Why would you want a storyline about Elves accepting their Troll Ancestry? judging by all the titan lore and lies who is to believe the Elves even have a Troll Ancestry?
I will suggest you ask for more Troll storytellers rather than what you are asking now.
The lore quite franky
Harronir are a dead giveaway inbetween race too, archeology also shows that trolls worshipped Elune as a Loa, or atleast considered the moon to be one, or represented by one.
If it was a titan lie, we wouldnât find consistant evidence spread by blizzard about it. Dark trolls found the well of the ancients, the arcane energies that flowed from it probably ordered them into elves by proximity
Going by Harronir as a dead giveaway, i can also say all troll are Harronir instead. But even looking at Harronir, they are more Night elf than trolls. one can even argue that all night have Harronir Ancestry rather than Troll since they all have the same body structure as compare to the Troll. one more point, since the well of enterity was meant to be where the titan rip one of the old god and create that just like the first world tree was also rip and the Harronir came from no way, the same came be said for the Dark troll if they were even dark troll. for all we know they were Harronir who become night elf. remember they lore keep changing.
If Humans count as Alien Invaders already⌠What are the Draenei then?
The Alien of my Alien is my ally
You know it!
I would. Just imagine how handy a heel toe would be if youâre standing waiting at a bus stop and instead of grabbing the ankle of the woman in the high heels and rubbing your itchy shin with her heel you could use your heel toe.
Iâm surely not the only person with this problem.
The alliance of lorderon betrayed the high elves. So for some reason the blood elves are distrusting of this new alliance. Wierd
With no real reveal like that having been put in place or having been discovered I personally donât think about such tings
Sure the lore can change, but Iâll deal with that when it eventually does change and there is no indication of the troll heritage of elves is being overwritten. They even seem to have went out of their way to make the Harronir in the cinematic look like a troll.
Only their visual ingame models, in the cinematic and with voice lines in game, its all troll?
How so? The original Vrykul, Earthen and Mechagnomes are made from Azerothâs own resources, even if shaped by a foreign will.
Also if you call humans alien to Azeroth, then orcs should be alien to Draenor as well. Both developed from Titan-created beings after all.
Blood elves have a good lore explanation for joining the Horde, iâll admit that (Plenty of races added later have far flimsier excuses for picking either side), but the reason they were added into the game as playable characters (Which is a separate consideration entirely) was that the Horde needed a pretty race to shore up faction population, which definitely worked, as evidenced by Blood elves being the single most played race in the game ATM.
Even if we take into account the current highly lopsided faction balance (Two Horde players for every Alliance player), Blood elves are almost as popular as Night elves, another âprettyâ race.
From what little we know so far. The trolls and elves evolved on azeroth. While Humans and the likes were planet there by the titans. And the Orcs and Draenei invaded/crash landed.
To be honest I still belive the Drogbar are the Troll ancestors and later evolved in to the Dire Trolls who became the regular ones (the Dire genes time to time resurface)
Their modell is eerily similar
This of course would rob them of their native status, but that is a price I am willing to pay for my theory and neatly explain the bitter Aqir-Troll enmity ; simply the racial memory kicked in
To claim that the blood elves were only added into the game because of them being a pretty race is also a pretty bit stretch to me, as with me refuting the other claim, its simply a thing one dev said at one interview and Iâm sure it played a role but no way its the whole story.
It seems people would easily forget that WC3:TFT had a blood elf campaign which a lot of people liked and wanted to have the elves playable for that specific reason, TBC even finishes the story line of the blood elf campaign specifically.
In general, a lot of things that people complain about with how blood elves were added into the game, started with that campaign, like it never happened.
So did the pretty element have a part to play? sure
do I believe it is a large part, enough to question blood elves being into the horde or even the game in general? no
And yes, belves and nelves are popular, elves in general are, mostly because their focus in other fantasy stories, mythology and folklore. That said I feel like Blizzard did a really good job at making their elves unique and has good reasoning for their placement in the game.
Unless all of that area is wiped out and destroyed and weâre walking into the new version of it: a void wasteland.
To be clear: Thatâs not what I want. Iâve never been a fan of âravaged and destroyedâ zones. Theyâre just not my thing; theyâre depressing.
Oh they wouldâve been added to the game regardless of that, sure. But them being part of the horde was very much simply a case of âthe horde needs a pretty race to appeal to more peopleâ.
If you would argue that if it wasnât for horde they still wouldâve been added as playable characters, Iâm not so sure on what would have made sense otherwise, reconsiliation with humans is atleast not what is implied with the ending of WC3: TFT for their campaign to again refer to it, because I still feel like WC3:TFT is the main reason we got blood elves in WoW in the state that we got them in WoW.
The way that campaign ends makes it very obvious; the blood elves had sided with the demons through Kaelâthas because Illidan promised them an alternative power source to quell their addiction. At the very least, they ended on not being on speaking terms with humans.
If the blood elves wouldnât have been horde, they wouldâve been antagonists allied with the legion, which is exactly what all the hostile factions of blood elves were; either following the legion indirectly by following Kaelâthas, or directly serving the legion.
Even if you ignore that, the blood elf remnants in Silvermoon City which are actualy playable and arenât Kaelâthas men (tho we didnât know in WC3:TFT that there was anyone still alive in QT) were in the far far north of the eastern kingdoms, in Quelâthalas in the actual wow game, with to the south of them being mostly Forsaken conquered horde land, which was ran by a high elven general who was raised into undeath, but regained her senses, completely isolated and far, FAR away from any alliance nation or people.
So yeah, the setup for belves in the Horde made sense beyond âpretty raceâ and if it wasnât horde, it wouldâve likely been the legion as antagonists
Ofcourse its all an opinion in the end, but I feel like I can provide enough structure for mine
Humans and elves are Azeroth-affected evolutions upon their original species. As such they have a greater claim for native-ness, than the rest of the Titan creations and their scions.
However, my point still stands that even Titan keepers are made from Azerothâs own materials.
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