Canceled Apocalypse
Azrael denies the most common argument against High Elves, the generalization saying that High Elves as just a “mirror copy” of Blood Elves. With this arguing, he refuses the argument that try to end the High Elven requests.
They’re only a “mirror copy” if you’re totally lacking in imagination. Prior to being playable, Blood Elves looked nearly identical to Night Elves. The first Sylvanas model was essentially a Night Elf. When they became playable, all of a sudden they started to look different. Likewise, the Dark Iron Dwarves were basically a slight recolor of existing Bronzebeard Dwarf models. But now that they’re becoming playable, they’ll likewise be seeing far more differences. In the same vein, High Elves can receive some changes to make them even more distinguishable from Blood Elves than Void Elves. This has been discussed ad nauseum in this thread. Your failure to acknowledge that doesn’t mean that it’s not true, or an option that Blizzard could easily pursue if they choose to make playable High Elves. Just as they found a way to make Nightborne different enough from Night Elves that they were able to stick Night Elves on the Horde.
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There is if they’ve already weaned themselves off arcane magic while Blood Elves became mana vampires (Something which only Blood Elves learned how to do, not High Elves), and some have turned away from magic use entirely.
And yet they haven’t reintegrated, and despise each other more than ever, because the differences ARE that profound. 15 years is a lot when the changes become that profound, and there’s no common ground between the two. Look at real world history for a hint of that. There are people of the same nation who’d kill each other over political differences which didn’t exist five, ten, fifteen years ago. Your lack of a rebuttal speaks more to your inability to see just how vast the schism has developed between the two.
Yes, because while the Void Elves embrace the void, at least they’re not embracing Orcs, the hated enemy of the High Elves from the previous wars, Trolls, the hated historical enemy of the High Elves who nearly drove them into extinction, and Forsaken, who are the very same Scourge members who also nearly drove the High Elves into extinction, while betraying long time allies likes the Humans, who helped save them from extinction in the Troll Wars, and the Wildhammer Dwarves. Not to mention the Blood Elves, themselves, who’ve leaned into their addictions and became mana vampires while the High Elves moved away from that. Yeah, in comparison to them, the Void Elves are far more acceptable. Never mind the fact that Void Elves, at most, number a few dozen, and are just a drop in the bucket in comparison to High Elf numbers. Whereas the Blood Elves, which most High Elves find to be morally repugnant, outnumber them 9-to-1. And they also share being exiles from Quel’thalas as a common trait.
Authorship of this text by Azrael@Emerald Dream
