He uses a Blade instead of a Hammer.
Who knows. Perhaps they donât know how to heal.
He uses actual blademaster techniques like mirror images.
Heâs fake news.
Blademasters shouldâve been kept an Orc thing.
The Night Elven population saw a marked decrease in birth rates during the Long Vigil, attributed to a sizeable portion of the males slumbering in the Emerald Dream.
This helps to account for the relatively low numbers of Night Elves for a race that for 10,000 had a nearly non-existent mortality rate outside of the War of the Shifting sands.
Their long lifespans however did allow them to take significant breaks between having one child and another, with some siblings being millennia apart in age.
I disagree, Akamito. At least in the first few millennia of the Vigil, I reckon birth rates were rather high. Not only did the Night elves lose a sizeable portion of their people during the WotA, but only 700 years after they fought the War of the Satyr, which extracted a heavy toll from them as well.
My reasoning is that they went from a civilisation that encompassed a huge portion of Azeroth that was, at the time, significantly larger to a people that fit into a small corner of Kalimdor. That would still allow for a significant portion of them to have perished as per canon in the WotA.
I donât think high birth rates would be necessary to repopulate them, given that they were large enough to be able to exile the Highbourne and still maintain a decent size of civilisation. They started out small (compared to before) and gradually built up over following 10,000 years.
There may well have been a spike before the druids entered the dream though, a baby boom so to speak?
But thatâs why I see it as headcanon, because itâs entirely up in the air and open to debate and I appreciate your entirely valid points.
I legitimately forgot about the War of the Satyr. My bad.
EDIT: Sorry I added quite a bit after my initial post.
They never had a high birth rate in the first place even pre-WOTA. In the Illidan questline in Legion we see Malfurionâs and Illidanâs birth and the entire village gathers to witness the newborn children as though births are not a common thing for such a long lived race.
If they were common, the entire community wouldnât gather to celebrate each individual birth.
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New headcanon.
The trolls secretly covered the entire Kaldorei empire in a curse at the height of itâs power to keep the scales balanced, the curse would severely limit their birth rate to keep the elves from extending further into their territory.
A genius Witch Doctor by the name of Mordin implemented the curse which they would later name the genophage.
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Well it mightâve been true they never had a high birthrate but personally I think that in Illidan and Malfurionsâ case the villagers gathering was due to two reasons;
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Birthing twins is extremely rare amongst Elven-kind
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Illidan being born with Amber eyes, which was also extremely rare back then, only made it certain more and more people were interesting into seeing the new born twins.
Now I think that the Kaldorei birthrate used to be way, way higher amongst the Kaldorei pre-WoTA. Both because they had the room and the infrastructure and the lack of care for the natural world for it back then.
Atleast thats my view on it! D:
Regarding Illidanâs eyes, the villagers didnât know he had them until they had already gathered and witnessed him open his eyes for the first time.
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Oh he opened his eyes during that gathering? Fair enough. Then mustâve been because they were twins(I donât know of any other Kaldorei twins 
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I believe kaldorei children are raised by the community as a whole, so they are likely to celebrate birthdays etc. together, as well.
Why they are so community centered could be because they are few in number, but it might simply be religiously inspired.
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In this particular example given it was during the height of the Kaldorei empire which means their numbers would be substantial.
It could well be as said before that itâs because they were twins and thatâs quite an important occurrence and wasnât the norm.
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I agree, though we donât have an idea of the population of Lorâlathil or other small villages. Either way, I do think itâs most likely simply because they were twins, yeah.
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Fair point. The outlying villages were likely a lot more close knit and would be more involved in their community.
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Trolls donât actually have any kind of fur (or moss, in the case with forest trolls), and itâs the stupidest thing Blizzard ever came up with.
Donât @ me.
Headcanon about the same piece of the story:
The reason why Highborne were banished over 2 millenia after War of the Ancients instead of shortly after it ended was slow increase in elven population to the point where elven territory became pretty crowded, which increased the tensions between Kaldorei and Quel´dorei simply because hippies now had more and more interractions with manafreaks.
The eastern plaguelands smell like a combination of moldy bread, moist mushrooms, week old meat and gym socks. Itâs practically its own living thing and measures must be taken constantly to prevent the rot from spreading.
The threat is mostly fungal and spending too much time there without paladin, druid or priestly intervention can result in several unfortunate conditions, not the least of which are unique variants of highly aggressive trenchfoot and ringworm.
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Why do you put this in my head?