be the egirl you were always meant to be boo
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Hold the phone Doreen.
One of the velfs in the image has standard black hair. There is hope for me.
I am a bit disappointed and worried since I didnât want this to happen for many reasons, but itâs not the end of the world. Just a bit lame.
Itâs cool for people who donât care about the lore or roleplay and just want more options, though, and they are the majority so I canât really blame Blizzard for making this decision.
Edit: Still waiting for that sadfury troll lore because I think thatâs a more important subject they need to adress.
I am so happy with this. I can keep my Void looking warlock just the way she is (which is how I prefer her), but tweak my mage to look more high elven if I want to⌠though Iâm not sure that I do. This will take some contemplation.
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Finally, it is about time to have thisâŚ
Only complaint I have, is that at this point it shows they should just had High Elves as the Allied Race in the first place. They put up the contrived Void Elves concept to avoid that, just to finally give up on it in the next expansion. They should have just listened in the first place. But at this point, this is the best we could get, and it is definitely better than nothing.
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Looks like we win!
It wouldâve been nice to have High Elves as their own thing with unique racials and customizations, but this is fine too. Now to see if they get Paladins or I have to keep Orbing it up.
If you drop a hat in the WarCraft universe, the Elves will form a new subspecies of Hat Elves, whose culture revolve around hats and hat accessories, while the Orcs will form a Hat Horde to wage ceaseless war on all the hatless races.
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Void elves with normal skintones. Huh. I wonder if this will at all be explained in the lore, or if weâre to fill in the blanks ourselves.
Anyway the blue eyes for blood elves certainly took a turn from Ionâs interview. Never again will I doubt the prophetic insight of Telaryn.
This is like the WoW player motto!
You can do both on AD, but you can only do one on a PvE realm!
Ion works as a spokesperson for a AAA game publisher, so if you assume everything that comes out of his mouth is some form of lie and youâll be right more often than not.
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So we get to brutally murder elves with the wrong eye colour in Orgrimmar now right?
Cool!
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Could also give him the benefit of the doubt. Plans do change. 
https://youtu.be/EfGDvDGE7zk?t=44
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It was a joke referring to the passionate outcry of the playerbase that has desperately wanted High elves for years, which I then reacted to with exaggerated relief as one of the oldest customization requests has been fulfilled, bringing an end to an era of thread after thread where this would be discussed.
Of all the comments in this thread, what set you off about that one? Or, why does it bother you so much anyway?
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We already have High Elf Wayfarers and Silvermoon Scholars hanging around in Telogrus Rift; Iâd be very surprised if Blizzard decided to elaborate more on the subject.
And the population of Half Elves just increased drastically. Great. Like Stormwind needed more of that.
I imagine something like this:
After few years, the void elves have adapted too there new life, thanks too valeras teaching - they can alter there void form.
Iâm just here to say that the fact that void elves get two choices for underwear is the alliance bias at it again.
/s
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I see it as generations, like DKs.
Gen I: wierd coloured velf with tentacle hair as you were involved in void accident. Part of Umbrics og crew, this group cannot grow.
Gen II: consists of blood and high elf pilgrims who have renounced former ties in exchange for being taught void magic. Look identical to base race, but eyes turn blue if green prior due to void chomping on fel (explains why green isnât option).
Both groups call themselves void elves.
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Yeah, I gave it some thought and thatâs the best headcanon I can cook up as well.
Alleria does look perfectly High Elven when not using the Void after all, so maybe thatâs a level of control the other Void Elves have come to learn after some time under the tutelage of her and Locus-Walker.
Could also be the case. Honestly, Iâd kind of want a throwaway line somewhere clearing it up, for the sake of RP consistency if nothing else. Time will tell.
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I doubt we will, but itâs the most sensible inference from current info. Thereâs no evidence OG velf can cleanse their physical form change, there is evidence helf and belf are shacked up in telogrus with aims to riding the velf teachings and philosophy. Also Alleria sets a clear precedent that being taught void magic whilst retaining control in itself doesnât change your baseline appearence outside of void form. Seeing as the pilgrims are learning void magic similar to how she did (via study) it makes complete sense that most void elves will end up looking like her as the pilgrim group is growing.
This actually rationalises why the blue velf will appear a smaller group in RP. However the question is whether people are going to RP these normal looking Velf as actual Velf (which they are, afaik they have the same philosophy as Alleria and Umbric) or just ignore that and pretend the Silver Covenant are suddenly massively active in the Alliance and pretend they have no Void powers (which current lore doesnât support).
So on the one hand blue Velf should be lesser in number, but all velf should still be Velf in outlook really. But I think the RP theme of Velf will altogether fall away in favour of Helf RP which is a shame, even if blizzard are making it clear that the lore narrative is pushing Helf towards Velf (ie there wonât be any non Void sipping Helf left in time).
I could be wrong, blizz may write new lore that magics helf proper back into action. If not, these âpure Helfâ in large numbers who donât affiliate with the Void may well become the servers biggest headcanon.