[A-RP] The Silver Covenant - Rise of the Quel'Dorei

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The Silver Covenant - Rise of the Quel’Dorei

The history is a tale as old as time. Seven and a half thousand years. The destruction of Quel’Thalas is a story repeated and learned and studied…but the people are not gone. Nay…not yet.

A remnant of a remnant of a race we are called…perhaps…but we are not gone yet. Led by the Ranger-General, our people will rise again. Veressa and Alleria have shepherded our people through many ills and dangers and wars and troubles…and we shall hold true to our loyalty and our pride to reclaim the greatness that has been stolen from us.

The Covenant has fought the Scourge and the Legion…the Trolls and the Nightborne…and now our reputation will forever precede us. But we cannot wane in our commitment to the deliverance of our People. Rejoining the Alliance as an active people, now the Wars are over, is the only way to secure our future.

The Silver Accord

The Silver Covenant is the unofficial governing body of the Quel’Dorei left on Azeroth following the destruction of Quel’Thalas during The Fall. A militant faction of the Quel’dorei that remain dedicated to the preservation of their culture, heritage and people. Largely removed from the governance of the Alliance, the conclusion of the Wars has given new purpose to a selection of the Elves…and they seek reemergence within the Alliance.

The Silver Accord will be the unofficial designation given to the Elves of the Covenant sent to the Human Kingdoms by the Covenant once the Fourth War had concluded. With the War at an end, the Quel’Dorei felt it was time to take stock and track down wayward Elves and discover the true toll that the wars had wrought upon their population.

The Covenant’s presence outside of Dalaran these days is limited and it was felt their presence and existence was coming into doubt by the rest of the Alliance. There are after all…so few of us left. The Accord was formed to represent the Covenant in the Eastern Kingdoms and aid and act in consort with the wider Alliance governance to the betterment of the Alliance and her peoples.

The Accord will contain ONLY Quel’Dorei and Half Elves on a selected basis. We are holding true to the cultural beliefs of the Quel’Dorei - those which caused the split all those years ago. The divisions of all the Children of Quel’Thalas cannot be healed overnight and we intend to RP their consequences to the fullest.

Ranks
The Accord is modelled on the Silver Covenant and thus we borrow from and combine the variety as follows. All members of the Accord -are- members of the Silver Covenant. Fully fledged descriptions will be released in an update.

Ranger-Captain
Quartermaster
Lieutenant
Paragon
Guardian
Ranger
Warden
Aspirant
Custodian

I want to stress that Elves who choose to join us will typically have a background and be given a rank that fits into that. Conscript will NOT be the starting rank for those who join unless that is the RP they wish to engage in as a Silver Covenant ‘trainee’, as it were.

Any Half Elves will typically, however, enter at the Conscript rank unless there is significant and convincing background to that character’s history with the Covenant.

OOC:

  • Early concept development for militant Quel’Dorei roleplay under the Silver Covenant banner. (More to come - watch this space :wink: )
  • The Silver Accord is to the Silver Covenant what the Kirin-Tor Offensive is to the Kirin-Tor.
  • Looking to engage with the wider Alliance a lot. Breathe some life into old Alliance of Lordaeron vibes.
  • Very eager to hear about how other High Elf RPers wish to develop the community and how we can adapt and incorporate other elements that people would like to explore.
  • Please comment or get in touch in-game if this is something you’ve been hoping would crop up!

UPDATE 11/06:
Reading and discussing with many people in the forum has given birth to some new ideas for the Accord and what we would like it to become.

Whilst the Silver Covenant remains a military organisation - the Accord will look at incorporating many elements of Quel’Dorei RP that include but are not limited to;

  • Diplomatic and Civilian RP
  • Archaeological, Magical and Historic storylines to stretch our knowledge of lore and our own imaginations.

If there are others that you can think of that might fit - I’m all ears!

As Erindral mentioned further down in this post - we are looking to build a civilization for the Quel’Dorei using the Silver Covenant as a bedrock to grow and develop as a community.

The Quel’Dorei are not a People limited to a region or a singular area. They are a global race, found all across Azeroth. It is not my wish to box this guild or its members into a Lodge in the Hinterlands (which we will still spend time at).

But the Silver Covenant are going global.

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Nice to see other Quel’dorei guilds popping up :slight_smile:

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So it begins…

Good luck to you guys as well

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Sounded awesome until

I can’t see a reason to play a half elf except for being a snowflake, and there is no elven organisation (afaik) that accepts them :woman_shrugging:

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Hey - thanks. And yeah I’m emphasising the selected basis point on this one. I recognise the upsides (and dangers) of having such a narrow field of view for a guild. I’m not sure yet on what capacity, if at all, we’d be open to Half Elves, but i didn’t want to discount it so early on or alienate that aspect of Elven RP. Really open to everyone’s thoughts on it :grinning:

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Sounds like a neat guild! Best of luck! :smiley:

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I doubt you’ll have much issues generating interests with just Helf RP alone with the upcoming models. No need for Half-elves at all to “pad numbers”.

