The Legacy of the Blue Eyes
Blood Elven Death Knight and Void Elves Cannot Replace High Elves
One way to deny playable high elves is saying that the request can be fulfilled by the blue eyes of blood elf death knights, or by the Alliance void elves. That’s an argument from those that think that people want high elves for purely aesthetic reasons.
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Requests for playable high elves do include the blue eyes, of course. But high elf fan motivations do not end there. High elven eyes are just a part of the narrative, and the narrative is what the players really ask for.
The fans want to play as the race that has sided with dwarves and humans to create the Alliance. They want to be the elves that refused dark magic and corruption, resisted the pain of magical addiction and never left their original allies, even if that meant exile from their own lands.
They are not looking just for the model or just the blue eyes. They want to be backed by in-game events and lore. They want to fight side-by-side with the Silver Covenant, they want to see the NPCs acknowledging them. They want to see the continuation of the high elf story, and to be part of it.
And that’s impossible by just being a death knight, or even a void elf.
