If you are talking about High elf fans in general, then please don’t group us all together like that. I am a High elf fan myself and I’m completely 100% happy with what we are getting in Shadowlands. Never asked for anything more other than maybe black hair, which can be seen by Void elf NPC’s in Stormwind.
If two or three people asked for unreasonable things in the forums, it’s not the end of the world. I don’t agree with them AT ALL, but you guys are acting like it’s the end of the world. As if blizzard will actually listen to three people demanding stuff? Have you forgotten they ignored us for 15 years or rejected our suggestions? What we got in beta is a blessing I never thought would happen
There are some Void-colored (i suppose i can call it that way) colors for the Void Elves i thought about, first it’s pure black, not natural black hair which is just a really dark tone of brown. It’s even on the Void Elf files and some NPCs even in live have it:
In the other extreme, pure white, though white is not usually thought as a Void or Shadow color, Alleria in her “Void form” after consuming Lu’ura show this tone of hair. Recently a texture bug or a side-effect of developing work on hair textures in beta that made some NPCs including Void Elves to show a textured blank hair, and weirdly enough it looked good.
https://i.imgur.com/0O23DVH.jpg?1
Took this from the NA forums.
Make it with a proper hair texture and it voila.
The good side of Black and White hair is that they can be used for both Void Elf and High Elf fantasy, since the colors are very neutral and don’t feel out of place from either High Elf or Void Elf customization, and it can work for RPers of both sides.
I think deep red and burgundy tones can see use too.
But -why-? Paladin was never an iconic class for either Kaldorei, or High Elves or Void Elves (Definitely not the latter)
It was never part of Kaldorei culture. Sure there is one. Zen’kiki can ‘hilariously’ turn into his aquatic druidic form on land. Can the player Druid? Should the player Druid be able to?
There were I think about three named High Elf Paladins, one of whom is now a Blood Elf. High Elves were known for their rangers and mages, as well as priests. They were never known for their Paladins. Only the Blood Elves kind of militarised Paladins in a similar way to the Alliance, and that happened -after- the High Elves were exiled.
As for Void Elf Paladins.
Eh…No. makes zero sense, and in fact contradicts the very definition of something ‘making sense’.
Alliance does -not- need Paladin Elves. Plus, that would mean giving an extra Class to every other Allied Race, and probably Core race as well. What would your suggestions be?
All we need for Blood Elves is Red eyes restricted to 1-3 Undead Skin tones , and there we can finally look like Dark Rangers, while Void Elves have their Void / High Elf form, and Void Elf needs to inherit belf hair colors the same way they did skintones .
Ehh, not so convinced. Dark Rangers only work for Hunters, Rogues and -maybe- Warriors and Monks. And female ones at that.
They’d be better lorewise at giving the skin colour options to say, Darkspear Trolls, give them greens, so they could play as Amani/Revantusk Trolls. Obviously not Amani on RP realms, as they are an enemy to both Horde and Alliance, but the Revantusk are part of the Horde.
I reckon Dark Rangers are best staying unique as they are, as pure NPC’s, rather than playable.
Actually, if you define paladin as a priest (holy) warrior the sisterhood of elune would be a great fit for the class. We already have sunwalkers represented by paladins for tauren, so paladin can be more than just a light worshipper. We are even getting more lore about elune on the next expansion, so developing that part of night elf society and give it representation doesn’t seem out of place to me.
Oh yeah, and I have always maintained that Paladin is just a word for a Holy Warrior, hence Prelates, Vindicators and Sunwalkers being equally as valid as Silver Hand Knights.
They exist, for sure, I referenced one of them (I didn’t know there was a second one)
What I more meant is that they are not as of yet, an -Iconic- thing For either Night Elves or High Elves, in the same way as say, a Blood Knight is, or a Knight of the Silver Hand, or a Vindicator.
Those are kind of Iconic to their respective races, I suppose thematically a Night Elf Paladin would be some extraction of the Night Warrior type, which would make sense, it being a thing from Elune.
They are certainly not iconic, but there’s case for a playable class to them, but i don’t feel the same about Paladins for Void Elves. I’m one of the few who think Shamans could be an interesting concept, based on the Twilight Hammer Elementarists who used Shadow Powers to bind and enslave Elementals.
Talking about the Twilight Hammer, these freaks also had Dark Paladins, idk they were cool.
Sort of like Anti-Paladins from AD&D weren’t they? Intriguing idea.
I mean I suppose it -could- work, on reflection, as Paladins rely on faith, whether in The Light, in An’she, in Loa, and even then a Human Paladin is different from a Vindicator despite it ostensibly being ‘The Light’ that both call upon.
No, Dark Paladins are exactly what the name suggests.
A Paladin with their powers gifted to them by their dark deity.
Steel Brightblade of the dragonlance series/setting was the first (iirc) example of a Dark Paladin.
Before him, a paladin had to be lawfull good. They changed its emphasis to lawfull part over the good part so that you could have paladins of dietys who were not good.
Takhisis (known as Tiamat everywhere else) who is goddess of chromatic (ie standard colour) dragons is listed (again, iirc) as lawfull evil usually (tho the dragonlance alignment scale slid from lawfull good thru to chaotic evil, only system I know of which did this)
Steel was the first of her Dark Paladins, he was lawfull evil, much like his mother.
Iirc “anti-paladin” is something different. It may look like a dark paladin, be evil like a dark paladin. But paladins, even ones of a dark deity, don’t get a natural ‘anti-magic’ shell generated automatically like the old death knight auras were (in that they couldn’t be turned off)
It was a niche thing that happened what, sometime in the 2nd edition days? Did they move them into the later versions?
They must have been popular with a certain type of player (ie edgy boi type) because they annoyed some player groups enough to become a bit if a meme back then.
