The destroyers have a much lower profile and three giant metal rams to be fair.
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Yeah, there are similiar features (e.g the junk ship sails) but the blood/high elven ship is clearly more designed for ramming IMO.
Youâd think being such a magical race, theyâd be less about ramming and close combat, and more about blowing up enemy ships with spells.
Sorry, the quota of deux ex machina magical ships had already been taken by the Alliance.
Void elf exiles are generally apolitical due to their history and general self interest but when they are politically driven itâs intense and highly ideological. The Hordeâs crimes must be punished and QuelâThalas liberated from tyranny! Especially in regard to the people responsible for dividing the elves once again; put Rommath on a pike!
What comes after that? Well, with void elves seemingly valuing a flexible mindset, free thinking and new paths, the ones most motivated toward regime change have stumbled into republicanism even if they would see Umbric as Lord Protector for a transition period.
This talk is highly controversial even among their new and old allies with their old aristocracies and entrenched theocratic power structures so itâs only really popular in their own fanatical brainstorming bubble and SI:7 regards such notions as dangerous since The Whispers might lead the most benevolent elected assembly astray.
And then they will proudly visit Sunwell and bring a Void Lord into our universe through it.
As I am thinking about it, my headcanon about void elves would be that they already partially succumbed to whispers of the Void, which is the reason why they fail to understand that their mere presence in close proximity to the Sunwell would have catastrophic consequences not only for Quel´Thalas, but also for the entire world.
We are talking about group of people, who, if they got what they desire, would turn one of the most powerful bastions of the Light in this world into gateway for the Void.
Rommath was right
That void elves arenât taking a place on the international scene as villains matching Sylvanas is solely due to their low numbers and relative lack of power.
They serve as the most morally difficult of Alliance war measures. While Alliance officials ostensibly support them for the sake of cohesion, morale and public order, their opinions behind closed doors - and the opinions of the faithful general public - are very different.
Following the trial of Hellscream, certain agreements were made regarding outsider presence on Pandaria.
Garroshâar point and strongarm airstrip are once more pandaren territory. The ruins have been repurposed, with the former now serving as a little dock for example.
Twinspire keep and thunder hold have once more been abandoned.
Westwind and Eastwind rest remain and have grown, now forming the most significant Tushui and Huojin holdings. From these outposts they attempt to recruit more locals to their cause, which is tolerated but not always well liked.
The two largest outsider holds on the continent are on the Krasari coast, and they remain garrisoned. Skirmishes still happen here to this day. The smaller Night Elf and Tauren camps in the jungle have been mostly abandoned due to the completion of their purpose and the hostile environment.
The tower holdings on the wall remain as well. The factions have been permitted to garrison these in exchange for helping to guard the local stretches of the wall.
The Horde structures in the Kun-Lai mountains themselves as well as the Vale were abandoned. The shrines remain sanctuary to the respective factions but not for military use.
Elves are a communal people, from Highborne to Blood Elves to Night Elves. There are numerous examples of emphasis on community, from the rather âopenâ blood elven taverns and emphasis on reputation to night elves raising children in a community.
Because of this exile and ostracism is the preferred punishment over execution for severe crimes. And, it is arguably, worse than death.
Not really headcanon, but I wish they gave âNight Warrior night elvesâ the name⌠midnight elves.
Idk, it just sounds right to me.
Nexus exists in the World of Warcraft universe, much like it does in Heroes of the Storm. While not being well-known, rumors have it that some Azeroth folk have traveled there and back, telling legends of battlefields with skull golems, ghost pirate captain canoneers, demons and angels as well as even other entirely new, unknown alien speciesâŚ
Nightborne still hold Elune as their deity, but their conception of her is very different to that of kaldorei and sits as yet another schism between the two groups. The kaldorei worship her as a goddess whom they believe has capacity to intervene, is benevolent, and sits in some relationship to the wild gods and ancients. Conversely the Nightborne see her as a distant, distinct being, whom is not actively involved with the ancients (rendering them non-reverent) and certainly doesnât intervene. For this reason their worship of her her (where it exists) is overwhelming secularised, largely attended to as a matter of heritage and primarily academic in nature.
