i want fae gnomes. handsomer nelf males with their original run animation. smaller female nelf hands. morticia addams black hair style on velf females. half elves based on high elves and humans, to include asian, african and caucasian skin/face/hair with shorter elf ears and shorter elf eyebrows. chances are, i wont get a single one of those requests.
Can I ask why high elves are so hate as a new race??? The blood elves seem to have their culture focused on blood with the blood knights and blood golems and their name even having blood in it. High elves feel more arcane and nature. They Also feel really different in the isle of thunder when you see them working with the kirin’tor. Honestly I want the kirin’tor to be an allied race for the alliance.
oh my vardell. you are gonna need a flack jacket for the incoming. scratch that, you’ll need a bunker, ideally on another planet, encased in a protective forcefield.
blood magic is simply a new toy. you forgot devotion to the light, a strong body of farstriders and some of the strongest arcane magic users on the planet. ALL of which describe blood elves. all alliance high elves(a few individuals) offer is the same, but on the blue side. if you want to play a certain race in a faction based game, the faction is part of that package and blood elves(high elves) are horde
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The original post breaks it down prety well.
Uhm… By your reasoning wouldn’t you mean that they are more focused on high? Blood Elves are a political group of high elves, focused on light, arcane, and sort of nature (in the same ways as other high elves). They renamed themselves to ‘blood’ to honor those that died in the fall of Silvermoon. Those that didn’t had already integrated into other culture, were racists and rejected the Horde, or were so obsessed with purity they turned on their own people for using fel as a battery and mana taping animals.
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You’re a little less friendly today.
You mean didn’t want to side with a group that had attacked them in the past, and were Alliance leaning because of the places they’d immigrated to?
They don’t have to be racists.
Unless you have a source that actually confirms this part?
Different group, but they have Orcs in common.
There is no source one way or the other, that interpretation is perfectly valid and fair. Under no reasonable interpretation are Alliance high elves some perfectly noble group.
While I agree with you in part, Thrall inherited the Horde from Orgrim Doomhammer. That’d be enough for me. Orcs and Goblins who were involved as well had both attacked them in the past. Why trust them now?
There is no source, then its just an assumption. Its fan-fiction.
EDIT: Also Trolls wouldn’t be top of the list given their history either. Jungle or Forest.
Why trust the humans of the Alliance with who they had little relationship with, split from, and were nearly wiped out by when they were at their weakest. Heck, Arthas was a major Alliance figure. In their time of need the Horde helped them.
It’s fan-fiction which ever way you want to spin it. They are a completely under developed niche piece of the story left wide open to interpretation. However, under no interpretation are they some noble group, and the Silver Covenant least of all.
Speaking of racism, Trolls are not a monolith and Silvermoon and Dark Spear Trolls actually have common enemies. People who argue for Alliance high elves always hate racism being brought up as a motivation then make the argument to confirm it.
Other than one of their great heroes who fell in defense of their kingdom coming to their aid and offering them a place in the alliance (alliance in the sense that the horde was an alliance of different nations) with her?
…And the same humans who turned on them had enslaved those orcs.
Oh, and an Alliance of humans, dwarfs, and high elves is overplayed. This version is better.
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No arguments there, but it seems everyone forgets what Sylv used to be when they try and say the blood elves shouldn’t have trusted the horde
Why shouldn’t they, they previously allied with the Naga.
Hmm. Show your work? I’m curious.
No, I’ll grant you, Garithos and Arthas would definitely give me pause too.
That said the High Elves already in various Alliance settlements likely hold their allegiances to their homes (those alliance settlements) rather than to Quel’Thalas. Thus they stayed.
Want to be clear we both agree here. 
I meant in the same way with the Orcs. They’d had years of conflict with them. Why trust your enemies?
And -that- said, once they met and worked with the Darkspear I’m certain that would fall away almost immediately.
This is why it ends up working for Silvermoon. My point is that the High Elves in the Alliance areas have effectively moved there. They wont necessarily keep their full allegiance to Silvermoon, and might adopt similar values to those places, OR see the value in the Blood Elves pragmatic survival narratives.
Terenas was specifically trying to keep them alive. The other bits were partially Deathwing mucking things about and the weakening of the Alliances hold on their own peoples loyalty. Whats his face who had Thrall wasn’t exactly trying to remain loyal.
Totes fair.
They occupy minor lore space, almost only in relation to Blood Elves. They are with the Alliance in the same way any race is with either faction. Unless you’re talking about them being ignoble? Purge of Dalaran.
I agree, that was one of the reasons I listed when you went after it.
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Well, it’s an interpretation, I’m not adding anything to it.
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Yeah that’s true. Interpretation not fan fiction. I just used fan fiction cause someone else called non sourced things that a couple days ago. Lol