How are Void Elves different?

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A question that has always bothered me but that never seems to be explored has got to be just how the Void Elves different from their Blood Elven cousins?

You would think that Void corruption is a pretty bad thing; but I don’t know if I’ve actually seen or heard any information about how our Void Elves are different from normal Blood Elves.

… aside from blue skin, cooler voice and a new magic school of course!

So I ask you guys! What do we know/suspect/speculate are the differences between a ‘normal’ Blood Elf and a void corrupted Void Elf?

For instance,

  • Are Void Elves sterile?
  • Are Void Elves physically stronger than normal Sin’Dorei due to the corruption?
  • Has their lifespan been changed? Could Void Elves be immortal due to the void influence? Or might they die/wither away in just a few years?
  • Are Void Elves vulnerable to holy magic like an Undead/Demon would be? And on the opposite end, are void elves better/more attuned to shadow/frost magic than a normal elf ever could hope to be?

Let me know what you guys think/know/speculate!

NOTE: These questions are obviously aimed at how it would be in lore, as ingame representation is usually determined by balance/design(I.e. blizzard removing the ability for priests/paladins to use their anti-undead powers vs Undead players, or gnome warriors having similar strength scores to tauren warriors)

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I hope so… imagine a defenseless child being under the influence of void whispers even before its own thoughts come in. There would be absolutely no hope of sanity…

No reason to think that.

Hasn’t come up yet. And I have no idea on what basis I would speculate here.

Yes. Or at least Alleria is, feeling strong pain when she opens herself up to the light and even when she touches her lightforged husband. I don’t think Void Elves are less corrupted than her.

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As said by Wimbert, hopefully. Certainly they would not be capable of giving birth to sane children, remember the Void Corruption changes their very nature, even the colour of their blood. That Void blood is going to be what is feeding a child for nine months in the womb. For Void Elves to even -try- to have children would be a despicably evil act, that I cannot imagine anyone would consider. I mean that’s next level, that’s worse than Sylvanas type morality.

Seems incredibly unlikely, their musculature is the same, and their pursuit of Void magic was a mental one, not a physical discipline, so there is no reason for them to physically become stronger.

Well, Blizzard did confirm, that now that the Kaldorei are not immortal, they have the same lifespan as all other Elves, but at the time that only referred to High and Blood Elves (‘Several thousand years apparently’) The Shal’dorei are also no longer immortal, so probably the same, and the Ren’dorei, the Void Elves, well that’s a tricky one. For a start, are they immortal? Probably not. In fact almost certainly not. The Void is a thing of Entropy and Destruction, if it was going to have an effect on lifespan it would be to shorten it, not extend it, by its very nature.
We have however no evidence, and given an Elven lifespan, what does it matter? I mean without getting overly bleak about it, none of us is going to be alive in 100 years, even assuming Warcraft still exists then, so even if it does shorten their lifespan, it is not likely to do so to a human level. Given that the Void is destruction and entropy, I think its safe to say it’s not going to be great for your health, but I can’t see them popping their clogs massively earlier than a Sin’dorei.

It seems that they are more vulnerable to The Light, or at least will suffer greater pain from it, which makes complete sense, the Light and Void are diametrically opposed. Its the power levels involved, think of it this way, Fire and Water are pretty much opposites. If you throw a pan full of water on a burning match, that fire is going out. If you throw a pan of water at a burning building, that water is going to become a small amount of steam. Its the power levels that would make the difference, the amounts.

On the opposite side, I can’t see that Void Elves would be any better at Frost magic, there’s no real reason for that. Shadow magic however, well, I mean they are now creatures that are part Void, I’d say it is pretty safe to assume that they will be at the top of their game when it comes to Shadow magic, given that they can do things even other Shadow wielders can’t do.

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God I hope so.

Doubtful. They’ll be more adept with the void. That’s about it. The average Ren’dorei probably couldn’t go toe-to-toe in a fist fight with a Blood Knight Or Spellbreaker unless they themselves were in some form of physical combat role before hand.

You will never find out. Apparently Blood Elves can live for up to 7,000 years. If not more. I doubt anything changed for the Void Elves.

Weak to holy, strong with the void would be my guess. Frost doesn’t have anything to do with it.

They’re just Blood Elves/High Elves, but they can use shadow magic without restraint. That’s about it. Blizzard should have added Krokuul instead.

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Devil’s advocate, but they’re probably not sterile. The Old Gods were involved in corrupting the Forge of wills via the curse of flesh, and the black dragonflight could still breed after falling prey to corruption

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Doubt Blizzards narrative had in mind tainted children infected by some space tumour that tries to turn them crazy.

Much like Lightforging, Void elves are created artificially.

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I’d… rather not picture a baby iin the influence of whispers and void corruption.

It’s like imagining those Twilight Dragonflight whelps. Only with a slightly much closer connection to imagination than usual.

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That makes sense.
But while Lightforging was an intentional design meant to make bigger, badder, stronger & holier space goats; the case of the Void Elves seemed more an accident had thus come with less benefits perhaps?

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Could be.

Not every change is meant to bring good benefits only. I like to think a likeable flaw to Void Elves could be (despite having a strange story) that their ‘change’ has more drawbacks than rewards.

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Maybe we could be like glass cannons.

No mortal could match the sheer level of destruction possible through a Void Elf throwing around literal Void Energy!

… but maybe all those entropic energies make us heal pretty poorly. What is a Void Elf going to do if they take an arrow to the knee? A holy priest is not an option, and they’re not undead so a Necromancer couldn’t help them either.

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I actually like that.

You’re this battery capable of storing and throwing around such a power with unbelievable amounts of control.

…But it comes with a cost. A cost that no Ren’dorei would let any other race know, friend or foe.

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The initial “batch”, with Umbric & Co indeed came as some accident. But the new ones seem to indeed be the byproduct of some active tinkering.
We lack knowledge regarding their power upgrade, but as of now, I think they are the opposing pole to the Lightforged. And are about as powerful as them, with the only difference being what kind of power they tap into.

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We have absolutely no idea how, if (and WHY) elves that weren’t in the accident become Void Elves.

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Aren’t playable ones part of said new batch that was created after Umbrics accident with the cube? Can’t remember if the scenario about Umbric was the recruit one or the initial intro for players.

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There is nothing that comments on that. I always thought they were accident victims. There are Belf/Helf recruits standing aroung, but they aren’t void elves yet, and I don’t see why they would become that way. Alleria shows that you don’t need to become one, to use their magic.

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Well, that would greatly narrow the scope of said race now wouldn’t it? Only a handful of elves were part of said accident. Like a dozen. Tops.

And their military presence is a lot bigger than that.

Edit: And not regular elves with shadow spells, but the purple ones.
And I doubt Alleria is highly representative of how an average elf would be. Thousand years of practice and sucking the essence of a Fallen Naaru seems oddly specific for it to be a widespread circumstance.

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Numbers don’t matter in this game, as you know.

Why wouldn’t she be? She is the one teaching it the same way she was tought. The other ones wouldn’t have an absorbed Naaru as superpower, but neither did Alleria before Mac’Aree.

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Little known fact, elves do not actually reproduce through sex. Every time a man commits a grave sin, Lord Garithos creates one elf to remind him of his burden. And it seems we have sinned a lot recently.

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Wooooooooopsie

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Saying that void elves trying to have children is a despicable act is kind of going far. If a couple IRL were to try to conceive a child with the possible risk of developing a painful genetic condition, are the parents evil then for trying to have children?