This change in conception of Elune began when the highborne started to prioritise the arcane over natural powers. From this they began to see themselves overwhelmingly as authors of their fate in the world, and as such petitioning divine forces came to be seen as crude and uncivilised. Rather the deity came to be seen as something of a motif, and inspiration for driving elven efforts towards their own brilliance and civilisation. With the cult of Azshara, Elune began to take a lofty, otherworldly position amongst the nobles, whilst their earthly affairs were focussed on their own achievements. This contributed towards the idea that Elune doesnât involve herself in the physical world (and those who believes she does only believe so because they lack the recourse to take charge of their own fates). Tensions developed in Suramar as the urban elf practice of religion began to contrast with the influence Tyrande and other priestesses brought through their interactions with the druids.
When Suramar was placed under the arcane barrier prior to the Sundering, the cut with the capitol left Suramar isolated from the outside world and Azsharas influence. The leading nobles of Suramar used religion to try and retain some semblance of civil order, emphasising their noble heritage in Elune. However in order to safeguard against dissent regarding worry of whether the druids were indeed correct about the perils of the arcane, the authorities lifted the ancient sanctions on male priests, opening up the priesthood to all as a way of trying to prevent schisms within their populace as they believed happened in the first place due to male kaldorei only finding spiritual recourse and authority in druidism.
As a result the first years under the barrier saw a slight revival in Elune worship in Suramar, as a means of weathering uncertainty in the populace. Over time as the nation developed into the Nightborne, their worship once again became overwhelming secular in nature and lacked any real passion or zeal you might find in other races. This is still the case now, where Nightborne priests are probably better likened to scholars of religion and Elunian history than tenders of ministry. This said they still wield holy and shadow powers due to their natural expertise with magic, and their confidence in their ability to do so.
This quiet, non public, non animated form of religion still holds a place of reflecting the noble tradition of the Nightborne, in that though not especially religious as a people, they still identify themselves within the cultural tradition, even if they donât attend temple or engage in active worship any more. This approach also leads them to still view other races (most notably the kaldorei) that still petition divine forces to work on their behalf as primitive compared to their own refined interpretation of religion that has deep roots in logic and reasoning. This is why Nightborne have no qualms about attacking Kaldorei priests or druids- because their interpretation of Elune is so distant and transcendent that they donât believe Elune even cares about what mortals do (if she is even capable of caring at all).
Many Nightborne look upon the incidents at Darkshore with disbelief, believing the more sensible explanation to be a celestial anomaly which happened as a coincidence, rather than believe their interpretation of Elune is wrong, and that she does in fact intervene on mortal affairs. They accuse Tyrande of utilising crude forms of shadow magic that have their roots during the formative years of the kaldorei before proper civilisation, and accommodating it with an Elunian narrative in order to attempt to rouse the spirits of a people that are on the back foot and have taken a beaten. Additionally they believe that Tyrande and others are becoming increasingly unhinged upon realizing that Elune may not care about their suffering, but at this point they will desepratley forward the same narrative they always have, else they have to concede they have been living a lie for several millennia.
So despite their arrogance, Nightborne priests are possibly some of the most liberal priests in Azeroth due to their beliefs. They see no purpose in evangelising and are only really interested in comprehending the divine because it might teach them about the nature of cosmic magics (light and void) rather than a desire for a relationship with some celestial entity. They tend to describe Elune is negative terms (she is Not X) rather than attribute characteristics to her because they believe that being a goddess renders her unique, which makes attempts to describe her attributes unreasonable and a waste of time.
The blood elves who stood away from Silvermoon/QuelâDanas for most of the time since the Sunwellâs cleansing keep their green eyes, even if they use no Fel.
Even those who use the Light?
Forgot about these⌠the Light-using ones are an exception, they could indeed be golden even further from the Sunwell! Thanks for correcting me.
I just looked it up again and you are right. The night elven ships seemingly have cannons. I donât know how I skipped that passage and itâs kinda surprising for me to be perfectly honest.
And itâs honestly kinda weird just imagining two night elves doing the whole âcannon loadingâ process because we are obviously talking about cannons akin to the weapons used in the 16th-17th century.
Elven eyebrows arenât quite like hair at all but more akin to a catâs whiskers in their toughness, allowing them to keep their shape. There is no biological function, itâs simply a quirk of the elven form as the dark trolls transformed.
The urban varieties of 'dorei have developed a cultural self consciousness about these things and go out of their way to apply styling wax and spend time grooming them. Many in Silvermoon and Suramar, men and women alike, wouldnât be caught dead with ungroomed eyebrows.
The also act as antennae for subtle non-verbal communication.
Levey does come up with cool bits about elves ![:+1:](https://d1bg94bbsh66ji.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/+1.png?v=6" ":+1:")
Converse in secret by rubbing eyebrows together. 
