You know what I think they’d find even more insulting?
Pretending that their honoring of the dead is somehow those elves abandoning their past and the sacrifice of all those who died to Arthas’ Scourge.
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All good, its marked as a reply to me.
They chose to be Bloodelves and nolonger are High elves. Again they are the same race but they are not the same thing. Blood elves are not High elves, there is a clear distinction that has been establised so we can tell them appart. Being the same race dosen’t not mean they are the same thing, just a Gilneans are not Kul’tirans just because they are both humans. The race is elf, but they are two seperate factions of the same race. You simply are not a high elf if you are a bloodelf. you are a bloodelf.
Now saying that if you make a bloodelf with the new blue eye customisations and decide your character was one of the Silver Covinant who has decided to return home after the war to be with their bloodelf familly, that character would be a high elf (not a blood elf because they are a different thing) which is the whole point of the new customisations.
First of all you’re taking the word ‘drink’ literally, if I go out side and drink in some sunlight, I’m not literally getting a straw and sucking juice out of the sun…
Secondly…
https://i.imgur.com/Vvc8JI2.jpg
This is going on in the middle of Silvermoon.
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It’s way off in a corner, there’s no dialogue from the NPCs there, and that one NPC does not have a casting bar to say what it is that he is doing. As Silvermoon is stuck in early/mid BC timeline (since it is post Kael stealing the windchime) they were still using crystals to maintain the buildings so it is more likely that that elf is doing something related to that task, and not some sort of fel feeding that has been explicitly declared not a thing.
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High Elf is both a species/genus name for Thalassian Elves and a political alignment. Hence why Blizzard said that Blood Elves are High Elves—Biologically they are.
But we have people falling all over themselves trying to argue with that because they don’t get it.
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Exactly as you say, it can be a political alignment which is where they are indeed referred to differently ingame (such as that video)
Species wise they are definitely High Elves. That’s why I said a fair argument could be made either way based on what you’re looking at.
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This is false, go rewatch what Ion said.
“Blood elves are pretty much high elves”
as in they are very similar but not the same thing, like “warlocks are pretty much mages” See how that works?
They are biologically the same race, and have similarities hence the pretty much, but they are NOT the same thing, hence why there is a divide and why they are not the same thing.
Wasn’t it “Blood elves kinda are High elves” which in general use is usually used to mean, in this case “Blood elves are High Elves”
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Aríadníe you’re referring to them in the alignment sense in which case you’re correct.
Rialius has acknowledged that. By all means though, they look like them, live in their home Quel’thelas, have parents/relatives who are/were High Elves.
It’s your choice to exclusively see it as a political alignment.
No it isn’t, those were not his words, again, go rewatch it. he outright said “pretty much” in which he’s not wrong they are the same race and share the same history, but they are not the same thing.
The idea that they are different species because they have a different political alignment is both illogical and pure fan fiction.
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There’s actually two interviews.
The first is the one with the infamous “the Horde is waiting for you” comment. That’s the one you’re thinking of.
But then there’s one he did with a fan where he says:
Blood Elves are pretty much High Elves… Void Elves are also pretty much another flavor of High Elves
Because it is, beyond the minor fel corruption they are physically the same. But “high elf” is not the race, thats just a name the former highborne picked for themselves, and then half of them picked a new name.
To call a Bloodelf a ‘high elf’ is like spitting in the face of all their beleifs, spitting on their fallen and spitting on all the progress they have made since then. They are not High elves any longer.
Gotcha, still, that statement still seems to make it clear that both are types of high elf.
Agreed… wow… how nice is that! We agree on something! 
(I’m totally being serious here… this makes me happy)
So you think High Elves and Night Elves are the same?
The same race, techincally yes, they are both ‘elves’ infact, YOU could be my great grandson, that is 100% lore plausable.
But they are not the same thing, just as high elves and blood elves are not the same thing. Night elves are just even further removed.
Maybe in your headcanon they are the same but they’re clearly not.
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So are you denying that its possible that a bloodelf could be the grandson of a Night elf?
I’m telling you that you are wrong.
High Elves are a species/genus.
Blood Elves are that species/genus.
Void Elves are that species/genus.
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