I mean it’s plausible that SC may view them more favourably due to the whole relations with alliance thing, but the few examples we have of half-elves (4) is that all of them had a rough upbringing because both of their parent races (aside from their parents) in general treated them really badly.

I many game lores half-elves are seen as creatures of perfect beauty or whatnot. In typical blizzard style they seem to have turned that on it’s head by making them extremely uncommon and looked at repellently by their parent races, which probably increases the taboo of humans and elves having children (not to mention it’s supposed to be very difficult for humans and elves to have children together, it very rarely results in a pregnancy apparently).

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Interesting points to consider about the canon around Half Elves having broken upbringings. But we have Veressa and Rhonin to consider about SC view on Half Elves (given Veressa’s own children :stuck_out_tongue:).

My leaning on this matter is not to discount Half Elf RP out of hand and to consider them on a case-by-base basis about whether it would truly make sense for a particular Half Elf to align with the Covenant.

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Sounds like a great guild! wish the best of luck with this guild and hope you guys will have a good blast in shadowlands expantion! :star:

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They were lucky being born by high standing elf mothers who apparently have a thing for humans. Alodi was left in an orphanage and was bullied, lucky for him he turned out to be an awesome mage. Half elves are more than a rare thing and looked down upon by all (except maybe their parents).

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All true. Half Elves would in my eyes not be in the Covenant…but in a tag-along fashion with the guild in a lesser capacity. That’s where I saw it in my head when I wrote that line in at least :confused:. But then I think about Veressa’s children and if they’d ever be denied entry into the Covenant…and what would that mean for other half elves?

As I say…all early concept development and I appreciate everyone’s thoughts and ideas!

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Half-Elves have been a part of AD since the start, and I doubt they’re going anywhere. Having a guild where they’re welcome could be nice for people that want the half-elf DnD fantasy but always get labelled “badrp” by virtue of existing. Not saying all half-elves are great RPers, just that no concept is really terrible by default, and I’ve met a lot of decent half-elf RPers.

My recommendation is to very much go case-by-case. Half-elves will and do attract snowflake RPers, so see what they’re doing with it. An isolated half-breed ranger who was abandoned by both societies and so took to a life alone? Neat. A half-elf paladin who is ethereally beautiful and everyone loves their little ears? Eh.

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Should play DnD

Anyways, regardless of what I think of half elves, good luck with the guild OP, it’s a great concept and I think it’s nice to see some Quel’dorei guilds coming up :slightly_smiling_face:

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Both is possible. Half-elves exist in this setting. You can hate it all you want, but Blizzard has included the possibility, and “anything is possible with magic”. Bit far fetched to presume that there’s only four in existence; The Well of Eternity may have said none were recorded prior to Giramar and Galadin, but the fact Arator existed before them disproves this off the bat.

They’re rare (as are void elves, likely numbering in the hundreds at most), but to say they’re impossible/only four in existence is ridiculous when you consider how many mixed-race couplings we have in-game and in-lore. So long as they’re treated as rightfully rare, I don’t see the issue in letting people enjoy their concepts. It doesn’t harm you.

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Not really. Void elves are a playable race, soon High elves are ish as well, Half elves are not. The argument that there’s probably more than four in lore is headcanon for those who wants to play a Half elf for some reason, it’s not the same thing in WoW like it is in other fantasy worlds.

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Because the concept can be very intriguing. The fact that half-elves are rejected by both elven and human society makes them more akin to a DnD’s half-orc, and it comes with so many interesting possibilities. There’s the fact that, unlike other settings like the Elder Scrolls, they have no society of their own, and each half-elf is an individual case.

There’s also ageing. Having elven blood, they’d live longer than humans, but not as long as elves. There’s a lot of good story possibilities for a jaded half-breed who has been rejected by both families, watched all their friends grow old and die off, and wants nothing to do with either side as a result.

I understand you’re likely just thinking about Stormwind half-elf Archmages that are basically just pretty pointy humans, but the concept on its own is very interesting in this universe. Tarring all half-elves with the same brush is a narrow-minded decision, but truthfully I suppose both you and the player are better off for it.

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I think this isn’t the best place to discuss about Half elves. Go somewhere else. This is guild thread

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There is interesting concepts to play with half-elves, that is true. But I must say, I still have yet to see someone play those concepts, mostly I see a lot of twenty something half-breed who let me wonder what the hell kind of elf/human factory happened twenty years ago.

In any case, good luck with the guild! My own high elf is not in the Covenant, but if people visit the Hinterlands, he’s there sometimes.

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The subject was brought up, and it’s a valid discussion towards the guild concept. :man_shrugging: Though I don’t think there’s much else to say on the topic.

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Okay I can buy that, I still find it snowflakey but if someone pulls that idea off, at least it shows a thought behind it more than “prettier more long lived human”. I mean, I’ve seen half elf - half worgen…

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