Inherently a lot of issues, for me, stem from the void elves’ recent extraordinary origins and how quite a few players put their avatars in exceptionally mundane roles.
It stretches my imagination to the breaking point, for example, that someone travelled through the cosmos to study the void on an actual planet sundered by Sargeras, became infused with the powers of the infinite to the point they can channel it directly, forever altering their physical form and mental struggles…
…would start their career anew as a pickpocket in Stormwind.
(This is not even mentioning they’ve lived a full life as a high elf/blood elf up unto that point as well.)
On the flipside it makes for very fun RP when you pressure a bit on these things.
Probably because a lot of void elves were envisioned as high elves by their creators before Void Elves were announced as a race and the collective kick in the groin was delivered to the high elven fanbase
Reading that a lot of them appear to be socialites it almost sounds as if the Belves who stuck to Quel’Thalas more make them up, they were probably expecting a non void alliance variant of their characters and probably still kind of want that to some degree
On top of that, there´s also the problem with non-playable race stigma. High elves are integral part of the Alliance, there are high elf civillians scattered around the world (not sure if there have been some in Stormwind before 7.3.5, but there were some in RPG, which of course isn´t canon anymore, but still), but there are RPers out there who will see anyone who dares to RP something that isn´t playable as the worst trash in the world, because how dare they go for race that exists as part of the faction in lore, but isn´t playable because Blizzard doesn´t want to have exact copy of Horde´s most popular race on the Alliance (we are talking in terms of looks).
I have no doubt there are people out there who made a void elf instead of high elf simply because they didn´t want to deal with that stigma, so now their character is void elf.
My void elf was a hired guard. She didn’t travel through the cosmos to study the void.
Do you not understand that there are those who simply were there for mundane reasons?
Not entirely sure about a pickpocket, but if someone loses everything they ever owned due to exile, who knows.
but they could hate blood elves and for good reason
they are allied with the forsaken, undead who if you don’t go into details is no different from the army that made a big scar of death and killed almost everyone.
they are also allied with trolls, a sworn enemy of the blood elves, they even gave up the secrets of the arcane so humans could assist them in fighting trolls.
which kinda begs the question, was one mean human really all it took for the blood elves to ignore two massive grudges and join a faction with two of their races worst enemies and fight their former allies? I mean the human in question didn’t treat any non-human very nice but I don’t see the dwarves turn-coat the alliance.
You’re right. It’s because he wasn’t the only reason. There’s more to it, such as Alliance espionage in Quel’Thalas. Or the fact that in Vanilla you had Alliance forces attack high elven ships under the assumption they were blood elves. There’s more to it than… woah… garithos dude… it was one man…
I don’t recall that, but still, to side with the enemy that killed like 90% of your people over some mistaken attack and espionage? it seems out there, but blizzard work in mysteries ways.
but thank you for adding more fuel to my Void elves fire, now I have even more reason to hate both factions equally much.
Definitely, but I don´t get how people can still repeat that whole “elves should hate Forsaken because they are undead and undead destroyed Quel´Thalas”.
No, Scourge destroyed Quel´Thalas, those undead helped protecting it once they regained their free will.
A Blood Elf can hate the Forsaken for their undeath, or be thankful for their assistance in holding the Ghostlands, or have whatever opinion on them that they like. There’s no right or wrong answer on an individual level; races and peoples on Azeroth are not hiveminds (please ignore the Silithid we all know bugs aren’t people).
Hate? Well, it depends on each individual. Mistrust? Sure since they are still creepy zombies who like to nom nom on people at times and have an unhealthy to everyone obsession with chemicals.
Still hate them, at this point? no they should be on better terms by now.
in the very beginning before they joined the horde and made first contact? if they just went along with it from the get go, I would be suprised.
“And how long do you think you can play this kind of game?”
“As long as I need to,” Lor’themar answered, unflinching. Rommath had run up against his obstinacy, and the regent lord would not be easily bested. He straightened and stared Rommath down. Rommath stared back for a moment, but his whole body seemed to sag. He closed his eyes.
If Joe the hired muscle was crammed full of void juices to the point he was almost completely taken over by powers beyond his fundamental understanding of existance, I don’t think he’d settle for being Joe the hired muscle in the exact same capacity as before. That’s where my issue lies, most people don’t treat the transformation as anything more than being able to lift slightly heavier kettlebells at the gym.
You have tentacles growing out of your head for the love of god.
The drawbacks of their void use / transformation are never properly RPed out. They’re just normal blood elves using void super powers with no issue. Pretty much the same problem as with characters using void magic in general.
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