir Zeliek and Calia Menethil, really.
No, but it still would. And void elves are the primary, since that’s the race name, and what the racials and quotes are all themed around. Pretty much the only possibly worse combo than a Void infused Light wielding Paladin would be a Mag’har Demon Hunter.
I’d be down with this tbh.
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Speaking for myself, it wouldn’t bother me at all. I’m less interested in what the other side gets to play, and more interested in what my side gets to play. The Horde could get Titans as a playable race and I honestly wouldn’t care. Good for them.
Why not? The Horde already has humans with the Forsaken. Why not add customizations for Nathanos/Derek Proudmoore options, with less rot, like Calia?
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Probably because of the strong Orcs Vs Humans that the Horde Vs Alliance dynamic has. It was basically in the first game’s title after all.