You did not just admit to swimming in my beloved Well of Eternity, did you, damn Warlock! D:<
Iâll tame her in future.
Anyone would think the Void Elves have been to the Sunwell and destroyed it and we blood elves are desperate yet again.
I guess something is missing here, or you intended to replace people with others 
True, but significant less after the whole Azshara debagle, and their lost of eternal youth.
Well for me Illidan always seemed like a narcissist, with good intentions, so if you want to call him good it would be chaotic good.
E.g. In War of the Ancient at the fight of Black Rock Hold, Illidan decides to draining all the magical energy from his fellow moonguard sorcerers, since he believed, that he is the only one as can defeat the demons, instead of attempt a combined attack. Also notice how easily Xavius convenience Illidan that he is better than Malfurion, and that Tyranda is better of if Illidan kills Malfurion.
Or the countless of other artifacts he has been chasing to empower himself. (since he is the chosen one, insert ember eye here) 
Or even in Legion he opens the portal to Argus without thought of the millions of lives he is risking doing that,
But I do agree that we hear more about they nature connection than their elune connection, priesthood seems lore wise like a much larger part of night elf than druidism. Yet druidism is mostly what we hear about in-game.
However I believe two of the main reason this is happening, is to have a clear distinction between blood elf and night elf (for non-lore people).
And that most players, play at daytime, having night elf constantly talking about the moon and stars might seem a bit weird during daytime.
And while I think it could be cool to have a faction mainly active at night I just donât think it would work that well, sadly 
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Really? I guess you learn something newâŚtbh I have never seen that mentioned once. Itâs pretty significant if it is, even if only mentioned once. Do you recall where you saw this? Or is it a deduction? If a deduction, where do you draw this conclusion from? If a theory, what makes you think so?
As far as I know from lore sources, Nordrassil acts as a regulator for the arcane energy flow and pulse of the Well effectively disguising its arcane power signature (which draws the demons and is how they get to Azeroth) from the twisting nether, acting as a buffer also making it impossible to draw on the power of the well directly, even if you are linked to it like all night elves (incl nightborne by deduction) are. You have to go through the tree first - this is why Archimonde had to go to the tree itself, and though in front of the well, its energy was still disguised amd he couldnât draw itâs arcane power until he had tinkered enough to bypass it - probably by destruction (though it never gets that far as the wisps destroy him.)
We do know Azshara was also able to have her palace highborne and some demons cast a spell that locked every night elf out of accessing the well to cast spells, even though they were linked to it - [WotA trilogy] so Alexstrazsaâs tree strategy had precedence.
However the energy has always been arcane, the moonwells are made from waters from it and are arcane waters ritually purified then harmonised with the land through the efforts of the druids (arcane first, with divine I.e. Elune 2nd, working with nature 3rd to enhance life) before they can optimally boost the land. This is because the arcane boosts life and nature, this was established in night elf lore that states it is the arcane energies that increase theirnlifespan, make them more intelligent, stronger and bigger, it does that to the animals and nature around the well. The night elves have always used the arcane to improve life and quality of living, whether it was also wielding spellwork at the sorcerer level or in a more indirect way via the moonwell s during the long vigil. And arcane and nature have gone hand in hand with Elune in the night elves from the start, all through the pre sundering era, the empire and the long vigil. Which is why i always challenge those who think night elves hate the arcane or have nothing to domwith it, and point out the difference between wielding the arcane for spells, and passively using the arcane, and how ut has always been a part, even if one group didnt do magecraft, they still used it, while other groups like the shenâdralar and nightborne never stopped, and the high elves on exile from the long vigil goup resume, even though they cease to be night elves by virtue of becoming diurnal.
In Warcraft universe, arcane boosts nature. Its complex and volatile nature made understanding it deeply beyond the grasp of mortal races until the night elves were the first intelligent and determined enough to unlock its secret to an advanced level that produced the sorcerer or mage class, which at the height of their civilization I suspect meant a lot more than what modern mage title ensues.
Now the blessings by the dragonflights, and Nordrassils link to the emerald dream enables the night elves of the long vigil to gain a nature magic empowerment in addition to the arcane empowerment that is intrinsic to them (evidenced by the silver arcane glowy eyes), the nature empowerment occurs when the night elves gathered there are linked to Nordrassil by the dragons and Cenarius. This is why the shenâdralar and nightborne donât get that empowerment.
