I just wanted my big reveal that the cyclopean attendants of Oribos were tamed devourers, given their looks and suspiciousy crested helmets.
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It is both my blessing and curse to the roleplay community. If used wisely, it can be a gift for creative roleplay with half-species.
If used poorly, it will bring unspeakable horrors.
Cat’dorei have been around for a long time already.
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Spray them with water.
Aaaah, but do so at your peril. The mrrhglr’dorei do love their water.
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I don’t remember it being stated anywhere in Warcraft lore specifically, we just tend to assume it (like many other things about the Warcraft setting) because it’s such a universal fantasy trope.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ImmortalProcreationClause
Fantasy writers who actually give this issue any thought face a dilemma. If elves (or whatever the local long-lived race is) have children as frequently as humans, they’ll soon face overpopulation as they explosively outcompete all other races. If, on the other hand, they only have children once a century or so, then, considering all the dangers living in a typical fantasy world presents, they won’t be able to replenish their losses from wars and natural disasters fast enough, and will be doomed to extinction.
The typical fantasy writer deals with this problem by not dealing with it. Look, a pretty forest!
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I just imagine elves do a lot of bureaucracy and redtape. Sure, they might live in a forest and hug trees every day, but behind that tree is a massive civil servant office where an overworked and underpaid government official is reminding you that you need to fill out Form E72 (green E72, not pink E72 - that’s for bereavement) in triplicate by the end of this week otherwise it resets your mandatory waiting period for childbearing another decade.
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It’s time to Gnop.
It’s canon that draenei rarely reproduce and that a birth is a cause for community celebration.
Wasn’t the stormrage twins a big deal too? I’m also probably falsely reconstructing something about Alleria being surprised at getting pregnant at all.
Warcraft just plays with tropes without any complicated worldbuilding. Otherwise we’ll all be half-orc half-goblin in a few centuries as they outbreed our other fading, war culled species.
More likely than you think.
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Either Night of the Dragon or Well of Eternity, Vareesa states it.
Also Vereesa was suprised she was pregnant, and then suprised it was a twin aswell iirc.
Also I think the birth of the Stormrage twins was a whole thing because they were twins(which is, I suppose unheard of in Elven history) and one had the rare amber eyes!
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That one was explicitly because it was half-elves though, rather than elf pregnancy in general.
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That was probably it, then even if my memory screams it’s to do with Turalyon.
My takeaway from all this is that humans are exceptional breeders, countering elven nigh infertility.
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Fair point!
I would add upon that; the Windrunners are… Very fertile. They have 3 daughters and 1 son, which is more then any other Elven family in the known lore, thusfar.
Usually they have 1 or max 2 children? (With the 2 being based upon Malfurion/Illidan) and the Windrunners doubled that.
The real human potential.
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Make love, not warcraft. Azeroth dating simulator? Romance sidequest, ho!
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The high elves have historically only had a good relationship with Dalaran - otherwise Quel’Thalas has been an almost entirely isolationistic state that only occasionally dealt with the other human kingdoms. Prior to the First War two generations had passed since high elves were seen in Lordaeron, for example, and they quickly renounced their ties to the Alliance after the Second War. High elven priests arrived to aid Lordaeron during the initial outbreak of the plague, but depending on which source you read, they were either there on their own accord or were sent by the Thalassian state.
Even their relationship with Dalaran can often be surmised as “don’t do this so you won’t summon demons, silly humans.” It’s a rather patronising diplomatic relationship.
Edit: It has been roughly 14-15 years since the Third War in the current timeline and it would make sense to have seen more half-elves born since then, as the scattered populations of high elves have by and large been forced to live amongst humanity in Dalaran, Theramore (rip) and the odd high elf in Stormwind, but they would all be children still.
They got on pretty well with the Wildhammer.
Where are the dwelves?
They’re in all those RP profiles of high elves with suspiciously dwarflike curves, always shorter than average.
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Hype??
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