Could I get away with writing a female night elf druid? I know that after the Third War, kaldorei society lifted the strict gender roles and women can become druids and vice versa, but given that my character is roughly 200 years old (she appears to be in her early adult years) I’m not sure if that’s possible, as I would want for her to study druidism throughout her entire life.
However, I also heard that Val’sharah had less restrictions when it comes to gender roles, and because of this, I have her penned down as being born and raised in Val’sharah, but now lives a nomadic lifestyle to further her druidic studies, and since the Cenarion Circle didn’t allow females until recently, I thought she would have been taught by dryads or the druids in Val’sharah, because once again, Val’sharah had less restrictions with gender roles (or so I’ve heard), but I’m not sure if it will pan out correctly lore-wise.
A female night elf druid features in the original WoW cinematic so I’d say it’s pretty archetypal, even if it was canonically gender-segregated in the lore at one point in time.
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I think there is a thread about this very subject from few weeks ago.
Short answer, yes, you can, there have been female druids durig the long vigil and we have met some during questing. A 200 year old female druid is completely plausible.
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I think you resolved and answered your own issue, just say you’re from Val’sharrah.
Could you post the link to that thread, please?
I just checked, and the thread was yours, “Kaldorei gender roles”.
Dod you forget that? Or a new doubt arised?
Nelves are heavily conservative but in a way where bucking gender norms would be rare, not forbidden.
why couldn’t they be druids before
Anyone who thinks that female night elf druids are not “canon”, really needs to go backand wath the ORIGINAL cinematic for Vannlla Wow.
‘https://youtu.be/vlVSJ0AvZe0?si=ZURa-kHwxWAGbN22&t=69’
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ok sure that looks convincing but can we be sure she didn’t get polymorphed mid-run?
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You win the Flat Earth award for the hour. I always did wonder why she’s not fighting in animal form.
Of course I KNOW the real reason. 
For a long time that cinematic conditioned me into always be running or jumping off something when I transformed.
There’s actually no evidence for that conclusion. And given that we had a female Arch Druid as far back as Vanilla, only forum posters have made that statement.
You didn’t see them on screen because the devs wanted cinematics with female warriors in skimpy outfits and you don’t get that from druids fighting in animal form which is why you didn’t see that in the original vanilla cinematic. Instead we have the skimpy night elf female in melee with the massive Orc Warrior and we know how that is going to turn out.
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Oh yes, my mistake! Yeah, I did some further research on gender roles in kaldorei culture and I kept getting… Inconsistent answers. Some say they were retconned, that only recently they allowed women to become druids, etc… I just wanted to be specific about my character and be as accurate to lore as I possibly can.
Just tell a good story. Accuracy is like the cherry on top of a milkshake. I always throw away the cherry because I can’t stand them.
Here’s a hint; I’m not really interested in what your character did 10,000 years ago if she’s not interesting in the present. And if she’s engaging enough in the present, I might not need to know her past at all.
Blizz axed the gender restrictions for Druid but not really for priest, at least not in the same way. There are loads and loads and loads of female nelf druids, very few male nelf priests.
That’s because in Blizzard’s perception, main audience are still boys. But they’re starting to open their eyes just a bit.
We did get a squad of Night Elf beefcake in the invasion of Zandalar, one of the bright points of that debacle.
Really? I don’t really see scantily clad male sentinels as “for the girls” and I don’t think a silver white robe wearing male nelf priests of elune appeal to women at all what so ever. I think that hastily canonizing female nelf druids all the way back in vanilla, druids being a class that while I don’t have evidence I suspect is highly popular with women seems to me more so like appealing to women than loin cloth wearing male nelf sentinels, which I’m pretty sure at the time I saw a few women less than enthusiastic about for the sake of eye candy and more so mad that their cool female only warrior order and functional matriarchial society is being muddled up.
Why would you think that? For my part I don’t see evidence that any class has a particular gender preference among players. Class choice however may be affected by the social pressure that female players undergo in this hobby,
I’ve personally known a lot of female (nelf expecially) druids. It’s anecdotal and I’d love to see data but I doubt every single class is equally popular among both sexes and I’d say druid is a bit more popular with women than men.
Beware of anecdotes. You probably also think that the majority of the planet plays Alliance when it’s actually 2 to 1 Horde.