The high elves upon exile are severed from this link by the druids and Cenarius. As far as I know, the arcane empowerment link to the well is also severed. This is why they become very vulnerable and frail during the exile, their skin loses its purple hue, eyes stop glowing, lifespan shortens, stature decreases, and we must assume intelligence drops, although the arcane wielding when the sunwelll is lit boosts that up again - as you must remember mages use the arcane sources they have to artificially amplify their intelligence. Nightnelves maybe highly intelligent naturally by virtue of being flooded with arcane power, butnwithoutnusing the arcane power dpformspells, they wonât be artificially amplifying that high intelligence even further like they did in pre-sundering times, and like it is safe to assume shenâdralar, Nightborne, Moonguard all do, making them more intelligent than the druid or priest kaldorei or any talented nightnelf who hasnât yet learnt the technique to do so.
It is also worth noting, the night elves while empowered by the arcane well internally do not utilise its power. This is part of the reason the high elves hold them in such contempt, because they have this power, incl the 2nd Well of Eternity in their control during the long vigil, a more powerful source than the sunwell and do nothing with it.
When Rommath is in Suramar and sees the power of the nightwell, he remarks the things the high elves could have achieved if they had this power. Ofc, the nightborne locking themselves in a shield with finite space are probably a disappointment too to Rommath, as they havenât done much more than 10k years ago with it, either that, or he is looking first hand at Suramar, and seeing what the night elves achieved with such power and wonders how much more the high elves could have done with such a source (presumably rather than squander it in superstition like the long vigil kaldorei, or take it for granted like the nightborne using for party tricks rather than serious development - I would imagine)
Nordrassil being a seed from Gehanna in the emerald dream allows it access which Ysera capitalised in her gift, allowing druids in her pact to access the dream easier, but also providing a measure of linking to the nature energy of the emerald dream.
It is through this knowledge I theorize that the night elves can regain a measure of nature empowerment via linking to Shaladrassil which is connected to the Emerald dream (remember Valâsharah is moulded in the image of the dream and shaladrasssil is where the heart of the nightmare corruption is. The land is the place where the comnection to the dream is strongest and that tree boosts it. If, they are linking to the nature energy of the dream world and Shaladrassil is the anchor - I theorize this can allow them some benefits and boosts regardless of dragon blessings. It was dragon blessings that gave the benefits during the long vigil via Nordrassil, this new arrangement will have different benefits this time round, at the very least, it will enhance the nature powers their druids and hunters cast, just like the arcane well could enhance the arcane powers their mages, priests and druids wield.
Agreed, Azshara was vain glorious - a new level of vain. But people forget that while night elves are more humble, and not reckless anymore, having learnt the lessons of the past. They are still vain, they llove beautiful things and still try to use their magic, whether nature or arcane to boosts things to a better place.
Nothing wrong with that, but it is a bit vain. A tauren would never decide he should boost nature to make it better. Nature as it is is nature. The night elf would make a moonwell and boost the land regardless, so it is better. And when he is able wield the arcane for spells, he woukd also use it to enhance his life and make epthings even better and nicer.
Now this isnât necessarily a bad thing though a little vain, it is only problematic when you become obsessed with that to the exclusion of all else, this is what happened just before the 1st invasion and is considered a product of addiction
i sure did Moridunum the well is now forever tainted by my passing that tiny sliver of fel corrupting it 
The common Night Elves love their beautiful forests. Darkshore is an example. Ashenvale is certainly an exam. Preserving Hyjal and feeling remorseful over Felwood.
That is their thing.
When it comes to the Highborne outlook, for their descendants, it is still about the beautiful cities. Suramar, Silvermoon, Iâd even say the Ruins of ZinâAzshari for the Naga - these places all marvel in Highborne creation and the Highborne descendants of these places seek to preserve these cities. Nature is a second thing.
The QuelâThalas descendants live in a forest, where their Highborne ancestors timelocked the region into an eternal spring. The Suramar descendants have only just left their city and everything they are doing is to preserve Suramar.
Now the similarities between QuelâThalas and Suramar is that each had a particular tree that they cared for, but this is exactly what I mean by a âsecond thing.â It wasnât the forest, it were two separate trees. Neither societies care for whole forests, which is fine. I like them being like that.
QuelâThalas lost their itâs sacred tree, whereas Suramar still has itâs.
You donât think it is more neglect, and the by product of that was that night elves just appeared to be more druidic than arcane or Elune linked, or star linked?
