The Sentinel Army is for all intents and purposes an actual Army.
The fielded massive numbers, alongside the Cenarion Circle, during the War of the Satyrs AND the War of the Shifting Sands alongside the Battle of Hyjal.
Also their Army was send to counter the combined Kalimdor-Horde army! We also see them in a ‘massive’ scale during the Battle of Darkshore while also fielding (a big) number of soldiers in Nazmir.
They do have Glaive-throwers, and the ancients alongside Chimaera’s counts for their other heavy equipment, removing the need for siege-engines, etc like the Humans, Dwarves and Gnomes do!
Their arieal power stems from Druids of the Talon alongside Chimaera’s and Hippogryph Riders! Which is their counter to Gryphon-riders, Flying Machines, Balloons, and Wyvern-Riders.
Yea, they specialize in gorilla-tactics! BUT to say they aren’t capable of actually fighting in open terrain isn’t entirely true either! D:
Doubt it’d be enought time to was out ten thousand years of taint, the fel taint lingers for generations with orcs for example. And blood elves only had their fel taint removed by drowning it in the taint of light.
Of course assuming the void hounds taint work the same as fel.
My headcanon is that Void Terrors, while demonic in origin, can take up several kinds of magic in their body. Immol’thar was one who actually had siphoned arcane energy before being summoned and captured by the Shendralar. As far as I know, it’s never really specified if the Shendralar siphoned Fel magic from the demon, so it’s possible “demonic magic” in this instance, simply means “siphoned from a demon” rather than actual Fel.
It’d explain why they don’t have fel green eyes, for instance.
It could be that he tried to “whisper” to certain denizens of the city. Despite his magic (maybe) being just arcane, he’s still a demon with possibly the same abilities as some others.
Then again, in Vashj’ir you have a statue dedicated to a night elven ranger and it was generally assumed that was a high elven thing too.
https://wow.gamepedia.com/High_Ranger_Valarian
Or the gauntlets the Sentinels wear were designed in Suramar and on the plague of those that created them the Sentinels were named.
https://wow.gamepedia.com/Windstrikers
I know that it is your headcanon, but the Sentinels serving in Ashenvale during the War of Thorns did pretty good in both gorilla warfare and open combat near the river.
I think the difference is that the blood elves, orcs and felborne basicly bathed in Fel magic, while the SHen’dralar siphoned only as much as they needed at a time.
We know that arcane magic can be used to work with souls (or at least that’s what the draenei seem to do in some capacity).
Could be literal, or the demon tried to corrupt the minds of creatures like Tendris.
Could they be refering to the Emerald Nightmare which had started to infest the city?
Most blood elves never actively siphoned the Fel. They just lived around them. So arguably they had even less interaction with Fel than (potentially) the Shendralar.
I disagree. Looking at the maps it seems they never properly bordered each other. The large contrast in culture and mindset suggests they possibly traded but I imagine they exchanged little else than commerce.
The famous story where the pandaren gifted the night elves all the magic they would ever need illustrates, to me, that there was little if any cultural melding.
Man just imagine if they hadn’t opened it immediately but like…during the peak of the War of the Ancients when the demons are invading, as a last resort.
I do not recall any nightmare in the city, there is the dreamgate some distance to the north of eldre’thalas but nothing in the ruins. However there is quite a bit of fel, such as the felvine, the Fruit of Fertility being corrupted by a satyr.
I would assume that the fel (or possibly void given the nature of the beast) has tainted the land about it as is not unheard of that it does, like felwood or val’sharah.
Aren’t the soulbinders priests?
As stated by Thyasa, plenty of blood elves didn’t consume fel, and some did only for as much as was needed. However the shen’drelar did so for ten thousand years. Needless to say, the shen’drelar would have more taint than your average feleyed blood elf.
Perhaps the Fel works different on Night Elves? I mean no Highborne was changed during the WoTA to(except for those who willingly transformed into Satyr), but the others were clearly unaffected by the Fel to! Unlike for examples, the Felborne and the Felblood Elves!
In the same way that no Highborne, while clearly dependant upon Arcane, do neither become Wretched nor Withered!
The felborne are irreversibly twisted and as the Legion’s fervent lackeys supporting the murderous occupation they were either killed or fled with their masters. The nightborne warlocks were their aspirants and apprentices, not yet fully turned to the Fel and not actively indoctrinated into the galactic genocide cult.
While not innocent, they belong on a lower tier of traitor to the people of Suramar and typically align with the social network around the felborne aristocrats in opposition to lady Ly’leth Lunastre. As such, they’re now in the political poop can and have no hope of influence in the political game of new Suramar and thus turn their attentions outward to a vast and open world from which to carve their own seat of power.
Some might still be closet legion cultists, others are simply power hungry, driven individuals handed a warlock’s power as a weapon. A minority were rebel sympathisers but forced to study the black arts because all had to submit in the end, their spirits broken. Despite fighting back against the demons at first chance, they’re just as tarred by the crimes of the felborne and resentful of the new regime for not giving them due respect for their efforts.
All this is soured further by the controversial decision to train a new generation of warlocks “safely” in Suramar with Horde (sin’dorei) consultation as they are useful. They’re still unorthodox for taking demon power into their veins even after the nightborne liberation from reliance on the nightwell.
