Oh agreed, I don’t always think that good themes should prevail and what we consider to be wrong or evil should fail. One of my favourite fantasy settings is actually incredibly bleak, really. However, as I said:
Blizzard has a habit of telling a story and accidentally telling something else - there is an entire discussion to be had about Kul Tirans, Drust and colonialism for example. Which is what makes the story quite jarring for me.
I don’t think it helps that Blizzard are very reluctant to do much world building in-game.
I’ve always found the overall stance of Belves interesting because ultimately, I can’t help but feel that they just don’t really belong to a faction, they’re just in one for convenience/game mechanics. It feels the same way to me for velves, although perhaps leaning a little more into actually enjoying being with the Alliance because they just didn’t like the Horde enough to swing the other way. Ultimately, Belves/Velves care most for their own people, and I’d doubt they’d ever pick a faction over them as long as they have a fair choice. Even while being with the Alliance Umbric’s still talking about how the Void was meant to be used to protect his people, and that he hopes Silvermoon can be brought around as well.
God damn it just give me the High/Blood/Void Elf faction already
Whole point of
“I use void to save our people and want to unite Silvermoon”
Don’t make any sense moment void elfs joined Alliance that DON’T CARE about blood elves in the slighest and just kill them on sight just like rest of the Horde.
And velfs help them with no regret.
Guess they don’t care about their heritage do much as they claim.
Only explanation that void did something to their brains afterall
Noooo no, there’s no point where they say anything like this, but they’re in a new faction and Umbric says multiple times that they’re very much trying to prove themselves to the Alliance, so it’d be very dodgy if they just went easy on Belves in front of their new allies.
No idea why the void elves specifically are called out for this.
It’s not like the Horde (or Alliance) are above mass slaughter. I mean we literally run over countless cursed gnomes in Uldum using a ball of fire. But I guess being burned and crushed alive is better then being thrown into a magical void portal where your death isn’t even a certainty (but I guess insanity is?)
And only the void elves are selfish and hypocritical? That’s a staple of elves in Warcraft, it’s their way or the highway, and do what I say, not what I do.
Roll all high elves into void elves, tell them they sought ways to make the blood elves turn back to the Alliance “Look, we have more and better research in other ways of magic with which we can improve the position of Quel’thalas” and then be rebuffed because Quel’thalas is a Light-loving kingdom now.
I promise on my gnomish heart I would’ve made my blood elf warlock a pvp character to shoot Alliance high elves with. I promise.
This, imagine the blood elves and high elves shouting insults at eachother, kicking and stomping on eachother and going out of their way to try and curbstomp eachother during RP-PvP events while the non-Elves races are like… “uuuuuh, don’t forget to battle the others too?”
I think you’re missing my point, I was intending to convey “there’s the story that blizzard evidently want to tell, and the one that they accidentally push alongside the story they’re flowing with.”
I don’t think the rather petulant attitude of the void elves was intentional, for example. It’s a by product of the very american story angle of “poor victims of the big mean state government.”
Players are saying this. Some people want their high elf fantasy way to much
In game velfes event joke how they are way over the sunwell.
For me personally velves cut themselfs from Silvermoon and blood elves and are forging their own history. That could make most sense. They even infuse high elves of Alliance with void.
So We can say that our character is in fact true high elf
Just with tentacels
Also, the leader of the void elves (or their saviour I guess?) and the leader of the Alliance high elves are sisters and work together (as seen in the THree Sisters comic, and the Orgrimmar event!)
The alliances kills thalassian soldiers and supporters of the pro-horde government of Lorthemar. I have yet to see them randomly killing thalassian civilians, just because they are thalassian civillians. That doesnt happen. Futhermore, what makes you think the Alliances doesnt care? For all i have been shown, Anduin probably cares more about blood elves then he cares about his own subjects.
Why wouldnt the void elves help the alliance killing supporters of exacly that thalassian government they want to replace anyways?
Knowing World of Warcraft, it takes a couple of years but Blizzard will tell us, the expansion after Shadowlands, that they found a way to make more void elves.
Also, two void elves that get kids produce a normal high/blood elf. Just like two worgen.
The sabotage of the Arcane Sanctum in Eversong threatened the entire race. Standing in front of a bunch of vampires asking why they’re so mad that I blew up their bloodbank, it was only a building.
Ghostlands isnt exacly a populated area, isnt it? Its an active warzone. Whoever still lurks there has a high cance of beeing a combattant or support personel. (even if its just a blacksmith or a healer)
And Dalaran was a bloody police action with a majority-focus on arrest, aimed at members of what might be considers a political entity.
An active warzone which was barely holding the majority of the Scourge who - under Drathir - was attempting to break into Eversong and retake Silvermoon. The latter end of the quests show their plans of mass surveillance was rumbled by a Magister who can’t/doesn’t really fight and they attempt to kill him off.
Feeding civilians to sharks is the standard duty of a police officer, true.
