You’re jumping the gun a bit, tbh. I believe there’s also the Highborne hairstyle, for example.
I prefer the idea that golden eyes mean a great magical potential, rather than just druidic.
It just works better, imo. Especially when you have Malfurion, who’s eyes changed again. To emerald this time.
It’s just the typical kind of things villains and arrogant elves would say. None of the above are ever directed to the night elf player themselves. They’re general, biased, statements.
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You can easily determine who you want your character to be. A young Highborne who moved from Dire maul to Teldrassil with her family, and started learning magic in Teldrassil
Or, a new Night elf learning the mage class. Either way, the choice is yours. And either way, it makes sense lorewise.
Shaman was also added to Dwarves in Cataclysm due to the Wildhammer, and in Shadowlands the Dwarves got Wildhammer tattoos indicating you can now play as one, since you have the choice to choose Exile’s reach anyway. So it doesn’t matter where your character starts.
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During the Burning of Teldrassil, it was Highborne mages that teleported the citizens out. They also joined the battle in Darkshore.
It just a title, mark of status, nothing more.
Also true.
This is where it threw me off. This isn’t Harry Potter where the high classed people have their own so-called blood. This is just a Title.
Maybe. But on the other hand the Highborne have been described as this group of more intelligent, more powerful, faster etc. people AND they were known for selective breeding so they could get strong magical bloodlines (a real thing in wow) so there is something to be said for the idea of worth being judged by blood (especially back then).
This.
And it is still practised in the Shalassian community.
I mean, the division of the Highborne and the Lowborne.
Quel’dorei? You are peasants playing at nobility, all too willing to mingle with lesser races that dilute your bloodline. You are unworthy of the name high elves.
Even the Shen’dralar had pureblood mages who were just apprentices, like the PC is.
She is making sterotypes based on Vereesa Windrunner, and the Windrunner sisters. They are the only known High elves to marry a human. which is what she means when she says delute the blood line, as the children are not 100% elf.
But as i said, this is based on 3 sisters (only one of them being High elf)
She cant sterotype a whole race based on 3 people from the same family.
this. So even the Night elf community now has “Full blooded Highborne from Dire maul”
Another traitor I will gladly kill in due time. All alliance elves will be killed. No mercy for any of them. For the Horde! Down with the alliance elves! Lok’tar!
Elf trying to sound like an Orc, That is truelly sad…I will pray for you. Bal’adash
Don’t say Bal’adash. Only true children of Quel’thalas are allowed to say that. You are a traitor who chose their human friends over their real people in Quel’thalas. The Horde is the true way.
Dont forget History. Humans helped protect Quel’thelas 3 times in lore, otherwise there would be no such thing as Quel’thelas.
Our home now is Dalaran. Come on by and visit us, our sharks need their morning breakfast 
When Elisande called the Quel’dorei “peasants playing at nobility” , she was pointing the fact that the high elves are not true “Highborne” , but formed from the lower groups of former Thalassian society. As common folk, scholars, soldiers and spiritual leaders, they lack the nobility that remained within Quel’thalas.
A Highborne living under the rules of the Lowborn is no longer a Highborne.
there called High elves because they are decedants of the Highborne that was exiled by Malfurion many years ago. Their profession has nothing to do with it. It is the name of their race. Many of them changed that name to blood elves (the horde) but some kept the name.
Funny, considering Tyrande was from Suramar and you yourself called her a Highborne
Untrue. The Highborne are still called the Highborne. I believe that was one of their conditions for rejoining the night elves.
I’m unsure if you agree she is a Highborne, but I’ll reply to this because you mentioned it.
Tyrande isn’t Highborne. Suramar was a city with both Highborne and lowborne elves. (the Nightborne aren’t all nobility themselves either.)
Compared to the Nightelves they are.
Are they? Like I said, the people of Suramar were both Highborne and lowborne before the Sundering. So it stands to reason that those in the “bubble” were also a mix.
I’d argue that night elves and nightborne both have highborne and lowborne, just that one rules in one society and the other way around for Suramar.
In the court of stars Spellblade Auriel refers to the ones who have refused to follow the commands of the Elisande as the lowborn filths.
Nightborne npcs have quotes such as Lowborn scum, filth like you should obey their betters and etc.
So in Shalassian community there is a division of the Lowborn and the Highborne.
I cannot speak for the Kaldorei resistance as they have remade the rules of the empire.
Do you people think that every single Highborne was on Legion side during the war, or was hiding in Feralas/Suramar?
When Arcane users where banished from Night Elves lands after the war, do you people think that every single Highborne decided to flee into Eastern Kingdoms?
What I want to say, is that even before Highbornes from Feralas have returned to home in Cata, there were plenty of Highbornes already. Highbornes that decided to live according to Malfurion and Tyrande rules. Rules that cancels any caste division.
But, there still is a division on nobility. In Cata rogue questline there was a party for noble Night Elves leaders of the Darnassus. Only difference is that any Night Elf can be noble now, and you don’t have to be Highborne mage for that.