What’s in a name
The difference between High Elves are Blood Elves
Among the falacies against high elves, there’s the case of Kael’thas renaming the elves after Third War. However, this is not something that prevents the Quel’dorei from being playable, and it can even be used to prove the legitimacy of the high elves in the Alliance. To explain this, we’ve this text from a Brazilian player:
“The question is, Blood Elves are the elves that siphoned living creatures, High Elves refused to do that and were even exiled from Quel’thalas.
Do not mistake the origin of the name Blood Elves, with the meaning of ‘Blood Elves’ as an ethnic group. Origin of the name, and the meaning of a ethnic group are two totally different things.
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The name of my country, ‘Brazil’, was inspired by a type of tree called ‘pau-brasil’. Nowadays, pau-brasil is almost extinct, so does that make us not Brazilians anymore? No, we still are Brazilians, because we come from the country, Brazil. The sense of what is ‘Brazil’ or ‘Be a Brazilian’ was established AFTER the creation of the name ‘Brazil’.
According to the history, in our first constitution, ‘POLITICAL CONSTITUTION OF THE EMPIRE OF BRAZIL’:
[Art. 1º Brazil is the political association of all Brazilian citizens. They will form a free and independent Nation, that does not accept any accordance with a kind of union or federation opposed to its independence.]
This is the original definition of what is Brazil, defined two centuries after the creation of its name; the name itself, ‘Brazil’ came from ‘land of pau-brasil’, defined around the year of 1500.
In the same fashion, Kael’thas established the name ‘Sin’dorei’, saying ‘And so I say to you that, as of this day, we are no longer high elves!’.”
Thus, when some elves refused to follow Kael’s new teachings, they also refused to be blood elves and remained Quel’dorei.
