Oh, -that- I agree with, definitely, I was more tongue in cheek objecting to just High Elves getting them, as some loons somehow think they were a High Elf thing only.
But yeah, either both get them, or neither, would be the fair way to do it.
Those are the silver covenant, and they are a sometimes neutral, sometimes alliance faction of HIGH elves. Blood elves and high elves are the same biologically but their eyes differ for ONE IMPORTANT REASON. Blood elves are those who have resided in Silvermoon & eversong for an extended period of time, the fel crystals that held up the structures in these places radiated fel into the elves that over time, turned their eyes green. High elves did not have this because they were those who did not want to join the horde or were outcasted for rejecting Kael’thas’ techniques for treating their mana hunger. (or they left willingly).
When the fel crystals came into place is not exactly unknown but my speculation is that they were used to help sustain the blood elf structures after the scourge invasion. This would make sense as the use of fel was a technique / solution used by Kael’thas.
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how can you say no and then contradict yourself in the very next sentence? ‘‘add at least one natural hair color (just 1) and the helf look would be complete’’ but borrowing more is not the solution? But even 1 hair colour would be borrowing… damn you didn’t think this out did you?
Silver Covenant is the largest faction of high elves, very light themed as well as rangers and mages as you say
Literal embodiment of head-canon. It’s funny, that used to be what people said about undead priests and then we had Legion with the character Alonsus Faol.
Not exactly, I mean actual Blood Elves who resided in Dalaran during the TBC era, like Lanesh the Steelweaver, he’s definitely a Blood Elf, but was never in Silvermoon during the TBC era, and his model reflects this, having Blue eyes. Like all Sunreavers, he fled Dalaran after the Purge, to Quel’thalas, and when we see him later, in Isle of Thunder, he still has Blue Eyes even after people had queried this and how, so it wasn’t a mistake. Also the Sunreaver mobs spawning during the Purge quests have an equal chance of having Green or Blue eyes.
Then you have Auric Sunchaser, who is most definitely a High Elf, but who when we first meet him at the Allerian Stronghold has fel-green eyes, (Because lets face it, he was living on Shadowmoon Valley’s doorstep) but his revamped model currently has regained his blue eyes.
The Silver Covenant, being exiles, naturally lived in Dalaran during the TBC Era, and all have blue eyes.
Interesting trivia point there, there is a High Elf Warlock trainer, Summoner Nolric, in WotLK, and despite being a Warlock, he still has blue eyes.
It very much seems to be a “Where were you during TBC” thing, rather than “Which faction you identify with?” thing.
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they will add them, need some time.
no it’s not? We do not have playable highelves, that’s why we ask them.
no. Alliance will be happy when we get highelves playable.
kinda true.
actually sanlayn elves will be playable too.
yes it does and already did. e.g. high /blood elves.
yes we will
D:, Dear diary…
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Yes, the but the player character is a Silvermoon elf, as signified by the starting zone…
This is explained by what you already pointed out about that NPC.
if anything it was probably an error (hard to say without looking into it)
if we were, they wouldn’t have given void elves normal skin tones
they gave it because to justify blue eyes for blood elves.
High and Blood elves are the same race.
Unless you wanna argue that a persons eye colour is a part of their race.
In which case… welcome to the Wehrmacht Herr Moontear.
if they are same, why they are in different factions? xoxo…
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Don’t bother arguing with alliance fanatics. They will not stop until they stole everything from us blood elves. They are greedy just like that.
using this logic, void elves can’t be an allied race either because they too are biologically the same as blood elves…
clearly allied races are based off variations of existing races with some exceptions.
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You should thank your lucky stars that elves even made to horde…you are actually alliance thing.
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Factions aren’t races.
By this logic, the political party you vote for determines your race.
That’s what the High Elves are. A political party.
which I would argue fits under the GAMEPLAY term ‘‘allied races’’
False they are not.
they literally are.
The Silver covenant is a political organisation, which is a splinter group.
Read lore.
SC elves are faction of highelves .
elves are race, what you talking about?
We are playable and will not change that. For the Horde! And for Silvermoon!
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You don’t know that. You -want- that, which is fair, but you can’t say “They will add them, needs some time” when there is no indication this will happen.
So you want an extra Allied Race, which is a reskin of Void Elves, which are a reskin of Blood Elves?
I don’t think you speak for all Alliance players. I think many would feel short-changed, especially when you can already look like a High Elf. I think there would be a lot of resentment if the Alliance got High Elves and the Horde, say, Ogres. And I think that anger would come from the Alliance fanbase…
Don’t agree with that person, it discredit’s your argument. They think that 96.4% of the Devs are Horde. Not favour Horde, we have questioned this, but -are- Horde.
Which is crazy. They also have some very unpleasant views on race and the role of women in society, seriously, not a good person to shackle your star to.
How do you know that? Not why do you think that, how do you -know- that?
Blizzard disagree and have said so in the Cdev discussions. Eye colour does not a Blood or High Elf make…
Maybe I’m looking at it from an RP realm perspective. I mean you can make a Blood Elf who lived in Dalaran, same as you can make a Human who was born in Westfall, or Lordaeron even. The starting player quests are not canon lore as to where you must came from, especially as some of them are exclusive. Did -All- Silvermoon Elves kill Dark’han Drathir? Were they -All- the one who carried Lor’themar’s letter to Thrall?
It is an indicative experience, in the same way that not every Goblin player was a rival to Gallywix, not every Worgen was at Prince Liam’s funeral and so on.
They covered it in a CDev interview when they explained how the Elven Eye Glow works, the specific wording was "Thats just what happens to any Elf who spends time around Fel, if you were a High Elf and went to Outlands, the chances are extremely high that you have Fel Green glow in your eyes. So they were pretty clear on it. It’s just something that happens to the Species as a whole, when exposed to Fel Radiation.
Seriously? Jaysis sufferin’ f- OK, So riddle me this. Why did the Napoleonic Wars happen, when the British were the same race as the French? Why did World War I happen? Why did World War II happen?
Weirdly this isn’t true. Void Elves are biologically different from both High and Blood Elves because of the Void Energies in their bodies, which have went so far as to change the actual colour of their -blood-.
That means cellular level, that means DNA (Not that Azeroth has discovered that yet) But they are no longer biologically the same.
Simply not true. Other Books exist than Tolkien. Elves are not an Alliance thing. If anything, they are an Elven thing, as they always look out for their own species first.
It is a mix between a political party and Veganism vs Carnivores…
It -is- a political distinction based on a dietary principle. I mean that literally is what the Exile was about!
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