I have come to believe ( and this is just my opinion based on observation) that blizzard donât seem to intentionally distinguish races by saying this will be the arcane lot or that will be the nature lot. They give races their stories and the main thing they are about and run with it, letting the story organically grow and define the features of the race within the broader context of their intended framework. This causes overlaps in some areas, certain things to be emphasized in one group over the other. But each has its own distinct vibe. The night elf over the blood elf off is the purple skin, night kingdom, silver glow eyes, the whole ancient elven thing and the strong arcane, nature and religious goddess vibe - in co trust to high elf, day theme, goods and reds, but a different arcane focus more fire/frost, added to a light paladim/priest and nature farstriders ranger hunter vibe. Night elves have equivalent to all these, not opposites, their focuses in each of these areas is different. Their arcane is more star/moon/astral magic related and has its own issues with their unique story, their religion is goddess based with symbolism to the moon and a direct tie to their arcane well, of eternity very different from the blood elves Light Paladins and priest focus, whereas the high elves have the whole farstriders ranger hunter story, while the nightnelves have an exclusive female warrior hunter sect and this entire druid section. Different, not necessarily opposites, just do different emphasis and focuses because they are different groups and not written such that if they do one thing with blood elves then they must do the opposite with night elves. No, they gave each their story, nightnelves from the ancient world, and high elves from the founding of quelâthalas, and each has a separate journey that frames and determined what happens and how they develop and preupsumanly grow or comeback after heavy losses,
The thing is they donât usually spend enough time on one race in game to show you everything (unless itâs humans and orcs), so what happens is every instalment they get to a race they show more.
Take night elves, early interviews blizzard stated the aim of the night elf was to be a fusion of the best of the dark elf and the forest elf - this is an arcane and nature combo, adding the Elune and star bits as a unique flavour.
When we first meet night elves, although we are told of their arcane mastery and affinity in the manual, it is the female warrior sentinel priests that dominate them. If you played wc3 first you would think the druids a background thing despite Malfurion and that night elves were mainly a female led group.
It would take the next instalment, I.e. classic for you to see how strong a part druids was - the deep arcane basis would take reading the novel most did not and actually reading the quests and following the story about the well of eternity most did not.
This illusion is compounded for the less lore interested players by the fact that you never see night elves except where druid class stuff shows up. This is true in TBC and WOTLK, and it compounds the druid image more to the player who doesnât read the lore but levels over and over gain. Doesmthisnmean the nightnelf is more druidmthan sentjinelmornarcane because ofnthendruidnshowings in tbc/wotlk? The lore makes itmclear no, seeing night elves only showmupmwith druids doesnt invalidate wc3 or the stuff about the well of eternity, or Elune or their arcane essence. Its just you arent shown that yet
True to calling though, the next time blizzard focus on advancing the night elf story comes in cataclysm, and here we see a much bigger arcane focus built up, cut short again due to resources, but all of a sudden it seems a surprising change to a lot of pkayers who habemt been going based on lore detail, but based on what shows up in game, this is because all theyâve seen of night elves is the druid stuff, unless they played wc3 or read WotA trilogy, but the time passed makes it seem that is all what night elves are about though the lore always said they were made from the arcane, the well was central, the priesthood led the people, the ban was on arcane spell usage from the well as sorcery and not any use of the arcane or drawing from the stars or moon.
And yes, when the big focus comes in Legion, we get 2/3rds of it about the arcane legacy in the highborne and their modern nightborne counterparts, we get a lot on the demon hunters which while having blood elves has most significant characters as night elves we also see other parts like Wardens, not seen since wc3.
So this is why I think it is more a matter of timing and neglect
I give you this partially, since if they did spend more time on it, they could differentiate the two factions for people mainly playing the game (and skipping most quest text).
The reason I think itâs mainly done to differentiate is that they seems to be eachothers exact opposites (a great way to differentiate stuff )
Blood elfs for most no lore people I have talked with, is seen as arcane and light focussed (the burning crusade trailer, the sunwell and the fact that their zone is so bright is so of the things as helped establish this view)
While night elfs is seen as nature (they lives/lived on a giant tree in giant forests with living trees, they gods is animals) and shadow (in this case I donât mean as spell type just as theme) focused.
They also seems close to oppersites in color red vs dark purple and light colored silver vs dark colored gold.
However if we look at Suramar it seems to be somewhere in between the two variations (with they arcane and shadow theme).
The city itself reminds me more of the blood elfs cities (with their tall beautiful builds), but painted with the night elf color pattern.
