Having played Liberation of Gilneas it only makes sense that the answer is Forsaken, who saved them from a terrible invasion of Scarlet Crusaders.
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Kalimdor invaded by other races - who had brought back the Burning Legion.
Cenarius killed (temp) by demon blooded Orcs.
Still teamed up with invaders to fight the Legion, despite massive deforestation.
Sacrifice thousands of wisps and World Tree to beat Archimonde.
The list goes on throughout WoW, we doing this now? 
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I mean, honestly, can you blame them for having a grudge against the Blood Elves, and the Nightborne who were already part of the Horde, for allowing the continuation of the invasion of their lands by the Horde, then actually full on invade Ashenvale and wipe out every single village in their path up until Darkshore, then assault their world tree and capital, only to burn it down, all the while slaughtering every single Night Elf they came across?
The Blood Elf or Horde leadership showing up for a single battle doesnât even start to make up for what the Night Elves lost, so Maiev is rightfully angry with the Horde and the Blood Elves.
I would let that old âgrudgeâ bubble up, aswell.
But as I said, the Night Elves will probably still show up to save the Blood Elves and be a part of the reuniting of the Elven Tribe, but by God do I hope theyâll be snarky and salty about it all the way through, because they deserve it way more then the Silver Covenant, and it would be nice to have characters with actual reasons be snarky to Horde champions aswell, akin to the guards that shut off the Horde-part of the city
Lmao I was just about to say the same thing 
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I was managing to forget that, thanks >:(
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Did you think we had forgotten, did you think etc etc.
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I thought, which is more than the writers have been doing for a whileâŚ
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Donât get too negative now, people donât take kindly to sardonic commentary.
On topic, though:
https://bsky.app/profile/portergauge.bsky.social/post/3m4yzuy6hfk2p
Wretched are still a thing, I suppose?
I donât know what this means and it makes me angry! D:<
I wouldnât even say the topic of nelves taking part in Midnight is purely based on the old grudges, and more on the reason to participate in this war in the first place. If it was clearly shown as the matter of genuinely saving the world, it might have been seen in more acceptable light. But as it seems, the entire trouble of Midnight is about a humongous dark cloud hanging exclusively above Quelâthalas and the voidwalkers running amok there and there alone, unlike the Legion attacking every piece of land on the map. For those who arenât into Light or allied with the Horde itâs not unreasonable to question the very need to risk soul, life and limb for the sake of a neutral, if not outright hostile race.
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The frustrating part is - I get it. Itâs real and believable and good, actually, to have a living world where people/characters want peace and reconciliation. It makes it more believable, honestly.
But if thereâs no tension, no exploring and re-tabling of the past issues, or - worse - it all just gets wand-waved off screen? Thatâs bad writing AND massive missed opportunities. And that bugs the hell out of me.
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My biggest point of contention is how the second war vets are the epitome of tolerance and acceptance, where you would expect them to be the biggest hardliners when it comes to dealing with orcs.
I would love to see a new generation of characters trying to teach the old racist grandpa that there is another way.
You could have internal, external conflict and keep referencing old points, without needing to reframe former moments like theyâre doing with Turalyon.
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See, thereâd be some, sure.
But to draw from reality, the number of stories of post-war former combatants coming together ans reconcilling, becoming friends, communities etc is also quite high.
It doesnât have to be blanket forgiveness, Cal Art style writing like we get too much of. But acceptance and understanding are also valid paths to write, for Moving Forward.
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BRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAP
You can bully them into rewriting some rando quest, because who cares and itâs easy goodwill points.
You can not bully them out of yet another method of making more money.
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NOT just any race either, but the race whos ancestors were the very same elitist highborne that allowed the world to shatter and the demons to invade azeroth.
I know I called Night Elves wellfare queens but in honesty their mistrust of any Highborne is warrented to some extend.
Even if it is to their own detriment sometimes
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Iâve not got a problem with the night elves showing up again after an expansion of lying low. I donât even have an issue with Teldrassil being mentioned as a reason for why some night elves might be reluctant to help, as a bit of extra dialogue.
Iâm just hoping that the actual quests involving the night elves wonât be focused on this reluctance to help because of Teldrassil. Amirdrassil was the perfect opportunity for night elves to move on, after half a decade of focusing on the night elves avenging or regaining what was taken from them. There are other reasons for friction between night elves and blood elves than their participation in the Burning of Teldrassil, such as the original schism between them millennia ago and the conflict between them during the Burning Crusade. So if any narrative involving the night elves continues to be centred on what happened to Teldrassil and making up for it, Iâll be a bit disappointed, as it would make them seem a little one-dimensional.
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I mean obviously, the Night Elven incursion of the Ghostlands should be bought up by the Blood Elves, aswell. It would make a good story point for why the Blood Elves did not, or still do not, trust the Night Elves after TBC, etc!
BUT as I said before, the Blood Elves leadership showing up for 1 battle after the genocide during the War of Thorns & the Burning of Teldrassil and then the subsequent Battle for Darkshore does not, in the slightest, make up for what happened, with help of the Blood Elves, to the Night Elves and it is, and should be, a point that is brought up by the Night Elves.
Yes, the Dragons got a new World tree over the souls of the Night Elves out of it, and yes, the Night Elves got a new city out of it. It only took the invasion of 2 zones and the burning of a third.
I mean, people are still clamoring Vereesa should be punished for the Purge of Dalaran and Jaina should be punished for the killing of God-King Rastakhan and the invasion of Dazarâalor, and rightfully so. But that is what happened to the Night Elves on a way smaller scale.(which does not make it any less worse)
I suppose either we like it or not, the War of Thorns, Burning of Teldrassil and Battle for Darkshore were such a huge impact on the Night Elven story, almost akin to the War of the Ancients, that it will forever be the center of the Night Elven story going forward, and rightfully so. Even if we do not agree with how Blizzard handles it 
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Fixing up the Garrosh quest does show that they can write something good. They are capable.
They just donât want to.
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Apparently there was a Nisha quest that also got pulled from the build because they had wrote her as a completely new character too (warrior weary of war)
Pure comedy. Arcantina has been such a disaster so far.
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From an in-character point of view, sure. It makes sense that a tragedy of that scale wonât easily be forgotten.
From an audience point of view, making Teldrassil the center of the universe for night elves that they must revolve around until the end of time is really boring to me, considering the five years of attention that was given to stories about avenging Teldrassil and then replacing it with a new home. If the Purge of Dalaran or Rastakhanâs killing got that much attention from Blizzard, Iâd be bored of those two topics as well.
I donât have much more to say than that, so I just hope that there will be more to night elven involvement than grudges over the Burning of Teldrassil. People fell in love with that race because of their depth and history, so itâll be sad if they continue to revolve around this singular event for the rest of Warcraftâs lifespan.
On a more positive note, the replacement story is pretty good, but it had to be because of all of the eyes that were on it.
Before that, it was just a throwaway daily quest written for nostalgia bait, so I imagine that next to no thought was put into it. Just a dayâs work for an intern, I guess.
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