Blizz do tend to go a bit “New Toys” crazy when they introduce a new class or race, something that even as far as Death Knights they have suffered from. People still think that Death Knights are immune to magic and Saronite is unbreakable because of that one quest chain, without realising that it was a raw chunk of Saronite, not the Tempered version of Saronite you could make armour out of, I mean if it -was- that impervious to damage, then how on earth would the Scourge have been able to hammer it into armour for their Death Knights? How on earth would Death knights use some magic as well as their considerable physical efforts? Demon Hunters were similar “I have sacrificed Everything, what have you given?” Weelll, they hadn’t really, had they? I mean even the defining feature of removing their own eyes doesn’t seem to have impeded them in a way you would imagine, with regards, well, being Blind. In fact they have -more- visual acuity than a person who has not plucked out their own eyes, which is surreal, nor is it explained why any Demon Hunter after Illidan actually did put out their own eyes, as it really doesn’t have any link to Fel, Demons or sacrifice, given that they get an upgrade. Rule of Cool over Common Sense, basically.
Void Elves have the same. We are expected to believe that they act for altruistic purposes when behaving in a way that is not altruistic in the slightest, and indeed actively sacrilegious and horrific. I mean Void Tyrannosaurs is clearly the act of ‘Good’ people, right?
They are supposedly a small secret cult, that even Umbric realises were on a pretty grim path, stating that “Now I understand why Rommath forbade this study” when he puts two and two together and realises they are using the research notes of probably the most hated Thalassian in the history of the species. I mean if anything the Alliance should want nothing to do with them, there is one species on the planet that should hate Void Elves with a passion, and that is Thalassian Elves. High Elves should hate them even more than Blood Elves, to be honest, given where their research came from, as Dark’han Drathir caused far more harm to the Thalassian Exiles, than to the Blood Elves. I mean wiping out 90% of your friends and family through treachery is bad, but causing a set of circumstances that then got 1% of the original population exiled because of what he did is arguably worse, especially when you are the 1%. High Elves should absolutely loathe Void Elves with a passion beyond anyone who is not a Blood Elf.
Of course, ‘New Toys’ so we don’t see that, and both Blood and High Elves are studying at Telogrus.
Void Elves do not, as far as we know, have the ability to create new Void Elves. No one knows how that works, not Alleria (who is not technically a Void Elf) and not Umbric (Who has no idea what exactly Dur’zaan was trying to do, at what point the intervention of Alleria prevented it, and what the thing that went wrong with Dur’zaan’s intention was). Nobody knows how to make new Void Elves, so they are still a tiny cult, less than a round percentile of the Thalassian population. They are, functionally extinct, even assuming they can -have- offspring, they are too few in number to be a species with a good enough gene pool to avoid some pretty hideous accidents.
It is strange, or perhaps lucky, that Umbric’s parents gave him that name, as Umbra equalling ‘Shadow’ is a neat twist of fate, would be awkward if his parents had called him “Sunflower” but there you go.
As I say, even Umbric realises -why- Rommath hated their line of study, and could realise that Rommath may indeed have had good reason. The fact that Umbric then says that his people always believed in the Alliance core values (before then going on to behave entirely contrary to those values) is weird, Actually, no, it is borderline insane, which is perhaps, not surprising. Also, Quest text that a National Leader gives to someone who is a ‘Noted person of importance’ is not the same as “this is what I actually think”. I mean no one sensible RP’s their character as the one and only Champion of Azeroth. If I was a Faction leader, and had someone ostensibly under my command who was powerful enough to have killed Gods, Undead Kings, a Dragon Aspect, a whole Titan Soul Planet, then Y’know, I’d tell them the things they wanted to hear too, in case they got bored of killing Kobolds and came gunning for me and my job.
Look at Garrosh during MoP in the starting blurb for a Huojin Pandaren (Just made a new alt the other day, hence it was fresh in my mind) “You will find no finer ally in battle than an Orc!” Okay Garrosh, national pride is good, fine… “Tauren can be useful, look at this one, they are a Shaman” OK Garrosh, now you’re going weird, thats not how you talk about people, plus, pretty sure Orcs have Shamans too, so wouldn’t need a Tauren to define them, but fair enough… “Even a Blood Elf can carry a sword!” Mate, Maaaate, the first time you saw these angular cruel mo-fo’s they were doing the devastation tango over your whole planet, where is the ‘even’ coming into this? They are cruel aliens who wanted to drain your planet into a husk, and you were powerless to stop, where does this weird idea that they are weak come from? I mean if they are weak, what are you? “Now I will threaten people from a continent who could give me a massive strategic advantage over my enemies, because this will clearly win them over to my side”
Yeah Garrosh. Thats totally how it works.
Thats about as serious as Umbric’s guff about always believing in the Alliance. Utter tosh. If he did, he would have left twenty years back when the rest of the Quel’dorei did. But he didn’t. We know how recently he left, because whilst the research took place at an undefined time, the actual rise of the Void Elves can only have been after Alleria returned to Azeroth, so basically pretty much now. Thats twenty years of ‘believing in the Alliance’ without actually believing in the Alliance enough to go and join it, like, y’know, 10% of the surviving species did……
I’m not even going to go into Dalaran and Eversong/Ghostlands apart from to say “Ehh, Kaldorei, you reap what you sow” but the Void Elves would be much better if they were kind of like John Constantine from Hellblazer “I study bad magics, and am probably a bad person, but I generally try to do good, I mean, yeah, really bad magics, and I probably am a really bad person, but eventually my ends may justify the means, assuming we are all alive to see it happen."
Thats Void Elves. They are not good people, far from it, but they are people who for whatever reason, thought that the ends justified the means.
And that, is incredibly Azeroth Elven, and how they always have been.
not ZERO class 
only they’re dead, but Horde wouldn’t have it any other way