Yeah if you read what I typed that is the point I was actually making, One Ex-Employee said it, Blizzard never did say it.
I think that Genie is out of the Bottle now though. I agree, BfA would have been a good time to release High Elves as a playable race, only if they had not introduced, now that they have, it is too late. As much as it shocked many, some people actually really like their Void Elves and still do. There’s your problem. We’re already seeing Void Elf players complaining (rightly so!) that the new customisations they’re getting are almost all about looking like a High Elf. I can understand why that would annoy people. If You’re playing a race, you want your race to get some love, not a non playable variant. In honesty, any future customisations should be for -Void- Elves themselves, not the High Elf Variant.
Now, your idea of incorporating the two into a choice, in essence sounds like a good compromise, however I can see a few obstacles to it.
Renaming them from Void Elves is not going to make the Void Elf fans happy, they already lost out on customisations, now they lose the name as well?. You can’t very well just call them “Elves” as that implies that they are the dominant strain of the Species, and the Blood Elves are not, whereas it is the other way around, Blood Elves are the dominant strain (90% of the species) and High and Void Elves combined make up 10% of the species.
To try and explain that better, if you put an epithet before something, it is traditionally a sign that the thing with the epithet is ‘different’ from the other, historically in a negative way, for an example, look at the good old USA. You have African-Americans, Latino-Americans, Polish- Americans Asian-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, Italian-Americans and even more tellingly, Native-Americans (Yeah, the people who actually belong there) But what do you call a good old flag waving White person?
Why they’re just an ‘American’ It’s basically racism, as all those types of American I listed, have been historically discriminated against by ‘Americans’ and given a ‘lesser’ epithet.
So I think just calling them ‘Elves’ is out, because it implies they are the majority of Elves, when they are in fact the vast minority.
‘Alliance Elves’ would work though, as the implication is that their ‘special thing’ is that they are in the Alliance, so they have their epithet just as the Blood elves.
Anyway, thats enough about names (I just love nattering about Elven stuff)
Ehhh, this ain’t so great from a mechanics point of view. No Core or Allied race has that option, so this is suddenly a gamebreaker. To maintain parity, Blizz would have to go through every other Allied race, and every other Core race and give this same dual path option.
Then there is the problem of…
So essentially not just Paths, but Blizzard would have to work on different -racials- for the dual paths the other Races would also have to be given, and iconography (Oddly I can think of some other races this would work for)
You’re effectively looking at two races sharing a model, with different racials. So two Allied Races then?
That would put the Alliance ahead of the Horde by one Allied Race.
So obviously they would have to restore the balance by giving Horde an extra Allied Race. (Let’s say Mok’nathal, or even Purebreed Ogres)
These forums would explode. Alliance fans would be livid that Horde got a new toy, but they got ‘yet another’ Elf type. The Anger would be coming from Alliance side (and I could understand why!). Or lets assume they -didn’t- maintain Balance and the Horde got nothing, the anger would be worse (and still justified) because Blizzard had given Alliance an extra Allied Race. It would also really sour things for the more fair minded Alliance fans who would actually just have to take the insults on the chin that they are the “Welfare Faction” who needed an extra race.
This is why Blizz don’t do that, because to show Bias is to invite that kind of RL hostility between those people who only play one Faction or the other. Blizzard would be in a No-win situation, essentially.
Yeah but why? Paladins were never an Iconic Class for High Elves, that was Rangers and Magi.
Blood Knight Paladins are an Iconic Class for Blood Elves, but Paladin is not an Iconic one for High Elves. I think there are three of them in Lore. One even studied under Uther personally, Mehlar Dawnblade. Thing is though, he’s now a Blood Knight, and Horde.
Plus, you give Elves Paladin, that means you have to give a Horde race a class to balance it out (To be honest, that one’s a No-brainer, just give Zandalari Warlocks, It is ironic that the race who started off using Warlocks before anyone else did, is the one that can’t play them as a class 
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I’m gonna try and get this across to you again. Stop it with the Silver Covenant, they are -one- part of the Quel’dorei. Instead say that you want -High Elves- as otherwise you are diluting your message.
Yeah, I’ve been wandering around on my Draenei and I have seen some absolutely stunning mogs and things on Void Elves, and you just look at them and think “Yep, thats a High Elf alright”
Ah, is that the thing you sent me yesterday Jakafo? My Discord was not playing nicely last night, but yeah, perfect example, that’s two High Elves chillin’
and Thank you! I just wish we had at least (one natural hair color) regardless of what that color is. It would make the role playing a bit more realistic. But I will have patients to wait even if it takes 2-3 expansions to add. I mean I waited 15 years I can wait a bit more for a natural hair color.