Your point is ridiculous. The Dark Trolls evolved into Night Elves due to the influence of the Well of Eternity. Magical infusion triggered evolution.
The Night Elves banished the Highborne, who without the energies of the well of eternity changed into High Elves.
The High Elves RENAMED themselves the Blood Elves, and Void Elves were a forced evolution triggered by being infused with massive amounts of void energy that, amongst other physical changes, turned most purple, caused them to sprout tentacles and bleed purple.
In each case, evolution.
Only the Blood Elves and the Alliance High Elves are identical, because all that is different there is an adjective and an opinion.,
There has literally not been enough time between the blood elves and void elves for it to be considered “evolution” hence they look the same. They’re just infused with a different energy source which yes might eventually make them drastically different but at the moment they’re basically the same just as high elves and blood elves are “basically the same”
Alleria does not have tentacles, she doesn’t have purple skin and yes they have void powers but that’s irrelevant to their biological markup. She doesn’t even have purple eyes, they’re blue like a high elf
The rest of them didn’t get their powers by eating a Naaru.
Void Elves also have blue eyes, a colder shade than Blood/High Elves though.
And I am afraid “they have void powers but that’s irrelevant to their biological markup” is absolutely and demonstrably wrong.
First off, the purple bleeding. Blood Elves bleed red. Void Elves bleed purple.
Secondly, Void Elves can…and in most cases do…sprout tentacles. Now I don’t know about you but if someone I knew sprouted tentacles it would definitely be a new biological fact about them.
Thirdly, most Void Elves are blue to purple in tone.
And finally…they have a set of void themed RACIALS rooted in their biology. I mean the very existence of those proves you wrong. Entropic Embrace, ETHEREAL CONNECTION, Spatial rift…
I’m not disputing the fact that when elves get corrupted by different types of energies they completely change in one way or another. They are a “sponge race” that absorbs whatever they come by. Like when blood elves eyes turned green after they absorbed fel energy
BUT - with your logic, blood elves who abused fel energy and those who didn’t should be two different races. One with green eyes and the other with blue/yellow eyes
Eye colour is mutable for thalassians. Hence they got green eyes for a time when crystals containing fel magic, which the general population didn’t know about, were used to sustain the magic holding up Silvermoon. That eye colour has changed since, with Blood Elves getting blue, golden and purple eyes since.
Those who REALLY abused fel though became felblood elves. You can find them in Outland. Just as those Elves who consumed too much fel changed, those who were infused with too much void changed. I mean, you did suggest the parallel, clearly not expecting there to be one with the Felblood Elves. But there is.
The Haranir were intended to become an allied race at the culmination of the War Within as the ‘rootlands’, now known to be Harandar, was going to be the final zone. It was even listed in datamining.
When Metzen came back he created the worldsoul saga, which is why we had the very obvious break in the narrative with the Haranir as they were held back to Midnight and their zone became a Midnight zone and we went to K’aresh instead.
Instead, the Elven storyline is like equivalent to the Earthen, done for the most part by the conclusion of the first tier.
12.1 is a troll raid and content, and then 12.2 will likely take us to a new area to bridge into the Last Titan. Tell me, how much content did the Earthen get in 11.1 or 11.2?
Green, denoting fel corruption. When the Sunwell was destroyed, the blood elf magisters rebuilt Silvermoon using demonic energies; living in proximity to this gave many blood elves fel-green eyes.[136] The corruption will fade eventually, but the process takes time.[62]
By the time of the war against the Primalists, enough years have passed for some blood elves’ eyes to return to their original blue color.[137][138]
https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Blood_elf#Eyes
138 ^ Millenium Interview with Anne Stickney and Katherine Bankson - Narrative and Lore Questions in Patch 10.2
Katherine Bankson: “Blood Elves can have blue eyes now, it’s not just a customization available to players! Time has passed since the game’s debut, some Blood Elves have golden eyes now while others have returned to their original blue color. The fact that such guards exist is not only related to the customizations available to players, but also and above all to the fact that time has passed since Blood Elves found themselves infused with Fel, giving them this greenish eye tint.”
They didn’t consume fel, and refuse to drain mana out of living creatures, refused to ally with the enemies of their race, trolls orcs and undead. Just because you refuse to accept facts, does not make them non existante.
The Worldsoul Saga is a trilogy but it’s also one combined narrative, which means things like the delayed Haranir zone/race (and a delayed High Elf race) are made possible.
In previous expansions you’d basically have until the final patch, then it’s on to something entirely new. In the Saga, any plot thread from either of the three expansions can be picked up and continued all the way until around 2028 or 2029, whenever it all ends.
