The Untouched Elves
What the High Elves cannot be found on Blood Elves, and this is what matter in the playable High Elven discussion
Y ou are right, Blood Elves are High Elves. Void Elves are High Elves. But High Elves are neither of these two. We don’t want to change that, and that is exactly why were are calling for them to be their own Playable Race. While they all come from the same Origins, High Elves that are with the Alliance are the ones that are unchanged by Magical tampering and Addiction to the point of vampirism. This is also why they are vastly different from Blood Elves and Void Elves. Their lore, their stories, have taken a different route in their society.
While the Blood Elves chose to siphon from Fel and Living things, their eyes became tainted green. They became vastly more addicted to draining thing making them more like Vampires. High Elves Morally stood against this, and we’re Exile because Lor’themar could not lead a divided nation.
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Void Elves were Blood Elves, that tampered further in the ways of the void. Wanting to use this power against the void itself and accidentally became what they are at almost the cost of them becoming completely different. They too became Exiled, because they were now a threat to the Sunwell.
No matter what, this the way the lore has been written. And like it or not, Blood Elves and Void Elves are High Elves, but High Elves are not either of those.
And if you want to speak about eye color, sure I can do that too. High Elves eyes are not just blue. They are violet, and amber, and emerald dark green. They do not glow like that of the energies that were produced by the Fel and now the Holy light of the Sunwell. The gold is the Light in the Sunwell, and if you want your blue eyes on Blood Elves too, take them. I am sure that if they pulled on Arcane they would change to Blue, but pull too much and then you’re wretched.
Either way, it doesn’t diminish what is already established in lore. Blood Elves are Horde, and while they are High Elves, they are not the High Elves they once were. High Elves are on the Alliance, untouched by the surges of Fel magic, and vampiric additions. They have a magic addiction that they cope with in more moral ways.
Authorship of this text by Arathuron@Moon-Guard
