A people deeply divided
The thalassian schism is the best storyline about a divided people that Blizzard has ever done
Since the void elves have taken a new path, moving away from the story of Quel’thalas, the high elves continue to represent the Alliance in the thalassian conflict. The void elves have no interest in Quel’thalas or the Sunwell, but the high elves do.
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The exile of the high elves from Silvermoon was not the beginning of the thalassian schism. This division started when the kingdom of Quel’thalas left the Alliance of Lordaeron after the Second War.
“The blood elves (high elves then) made diplomatic choices that isolated them, and that may have being part of why Silvermoon fell -if the alliance had stuck together, they all would have had a better chance of defeating the Burning Legion- This had large repercussions, it created a schism within Thalassian society, elves that considered the humans their allies after the war that banded them together, elves that had lived on human nations, specially Dalaran, for years, wouldn’t follow a royal decree to abandon their allies.”
— Talendrion@Wyrmrest Accord
Many of the elves that fought for the Alliance looked down on Silvermoon’s isolationism with sadness.
Meanwhile, the elves in Silvermoon, living away from the Alliance, couldn’t see it working to defend their lands. All they could see was their kingdom’s resources being spent to keep the Alliance active. Then, when these elves were forced to work together with the Alliance again, all they saw was Garithos, a man that does not represent the Alliance’s races at all.
When we look upon the conflict between high and blood elves, we notice that Blizzard has never made any other story about a people so deeply divided as this.