Even story wise (for non-lore person) I assume it seems closer to the blood elfs story than that of night elfs, emphasized by the night well, and the still present invading forces.
This is pretty much accurate, but may I delve into a little bit more depth, because there are nuances here too. Do pardon the length, itâs a good read, take your time, a lot of research went into itâŚ
- We auto assume night elves arenât interested in cities and civilization - I challenged this thought once and concluded it is because of how we first saw them presented.
Later, I noticed the Darnassians were quite keen on building a city, in classic release on Teldrassil, I also read WotA trilogy, and discovered Malfurion and druidism specifically didnât care for cities and structures, just the beauty of nature, not all night elves, and thatâs not all
- I realised that all night elves, in fact all elves love beautiful forests, high elves were depicted that way in the tales of Eversong Woods, and this was confirmed in blood elves starting area when the treants were stated as formerly being friends, also confirmed with the Botanica instance where blood elf botanists could even shapeshift to treants and an Ancient was working with them.
The evidence continued as in the height of the night elvesâ pre-sundering era, WotA has arcane obsessed night elves quite into nature, not druidic level, (but they did beautiful cities as much as forests and their cities it states are built with a combo of nature and arcane magic. Before it got arrogant and corrupt, the night elf pre sundering was an arcane and nature utopia, forest and city in exquisite detail and harmony. Then they went increasingly obsessed into recklessness and addiction around the time of the 1st invasion)
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Return to humble living of the land is like a druid monk thing, while not everyone cares for that particularly, druidic devotion to nature implies they wonât care about cities, they would live in one if they had to, like Malfurion does in Suramar, or in Darnassus some do, or in Stormwind, but is this all night Elves.
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Cannot be all night elves because Darnassus is built, in fact I would say it is only druids. The rest it depends. But if we keep erroneously thinking of Darnassians as mainly druids we wonât be convinced
I looked for clues in the lore and realised night elves didnât rebuild for several reasons, while some of this was shame and distress at the trauma, they couldnât bear the painful reminders of what was lost (which indicated to me they loved their civilization, it was beautiful and good - this is not to be confused with loving the attitude of the culture near the end, this they came to despise, but you can love the beautiful things you do, but hate your behaviour that led to its ruin. If night elves didnât love their civilization, they would not have been so deeply affected by its destruction or miss it - but itâs clear they despised their former arrogance and over dependence on the arcane.
So why didnât they rebuild? The 2 main reasons were, 1. Too focused on the long vigil task, they didnt even focus on rebuilding their families and population with most of the men sleeping for 1000s of years at a time (which is why it is stupid male nightnelf faces look so old, they should be younger than female ones), and 2. They had banned sorcery from the Well of Eternity, unable to utlisie the spell work and arcane power needed to rebuild. And druids donât really care about that aspect.
- This changes after the long vigil ends after wc3, with no long vigil task, they go back to making civilization. The druids donât, but the night elf people do. Priests need temples, their habitat is not the forest⌠They had to make do with the forest. And this is an important distinction. While druids and hunteesses might love the forest living, priests are about temples, when they can start building again, a temple arises. Civilians need homes, and elves like them pretty, druids will sleep in caves and trees, can make thencabe pretty but they donât care about living with others, civilians do, because a society can work together and they donât have the same love for nature druids do. You can love nature and still like beautiful marble homes, have lots of forest land in and around your city as you would expect elves.
We donât see them rebuild the old cities yet in classic because both arcane usage amongst them who know how to build such things is banned and access to the Well (the power needed to rebuild) is still restricted at this point. And Iâm fact it is only now I imagine after the Legionâs end that they willfeel free to use its power.
Agreed, however I would also say they are a marvel to all night elves. All night elves loved their civilization, the Darnassians grew to hate the decadence in the old cukture, but, not the actual civilization when it was good. Iâve come to realise it itâs the arrogant attitude, entitled behaviour and wasteful recklessness the reformed Hyjal survivors come to hate. Even the high elves who are exiled 3,000 years into the Long Vigil, adopt a new high elven culture, not the obscene decadent wasteful one under the highborne order. It is clear the high elf culture is different to the highborne one. Superior in every regard because they learnt the lessons, and while they allowed themselves arcane usage unlike the group they left behind, allowing them to build new cities unlike anything of the old, but also less extravagant and grand because they had less resources, less powerful well, less knowledge (most of the knowledge been lost 3k years ago - remember the Sunstriders donât have a pristine city with intact records and research from across an empire like the hidden night elves of Suramar and Eldreâthalas had) they have to start a lot of things from scratch with head knowledge and less power, it isnât going to be as grand or amazing, but it was still new, and their culture was different from the highborne one. Better in my opinion.
