Read what you wrote again, you've already answered yourself there. Controlling herself =/= controlling void.
How is she not controlling the void when it's the sunwell reacting to it. If anything, the Sunwell is the unstable one. Light energy clashed with void energy, no master of either can change that.
Void corruption doesn't happen overnight, it starts as faint whispers and gets more and more dire and maddening slowly over time. We've seen enough examples of this since the start of WoW. As for cliches, since when Blizzard cares about having cliches in their story?
They care when that cliche makes a playable race unplayable... If the void elves were likely to go mad then we wouldn't be able to play them, thats whyw e can't play red orcs either.
/facepalm Of course we'll never see that happen due to gameplay reasons
the same reason why we don't see a player controlled forsaken completely rot away or a player controlled shadow priest lose their sanity beyond any return.
So you think void elves will all go insane and basically be enemies we should kill, but still be playable?
And the player forsaken is rotting, but he'll never go away because they replace their bodyparts frequently.
And yes, the player shadow priest literally has an ability called "surrender to madness" where they kill themselves. But the player is "immortal" and all that undefined nonsense.
Again, that was the first horde that came through the dark portal, not todays horde that was founded by Thrall. They stayed in alliance because Kirin Tor had already started feeding her anti-Blood Elf propaganda to Vereesa back then.
No, this is in playable time. In TBC the sunwell got cleansed, last patch. That is what I'm talking about, the blood elves were in the current Horde under Thrall in TBC, not the first Horde. If the high elves didn't have an issue with the Horde, they would have gone back to Silvermoon, yet wrath came and they were more Alliance than ever before.
Even if it was all about "anti blood elf propaganda" that is still a very inetresting story to follow.
Theramore this, Theramore that. Theramore bombing has been ordered by the bloodcrazed warmonger called Garrosh.
Yes, the Horde.
No single nation under the horde banners had the luxury refuse Garrosh's orders. Had Lor'themar defied the warchief, Garrosh would've rallied the rest of the horde to Silvermoon and wouldn't even take any prisoners.
If Lor'themar has just joiend the Alliance then Garrosh couldn't have done that. Plus do you think the other races would rally under Garrosh when he tells them "Lets kill the blood elves for not wanting to make a bomb to kill thousands of innocent people"
Yeah, I'm sure the Tauren would get pissed, and Vol'jin had already threantend to kill Garrosh so he wouldn't follow any orders. Sylvanas would probably just remain in the shadows not doing jack. Basically only the orcs and goblins would follow Garrosh still.
Stop picking quotes as you see fit, I never called High Elves bloodthirsty maniacs. I've said it for Silver Covenant, which is a very small portion of he High Elven population, and I'm still behind my words.
They have exactly the same reasons as I listed. The high elves in general or the Silver Covenant specifically. The SIlver Covenant has the most reason because they were the most invested personally.
And if the Silver Covenant is a very small part of the High Elven population then that nullifies the whole argument that high elves are too few, because the Silver Covenant is a full army, and is described as such, while the void elves are just described as a crack team. It is a sidenote but I felt like mentioning it since it's a common argument.
Lor'themar was considering the idea because what Garrosh had done was the last straw. Ironically, Jaina is the only one you have to blame for not having playable High Elves on the alliance.
No, jaina is to blame for not having playable blood elves. You didn't see any high elves try to stop her from cleaning out Dalaran.
Thing is though, bar a few Blood Elves who -made- the Mana bomb, there was no Blood Elf involvement in that.
Remember that it is a war, they only sit with information based around what side they're on. When they see blood elves dropping a mana bomb I doubt they're going to use their godlike video game powers to know and realize the whole picture, meaning they will hold them accountable.
I wouldn't necessarily regard the personal thoughts of someone who studied from the notes of the Scourge Magician who led to the death of 90% of their race as a good barometer of judgment.
Then we trust Sylvanas in the slightest?
Except that is -not- what happened. For a start, lets say it again... The Quel'dorei Exile had -zero- to do with Fel.
Thats part of the point I was making. I was responding to a point suggesting that since the fel is gone the high elves have no reason to not return to Silvermoon or something like that.
The High Elves did not 'give up their homeland to fight the Horde'
They did in TBC yeah.
The Exile was because they refused to take sustenance from living creatures after the Sunwell was defiled.
I know, but in not returning when they could, they gave it up, and that was because of the Horde.
They left when it was not a part of a faction, and they didn't return when their problem was fixed because it was a part of the Horde. Why els wouldn't they just return afetr TBC? According to Lor'themar they're more that welcome to.
They're Farstriders, or rather, they -were- Farstriders before the Exile, and right now, there is zero difference between them and the Blood Elf Farstriders. They both have the same lifestyle, culture, reverence for nature.
They ife in different lands, with different people, under different rules. We don't know about the Quel'danil lifestyle or detailed culture, or their reverence for nature in any actual detail. What we do know according to the new book is that the Blood Elves society, meaning all of them, is bitter, they don't want to celebrate anything anymore, even though they did before quite often. We have never heard the high elves being described as "bitter", yet not steaming fresh lore calls blood elves "as bitter as the forsaken".
There has clearly been a cultural shift. So if high elves are exactly like they were 11 years ago, then they would still be different than the blood elves on a cultural level. They just need to actually write it since we don't have anything new other than a few lines in game, and those few lines also go againstt he idea of blood elves and high elves being culturally identical.
Its not inconceivable they would return, given that Farstriders in general, were the least affected by the upheavals following the Sunwell's fall.
If they wanted to they would have done so in TBC when everything was pretty much great by the end of it. Now even forsaken don't want to be in the Horde, and blood elves are seen as bitter even after defeating the Legion. Unless blizzard write high elves as just as bitter, I don't think they would even fit in if they returned to Silvermoon.
Welp, he knows who he can blame for it not having rejoined the Alliance. That would be Jaina and Vereesa, and guess what, he just joined their side.
Blame them for punishing a war crime? These people are not gods looking in at the lore like the player does, they don't know the pieces to the puzzle.
Seriously, that guy is not a good person to base an argument on, his writing is all over the place
The fact that his writing is way too fast phase makes me think hes even more to be trusted. We know blizzard want him and the void elves to feel like a proper part of the Alliance. They're rushing them with little time to actually grow just to that they can get to the part of their story they actually want them for, thats what I'm thinking.
In a real world senario I wouldn't trust him either, but he is a permanent addition to the faction, which emans he can't really be anything but genuine as of yet.
I just realized I'm multible pages behind, but since these were directed at me I think I should answer them anyway even though someone elf might already have. This is my take atleast.