Nah. Because they’ve got an in game definition that everybody is aware of.
There are High Elves in Stormwind Mage District. There are High Elves at the Lodges around Lordaeron.
There is a WoW Encyclopedia entry for what a High Elf is. There is a WoW encyclopedia entry for what a Blood Elf is… and there are mentions of High Elves in chronicles after Blood Elves became a thing.
So basically Warcraft has a shared vocabulary and if you say, “The High Elves attacked <Insert World of Warcraft location here.” then literally everybody knows exactly what you’re talking about. (Though some Anti’s may say they don’t.)
There isn’t any confusion about it.
It’s a personal definition. It’s like referring to Americans as The British.
Anti’s have their own definition of High Elf that’s incompatable with World of Warcraft and the rest of the playerbase. Which is fine unless you’re having a discussion about things with people who aren’t in your in group.
The funny thing with the whole High Elf situation is if they would have actually gave us full on High Elves rather than Void Elves & their bonus customization, High Elves would have a bigger difference between High Elves & Blood Elves than we got with Void Elves & Blood Elves.
A lot of the fan concepts people had made for years or even just requested for gave High Elves a unique model. Or at the very least, a Nightborne situation where they had some tweaked animations. There was even lots of concepts to take High Elven culture a different way. Like with them even taking up Shamanism through the Highvale Hinterlands elves that abandoned arcane practice.
Would that definition be that we don’t need to change the lore to make it so a currently neutral group leaves their faction to join the alliance. In order to be the 3rd identical version of playable high elves?
Obviously when I talk about “high elves” I’m referring to the ones that actually call themselves high elves, and it gets annoying to have to disambiguate.
But at the same time, there are posters who try to claim Alliance high elves as the true Thalassian elves and paint blood elves in a negative light.
I think my answer is that door basically already closed and High Elves will be delivered through more customization options to Void Elves most likely. But I could be misunderstanding that word salad.
I feel like it’s just people being purposefully obtuse. WoW has a very clear definition that everyone understands outside of specific people on this forum.
Nah, I think it’s their defence against posters who try to claim Alliance high elves as the “true, pure Thalassians” while painting blood elves in a negative light.
