Open discussion: Do you think Void Elves can be cured? And how?

Argent Dawn
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I would take it one further and say that most of them -should- do so.

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I don’t know to be honest, I am going off of what I could read on Wowpedia. I should perhaps listen the audiobook A Thousand Years of War again.

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Curse you for making me respond seriously, Vilesun!

No, I don’t but they did willingly research the void, granted some may have been coerced or pressured, but their transformation is still a consequence of their own greed, curiosity or weakness.

They became elves that studied the void. As a consequence, willing or not, they became void elves.

Too bad for them.

Truth be told, I play mine off as this, but hey. I’m aware that it’s partially a consequence of her choices in life, either direct or indirect.

If you want a real answer to the original question ‘do I think they can be cured?’

I don’t think cured is the correct word to use. If you’re asking if they can revert to sin’dorei, I say no. If you’re asking if they can be transformed into something else, then yes, probably. It is World of Warcraft, after all.

In my mind, the ren’dorei are welcomed into the Alliance as a strategic resource.

If they were restored to sin’dorei, what purpose would they serve within the Alliance? It may just be my jaded point of view but all I see being spawned from this is more uninspired snow flaking and lore-breaking.

As per ‘corruption’ or a ‘lust for power’, I view these things as being primarily a mental focus that tie in directly with the unique character’s psyche with a small but not focused element of external tampering more to thrust the ‘corruption’ in the appropriate direction.

It’s just my personal preference to develop a character from who they are into who they’re going to become rather than what they and what they’re going to become, queue Dragonball Z References.

To summarize though;

Instead of focusing on and labelling something as an inherent defect, it may be more promising from a narrative point of view to either embrace or put a spin on it that leads to further character development beyond ‘oh neat, I’m blonde again’.

Just my two cents.

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I’m sure hundreds of voidies will miraculously bumble into a cure the very day High elves are announced.

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Yes. High Elves who escaped into a time portal and have been trapped in stasis for over ten thousand years, no doubt. They will fly in on the wings of the Bronze Flight, wearing Hellscream tabards and then pledge their Allegiance to Nathanos Blightcaller, Warchief of the Horde.

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Making them horde would be the ultimate troll move to surpass the nightborne.

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Victim complex races beget victim complex factions.

It is known.

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I sincerely hope he’s killed off along with Sylvanas “Morally Grey” Windrunner.

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I think that with any affliction comes a cure. Some are more difficult than others to obtain. Though Undeads kinda get the short end of the stick in that case… It’s either Undeath or just death.

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Can they be cured? Yes.
Blizzard can easily will the cure into existence, perhaps even as a weapon of Horde meant to counter the purple arcane shenanigans.

Personal opinion on what would be better?
Make it a completely uncurable condition.
If you introduce a cure, what will technically stop them from taking a vacation from being a Void Elf to visit their beloved Sunwell and then go back to being an “exile”?

While Blizzard most likely won’t explore this, void elves losing their old lives permanently is probably a bigger change than whispers in their minds and purple-tinted arcane magic.
They did mess up. They meant well, but things turned out not the way they expected. Now the bridges are burned and they have gained pretty much nothing.
Awesome Void powers? While we won’t be seeing any real issues with them for at least a while, Umbric makes it clear that they don’t even fully control these powers. They want to break free and by using them you’re giving them a chance. Lore-wise, Void Elves should probably be the most anti-Void people in the universe right after Ethereals. They know how dangerous it is, it already ruined their lives and what’s left of these lives they owe to a sheer luck.

But hey, let’s not make things too dramatic.
Who wants Void dinosaurs?!

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Bang loud pipes near the velf repeatedly. Pop culture has taught us that the way to disattach dark creepy symbiotes is with loud noises.

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I don’t know, I mean with Magic ‘Anything’ is possible, but equally, the Void Energies have pervaded their entire body. It isn’t like Warlocks where they learned naughty magic, this literally physically changed them, from skin colour right down to the very cells in their blood.

No one even knows -how- they were made. They were an accident, and the only entity that knew what was being attempted exactly, was Durzaan, who is now destroyed. Even Alleria can’t replicate the process. Maybe Locus- Walker could? Maybe… if he knew exactly what Durzaan was trying, which he doesn’t, or exactly at which point Alleria stopped the experiment and in which order Durzaan had done things, which he doesn’t.

Nobody, not even themselves, knows how a Void Elf is made. Those Elves at Telogrus are studying the Void, they’re not Postulant Void Elves, as no one knows how to make any more of them.

I can only imagine any curing would be a painful process involving the Light, possibly prolonged, but it would likely take a supremely powerful entity to do so, its not like your local paladin could just hand wave it away.

As things stand currently? I don’t think it is possible to cure them with current knowledge. Will it -ever- be possible? Who knows.

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A while ago id have made this exact same argument but Blizz has supposedly in an interview confirmed that more Void Elves can be made. If a bit vague. At least that was my understanding. Im open to being corrected.

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To be fair it wouldn’t be too far out of the narrative for Void Elves, seeing as by and large there seems to be little to no negative side-effects to what they’re doing/have done. :triumph:

I angrily sip my tesco’s own brand wine.

No but for real, I don’t see the point - while I am sure it could make a very interesting path for roleplay - why have a character/group go through a traumatic event just for it to be fingerclicked away a moment later?

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Yeah I can agree with that, in the end of the day it was more just for the fun of actually wondering it and hearing other people’s thoughts. While I do sometimes to some extent have mild regrets about making my Belf a Velf because I do miss the times she was a bit happier. I am still enjoying the RP ive gotten out of it quite a bit from a character that was otherwise struggling to find RP on hordeside during Legion.

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Not really contributing anything useful to this topic here.
Can it be cured? Perhaps it could, seeing as the Light is capable of bringing dead back to life and purifying a Dreadlord or even a Demonhunter - Yeah, sure, why not. But I belive this would only be for the most powerful of the powerful lore characters and less for the ‘Guard who had it coming for playing guard for a bunch of exiles - I mean… HE HAD IT COMING’ :smiley:

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I for, some reason, think that “cured” Void Elves will be Blizzards way of adding Quel’dorei to the Alliance in the future.

That way they can see they are actually Void Elves who choose to be cured, instead of Blood Elves who joined the Alliance or Silver Covenant High Elves who the Blood Elves really, really hate for some weird reason… :stuck_out_tongue:

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I’m not entirely sure if void “corruption” can be removed, neither can holy “blessing”, it’s not like Fel or Arcane which seem to be mutable and can be cancelled out, the “divine” powers don’t have that “off button” to remove it.

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Theoretically? Honestly, who knows. I personally doubt it. The void’s a pretty damn corrupting force to begin with. If it’s so dangerous for any of the other races to even dabble in it (i.e. shadowpriests, some warlocks) without risking insanity, imagine how hard it would be for someone whose entire body and mind have become linked to it.

I think an interesting question to ask would be: how much does anyone really know about any aspect of the void elves’ condition? I mean, the whole transformation was basically an accident forced upon them. And as far as we know, it’s brand new, the ren’dorei are really the first of their kind, the only really “comparable” things we have are void ethereals and Alleria, which aren’t perfect comparisons. It might be that no one in lore really knows whether they can be cured or not, so how can we as players?

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The only cure for this corruption is a pyre!

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Pretty sure this will be expanded upon in the old god/voidlord/void-themed expansion.