Long vigil night elves did have a large population that loved nature more, however we cannot ignore that they had no choice but to rely on a magicless society, so while druids loved it, others made do and discovered it wasnât so bad, life could be lived okay with nature and without the quick conveniences of the arcane. In time they would accept this, may miss the old life, but the break would give them clarity, which Malfurion knew his people needed, he had been preaching about this in Suramar (Read WotA) where he was ostracized and a pariah for holding those views - think about a street preacher saying you are dooming the world or an environmentalist warning our reckless wasteful use of tech and energy is harming our planet.
See, night elven druid mentality are not like Amish who intentionally abandon all tech for religious reasons, they are more like the vegan or environmentalist that would counsel or promote balance and control to save our souls and our planetâŚ,they are not necessarily against science (arcane) or its tech, just mainly the wasteful, entitled decadent behaviour.
The difference is with night elves, the threat of the burning legions return if you started using magic again meant they couldnât. They are forced into a magicless (well arcane less) life. Druids were fine with this and wouldnât miss the cities and the other stuff, but former mages, priests and others would just make do, and happy to switch back once it was okay to use the spell work they needed. And note this doesnât mean theynwouldmreturn to or want corrupt ways back if they did, theynwont knowing what it costs-- they are elves not humams. Humans in weakness might repeat the mistakes, esp generations later who completely forget their history, not perfect goody goody elves, especially elves most of which still alive from that painful time, theynwont forget.
It is not using the arcane that was ever despised, it was wasteful, decadent abusive and arrogant useâŚthis is why we see shenâdralar, Farondis and nightborne all displaying humility and balance now distinguishing them from the Azshara pre-sundering highborne attitude arou d the time of the 1st invasion.
It is worth noting that high elves are very different from that type of highborne too, it is blood elves between TFT and TBC that become like those Azshara night elf highborne again - well almost like them, some of them, under Kaelâthas eventually become exactly like them again - it was the reckless behaviour the blood elves were exhibiting from outland reports that cause the night elves to warn the alliance about the history of the high elf ancestors, notice this didnât happen in TFT when Tyrande meets Kaelâthas, because he wasnât reckless then, it is not the case earlier in RoC either when high elves are the alliance mages and priests with Jainaâs refugees.
It is why the night elves send spies to Quelâthalas, to determine whether the rumours are true and see if the blood elves have returned to their ancient ancestral evil highborne ways.
We all know the TBC story shows how the blood elves are largely redeemed from that fate.
Correct. Up and I would add how we also see Suramar still, exhibit love of nature, they have kept their gardens going , extensive ones too in the palace region, zoo for animals, which while a bit twisted, is understanble if you are contained in a shield. But nature is secondary to the pre-sundering night elf civilization the nightborne are, for the Darnassian night elves, it is only primary to the druids, while all Darnassians would love nature, it is certainly secondary to Elune for the priests, sentinels, wardens Tec, not primary, and for those who pick up the mage mantle again, it would be secondary. To the druids it is primary. I canât imagine all those Darnassus citizens caring that most about nature.
I suspect we think this of all night elves because of the druid experience we see in game, but the lore seems to indicate it more nuanced than that. Most of the night elven populace is in the city of Darnassus and the townâs and villages in Teldrassil, this after 10k years of long vigil that had only one village, Nighthaven but for night elves, the rest would have been mobile homes in patrols around the land, like the one u see in Feralas, that Ancients and wisps can quickly grow and pull down when they move.
However after the long vigil, they can actually settle down, showing night elves are people too, and while you have this different druidic culture that is a good 1/3 rd of them, it is not the only thing to them.
I like this, you may feel nature is what all there is unique about the night elves, but I would disagree with everyone who thinks that is all.
The way or extent their druids do nature is certainly unique especially with its arcane astral spell set, but they are neither the only race or group that loves nature, equally unique is their priesthood, a Moon goddess and a priesthood with several martial wings like sentinels, huntresses and wardens in addition to a Moon light arcane , holy and void casting leadership, mostly female? That is also quite unique.
