I don’t think the idea is that you are a High elf, rather they are giving us the option to pretend to be one.
As they said “you could be anything you want to be in Wow”
They said “we won’t create another starter zone for these options, so you will still play a Wildhammer in Bronzebeard territory. However you can still call yourself one, regardless of what the
quest text says.
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