Hello people, I’m thinking of making my current RP character ( blood elf ) to become a void elf, and work it into her story, as the events of umbric etc have already passed for quite some time I am looking for a way to let her become one now and struggle with it on her own, perhaps with some help of outsiders and friends. However after looking arround on loresites and videos I fail to find a way how this would be possible now. Any of you have a suggestion on that ?
Thanks in advance 
So the Void claimed another one… goood… goooood!
Well, lets see!
Some “facts”:
Have a read through this: https://www.polygon.com/2019/1/21/18188397/wow-world-of-warcraft-allied-races-story-nightborne-void-elves-steve-danuser-interview
It is implied there that the “original” Void Elves that were a part of Umbric’s group are “open to those who show a similar interest”, and that they somehow replicate the process. Perhaps your Blood Elf could’ve sought them out and tried to join?
Alright so… could the void be ‘’ cursed ‘’ upon you as in my character would have a wide range of enemy’s by this time and perhaps one would amuse himself with doing so ? or is the void a force you need to willingly let in, however so if I was weakened to such extent I couldn’t put up much resistance, I’ve RPed her as a seafarer most of my time ( pirate ) cough
The thing is… the Void whispers to you, when you’re exposed to it. All the Void Elves have to deal with it. Someone who’s quite weak and was turned involuntarily would quite likely submit to the said voices, rather than resist them and move on with their new life.
Thanks Coldshade and and zymara, I think indeed going to seek them out would be the most reasonable and least lorebreaking thing to do, Thanks !
See you in Telogrus!
I want to visit Telogrus T_T
But the mean Ren’Dorei refused to open a portal for turist…
For a Shadow Priest visiting that place would be a must!
Didn’t Alleria become “voided” rather involuntarily?
Although I definitely think - kind of like with Illidari, death knights, and perhaps also Lightforged (but for different reasons) - that there are no “weak” characters of these classes/races, because the weak are weeded out or simply not allowed to become a death knight / Lightforged and so on
I may be a bit wrong on Alleria’s lore… but didn’t she become voidy from absorbing a Naaru? Even if not… she’s a different thing than a Void Elf. She can change back to being an ordinary high elf, the playable race can’t.
No, if you read or listen to the Thousand Years of War, her first contact with the Void was as voluntary as they come. When she got her void form in game, she was dabbling in it already quite a lot.
The real question I ask is: Why would any other elf want to become a Void Elf?
Why can’t the player Void Elves just be Umbric’s original students warped into Void beings against their will due to their (continual) misunderstanding of the Void?
That’s a good question, to be fair. Because if we think of it… the transformation was done involuntarily, none of them intended to be changed. So, why do they now recruit new people and make them go through this? Well… this is now the lore, so we’re gonna have to roll with it. I guess the upside is there for these people who want to swap their established blood elf character over as a voidie without retconning anything to make the char one of the initial exiles.
That’s the big question, isn’t it? We see curious high and blood elves apparently being taught in the rift but have no ingame examples of transformation being avaliable or even possible.
Even if you’d seek out Umbric and Alleria for study, it’s a different matter entirely to alter your very essence, voluntarily taking the darkness inside you and becoming something different than a regular old elf and dealing with the drawbacks. In that sense, it’s reminiscent of demon hunters sacrificing everything(!) to continue the path of power. They still do it, so it’s up to the player of such to find good cause.
I mean, what’s a lifetime of sinister, lying whispers in your head coupled with the metaphysicals of “damnation” as long as you get more knowledge, powers and whatever opportunity to strike at your enemy? It’s all very elven.
Honestly to me the “recruiting” thing sounds stupid. The void elves wanted to learn about and harness the void, not become it. It’s like a permanent shadowform deluxe, you’d have to be quite crazy from the beginning to want that transformation. Welcoming fellow elves to study and learn, absolutely, but going;
“Hey I was about to die and was changed forever and now I have evil voices in my head that makes me more unstable than a demon hunter overcharged with fel, but sure, I’ll try to give it to you too”, really?
As a Void Elf, if I was to become corrupted by fel; what would I become then?
A Felvelf elf?
By the looks of it, you’d just be the portal guy, knowing nether and void. You have the skeleton key but all the doors lead to something awful. Warlocks and the burning legion already habitually summoned and bound void creatures before there were void elves.
Your soul’s probably not in great shape either.
can’t exactly say i know how to ‘become’ a void elf, but i know how to act like one… Just… A-void the fanatic priests and paladins…
Jokes aside. i believe It’s something about learning the arts of enduring it. as well as some kind of mental discipline. Rip english btw
I also thought she was voidified when she absorbed that naaru, yes…
I wasn’t aware that she could change her form back into regular high elf, though. That is indeed uniquely different from us ‘normal’ Ren’dorei…
I thought she was just … stronger, because she absorbed a naaru, while the rest of us … were “merely” exposed to void energies when that bad thing tried to defeat us…?
I didn’t know that, thanks - I’ll check out that short story.
I’m still not sure how the new void elves become void infused…
I got the impression that both the Ren’dorei and the Lightforged draenei take in ‘new recruits’, but I don’t know how they do the infusing.
(I think I read somewhere that the Lighttforged draenei use the Netherlight Crucible, but it may be that I completely misremember.)
Maybe the void elves do some ‘void ritual’, where existing void elves … channel …void… into newly recruited Quel’dorei or sin’dorei?
A freshly made lightforged character is seen kneeling before the Crown of the Triumvirate (the three crystals we collected to bling the Vindicaar with Light) whilst getting a beam shot into them. Presumably, the crown does the forging in Xe’ra’s absence.
It’s not unthinkable that void elves have some equivalent but we don’t get to see or know it ingame. We just get these interviews and tweeted lore updates which is really low effort and lazy in contrast to its significance.