But their arcane wing is also unique. You didnt see it well in Eldreâthalas, but you saw it in Suramar, Suramar is night elf arcana in pristine condition, do you not also see how different it is from blood elf, human and kirinâtor high elf magecraft? It is night based, a lot more moon and star magic, arcane and astral pay attention in the nighthold, this is equally Ăšnique as their organised druidism and organised priesthood is, with the common theme of the moon and stars and the Night running through it.
Druidism is not the only unique aspects of night elves, priesthood and magecraft is also quite distinctive. People who think night elves should be without arcane or city, and only have druidism to be unique, I reckon donât realise how unique the other parts are because they only remember the druid parts, forget the priest parts and donât even associate the arcane parts with them - because all they remember is 14 years of level 1-30 And the druid qurpests of TBC and WOTLK that have lots of night elves, they ainât played WC3 anywhere as much nor read WotA , Wolfheart or focused on some of the cataclysm remake bits which are so easy to level through and which most people skip with instance spamming.
And when the night elves come to their senses, they are so white knights, all of them. Malfurion, Thalyssra, Farondis, Estulan, Altruis, Tyrande, Lothrius, Jarod, Mordant Evenshade - I intentionally picked a very prominent night elf from each group of the good guys, and across the board, all white knights, whether arcane, nature, divine, martial even demon hunter. Sure there are exception, but it is a character theme of the night elf
Did they write a comic on the emeralds dream Worgen, thensatyr wars and the shifting sands wars ? Or is that just in game and chronicles?
I know and it is unique, but I also notice it isnât the only thing distinctly unique about them. So it doesnât need to be the main feature about them. Their other aspects also quite unique, blizzard hasnât spent much time showing them, but it is there.
Nature isnât the only distinguishing factor, they do religion different and they do arcane different too, just like their nature is different to other raceâs nature life.
And their temples and cities are also different. Distinctly so even more so than their forests. Look at how distinctly fel is handled with the night elves. The demon hunters are a very different vibe to the warlock/Eredar vibe
Here is a reply I made to Janearis above that really sums it up nicely
So you see, itâs not blood elves having arcane therefore night elves having nature is what is distinctive, they both have these things, it is how they do them that is distinctive, and you will observe night elf version of nature, arcane and priesthood is very different, it also looks different, as is their character.
Itâs like saying blood elves should be the evil elves and night elves the good elves, because that is distinctive⌠blizzard doesnt appear to do things that way, blood elves and night elves both have good elements, but the type of good is different, it is more nuanced, they have different values too which helps distinctiveness, not the simple one group evil, the other good.
This is how DnD games use to do it, dark elves evil, white elves good. One elf group nature forest elves, the other are cave elf or city elf? So bland. The way they have done it in wow is a lot more nuanced, I for one love having night elves have arcane, nature and priesthood in them, and the way it is being distinctly different from how high and blood elves do it.
Now that is fine, it isnât necessary for night elves to be primarily nature to be different.
I am well aware of the lore differences, but your run of the mill wow player isnât ![:slight_smile:](https://d1bg94bbsh66ji.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=6" ":slight_smile:")
and I also agreed that they could have put more energy into pointing them out.
But if you want you non lore people to follow a story they bare take time to follow you need massive difference that is shown quickly.
if the horde and the alliance had humans i am sure they would have done something similar.
Edited: or better yet if the horde got the wild hammer clan for whatever reason (I know this wouldnât happen (or at least i hope)) I donât think the average wow player would know the difference between the two factions dwarf races either.
Minor difference do work for allied races though since most people see them more as skins/cosmetic options than races (just look at some of the thread regarding allied races).
And yes as a fellow lore person myself, I like the minor difference, as it gives a bit more connection between the races ![:wink:](https://d1bg94bbsh66ji.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/wink.png?v=6" ":wink:")
, but I can see game reasons as being the incentive here.
Also remember these variation was put in place all the way back in the burning crusade.
Agreed, because in many respects they are minor races or smaller.
Also having one thing as their main thing, like void or nature or arcane, works for an allied race too, but feels very limiting in the wow plauable unoverse for a major race.
i agree with this too. I like a theme like nature or arcane can have variations from race to race, not identical, but enough to connect them together or at least parts of them
Like purple skin, nocturnal, gooey silver eyes and lower angled ear inclines?
I know what you mean though, aka the massive tree, but I am convinced the night elves were meant to be a whole world of their own, with their night religion, their nature distinctiveness as well as their star/moon arcane visualization.
Maybe night elves have benefited from from being different too, and have a lot more to come, but blizzard I notice generally show a lot more than they say. Good points tho
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