Reclaiming a lost kingdom works as a trope, it’s a beloved story narrative. The harsh reality to that plot point however is when you’ve achieved that objective you’ll discover it was always better to want, not have.
This is why humans should never reclaim Lordaeron, why Stromgarde should have always remained contested. Factions vying for former empires, trying to reclaim their legacies as their own makes those groups interesting – actually owning it doesn’t. Lordaeron didn’t have a lot going for it when it was around, what made it interesting was it’s collapse and ruin. It’s destruction was what got people interested.
This is why I think it’ll be great to RP around as a High Elf because well, actually owning the place as a Blood Elf doesn’t have a lot going for it; considering how dead the RP scene is there these days (sadly).
We are very much going to have Norf FC High Elf guilds all about reclaiming Silvermoon. It’s just a better narrative, that’s why so many humans go with Alterac, Lordaeron and Stromgarde etc (at least the latter two did until they had their story semi-taken away). As Aerilen said above the setting and it’s established factions are stagnant (at least largely Alliance side) – ruined kingdoms are very friendly to open sandbox RP where you don’t have a “mmm excuse me this X leader wouldn’t approve of that ” gaming. You’re largely free to pursue the RP you want; it’s going to be incredibly uplifting.
I would go a step above and say without Lor’themar on your back the High Elves get to truly be the evil guys Blood Elves have been longing to return to for so long. They have the morally ambiguous Void Elves on their side and they love slaughtering civilians in Dalaran given the chance.
The most BE players can hope for is the upcoming feuding between the three groups about rightful Quel’dorei clay that has fuelled Forsaken and Human RP for so long – because sadly they don’t have much else going for them.
I’m always happy to see more customisation though I fear that there will be even more Alliance players on RP realms now, and we’re already heavily ALliance tilted.
Another small peeve is that Void Elves/High Elves can’t be Paladins.
It may actually help will cut the Velf player pop in half maybe more which in turn would actually help since Velfs are ment to be low in number along maybe even more then Helf.
Paladins would be cool but maybe it isn’t to much of a let down pretty sure helf pala were rare before the fall of the sunwell, They were more priests.
I´m not sure about that given how void elves turned out. People were given opportunity to roleplay Thalassian elves during a faction war, yet what happened is lots of city elves and assimilation of void elves into existing guilds. Correct me if I´m wrong, but there are no remaining active void elf guilds at this point.
I think high elves will follow this trend, which means we will have to take back norf ourselves.
How about we make it two, one for Crap Covenant and one for chad Quel´Danil, who will focus more on strengthening their position in Hinterlands and recruiting new high elves into their way of life, maybe even thinking Sansa Windrunner Fanclub isn´t much better than blood elves because they still cling to Arcane magic.
“Anakin, Regent Lord Lor´themar is evil!”
“From my point of view, the Silver Covenant elves are evil!”
A solution to this, could easily be a stockades kind of deal.
let them reclaim part of the city while the lower levels remain a dungeon (make some kind of teleporter for hordies or whatever) and maybe update the dungeon so it isn’t the mangled corpse of what it used to be.
On the contrary, I’ve always preferred shorter ears on elves, probably because my idea of elven aesthetics was influenced by the LOTR movies.*
My character has shorter ears IC than the in-game model, so if night elves also get customizable ear length, I will be interested in it.
* And the book, of course, but I had no idea that elves in fantasy were usually imagined as having pointy ears, because it’s not mentioned anywhere in Tolkien’s books. So I imagined them having human ears until I saw the movies, which left me puzzled by the pointy ears.
Whether Tolkien Elvish ears were pointed or not is open for speculation, but there are no explicit references to pointed Elvish ears in The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings or The Silmarillion.
But In the Etymologies (a linguistic manuscript from ca. 1937-8 published posthumously) is stated that “the Quendian [Quendi is the name given by the Elves to their own kind] ears were more pointed and leaf-shaped than Human.”
Answering to a question on Hobbit ears, Tolkien wrote that these were “only slightly pointed and ‘elvish’”. Some take this to mean that Elvish ears were pointed, while others argue that it is an ambiguous statement.
All right, I knew someone would nitpick, so I should have been clearer. It’s not mentioned anywhere in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. It was 2001, I had barely got a half-working Internet connection, and I hadn’t even read The Silmarillion back then.
No nitpicking, I’m actually agree what you said!
There are no reference for pointed ears in those books - and no real “proof” to this day
Just in the leters and int the Etymologies and even in them its vague and ambiguous ^^’
” gaming. You’re largely free to pursue the RP you want; it’s going to be incredibly uplifting.