I mean…creating them was the wrong, in the first place. Sorry. That’s nothing against people who like Voidies, or play them or want customisation for them (Though they need to wait their turn) but the very concept of Void Elves, and how they were implemented was absolutely idiotic and produced a lot of problems. Now that isn’t a player problem, that is someone at Blizz needing to be called into an office, asked to sit down, and then asked “What the everliving heck were you thinking?”
They make very little sense. The only way I can rationalise it, as a lore fan, given that Blood Elves are -Totally Cool- with Shadow magic, given that even Anduin ‘Holy Bones’ Wrynn was cool using Shadow Magic on his -own- people sent to rescue him during MoP is the Dark’an Drathir thing. That makes sense. That is the Elf who was directly responsible for the near annihilation of his whole species by unlocking the door for Arthas to march his Scourge army in.
Only then does the Void Elf scenario make sense. “Yeah, you learned to do what you do by working from the notes taken from the person who got 90% of our entire species killed” I mean objectively that is like turning up to a synagogue and going “I read this really cool book called Mein Kampf, it has some interesting ideas in it!” It’s going to annoy people. I mean logically it should actually annoy the High Elves even -more- than the Blood Elves as they got the double whammy of losing 90% of their friends and loved ones and -also- got Exiled as a result of that. High Elves should have an absolute burning hatred of Void Elves…but it is what it is…
Vereesa shouldn’t have an army. At the very best she leads a Sectarian paramilitary organisation without any officially granted authority. She calls herself a Ranger-General, but she never actually earned that rank. She never even finished Farstrider training before she went off gallivanting with Rhonin and becoming an underage teenage mum. (Yes Blizz, that was, and is, incredibly creepy to allow to have happened) She can’t even technically call herself a Farstrider, let alone Ranger-General!
Alleria, as the oldest Windrunner left alive, would be the logical choice to lead, as out of Her, Sylvanas and Vereesa, she is the only one who actually -did- earn her rank.
That aside. I think almost everyone would be pretty cool with some more customisation, and maybe for Void Elves to start calling themselves High Elves. They’re still a tiny amount of people with no known means of creating more of them (Nobody mention Telogrus Rift, as I will have to explain that -again-) but they are enough to be playable, and as such are a viable Allied Race.
The ruler of the High Elves shouldn’t even be Alleria either. She has literally just come back to Azeroth for the first time since the Second War ended. Vereesa is just a kid, and there are better characters who could fill that role.
The Obvious one, would be Auric Sunchaser. He’s a Captain in the Army, not the Farstriders, but still that is a position of respect, which he will have to have earned. He also even has the grudging respect of the Blood Elves to the extent that he is allowed to hang around the Sunwell as and when he likes…I mean no other High Elf has that gig going on. Even Rommath hasn’t kicked off about that, and Rommath is so grumpy he could start an argument in a room if he was on his own!
You’ve got Ranger-Lord Renthar Hawkspear, who is pretty cool, he was the 3iC of the armies of Quel’thalas during the Scourge invasion, a brother officer of equal rank to Lor’themar Theron, and pretty darned tasty in a fight, going by lore sources.
You’ve got Priestess Aurora who is so powerful and confident in her abilities that she BTFO’s Lor’themar, or rather, makes him see her point of view at least. I mean that takes some serious stones… That could have went with Lor’themar just going “Oh, Fair enough, that’s how it is, I’ll just send a hundred troops over tomorrow and annihilate you” But she was able to use that Soft Power approach, to make him reconsider his position.
You’ve got three solid contenders there for a High/Void Elf leadership that don’t include that retconned wet drip Vereesa who never even existed in lore.
I mean I agree. They should just conglomerate the Void Elves and High Elves. As few as they are, the Void Elves would at least bolster the numbers of the High Elves, which can only be a good thing, as they would certainly need it by now.
Problem is, whilst sensible people will go “Yeah, just link them up and work with that” You will still get people asking for unrealistic things. You could even call them ‘High Elves’ and you would still get people screeching “Silver Covenant! Silver Covenant!”
I don’t think they even know what they want themselves at this rate…Which means they’ll get nothing…
-kill-it-with-fire” level of too much
