It is unclear, this is true…
But what remains fact is that the physical change was caused by Nether-Prince Durzaan and we’ve seen nothing to indicate even the knowledge of how to do this transformation exists anymore.
And the absence of proof is not proof. I’m only going by what we’ve seen so far.
To make your scenario make sense, we’d need:
- Established lore explaining why the Void Elves chose to change every recruit. When we know an elf can learn the powers without changing.
- Established lore explaining how they gained this knowledge with Durzaan dead.
- Established lore explaining why every recruit accepts this change.
- Established lore explaining why Alleria does not undergo the change.
And even if they did all that, it would still grind me the wrong way that Alleria is just so darn special, when there’s no reason she should be.
She’s the same race, same physiology, same powers etc.
She’s not a special exception to the rule when we’ve seen nothing indicating elves change drastically physically upon studying the Void.
The only alternative I can accept, is that if they do for example something like this:
- Locus-Walker reveals that he knows how to turn ordinary elves into Void Elves.
- He also reveals that this change is what protects them from insanity due to the corruption. To wield the Void, you must “become” a part of it. Blablabla… Similar to how he’s not an ordinary Ethereal himself, he’s a voidy one.
- He tells Alleria that she must undergo the change or lose herself to madness. She’s only endured it for this long because she’s exceptionally strong-willed, but no one can keep it at bay forever.
- Alleria undergoes the change, along with every new recruit. Who must undergo the change before they are even allowed to learn anything.
Blizzard keeps doing this same mistake over and over…
They make the leader characters too different. Making people wonder why that character looks like this or that, and why their character can’t look like that as well.
They did the exact same mistake with Nathanos.
The Forsaken could have had a unique leader they could see themselves in, but nope… Rule of Cool, he’s different because reasons…
And people are still asking for “Nathanos-style” forsaken.
They could have given him a unique model, but that remained loyal to how the Forsaken themselves look.
Like they did with Saurfang.