Do you even saw the updated Lor’danel? It’s beautiful, even if it’s pretty small. I don’t want that they will use any kind of Highborne architecture. I want everything in updated Darnassus style. And no, I don’t wanna a sanctuary from those ugly Nightbornes.
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Beauty doesn’t have to only exist in one way. I found Lor’danel quite gorgeous, and it is night elven from the long vigil era.
I also found the Temple of Elune in Darnassus, quite gorgeous, as well as Surmar, also The Cathedral of eternal night, the Temple of Elune in Val’sharah and Azsuna, the crumbled palace in ints non-ruined form, the Warbringer version of Zin’Azshari - and they are EQUALLY night elven from the pre-sundering era.
These are the two grade of night elven architecture, and i want both. I don’t see why night elves get to be the only race that have half their architecture and then have to lose the likes of Suramar, Zin’Azshari, the Temple of Elune, the Cathedral of Eternal Night, eldre’thalas type architecture.
Both have a place. one is for smaller more forested communities and night elves, the other is for larger, more urban non-druidic night elves.
Seeing that the night elves are made up of more than the forest elf, and also the dark elf type - I would like to see both. Thank you very much. Both in the main night elf group.
P.s. Do you think tyrande considers her city highborne architecture? or her Goddess’ temples Highborne architecture? don’t let others label things for you. So far the only highborne cities we know of are Eldre’thalas and Nar’thalas. The others are all night elven, belonging to all the castes. Suramar, Zin’Azshari are not exclusively highborne, never were. They were built by arcane and nature magic combined together working at their best.
And highborne IS Night elven
But even most of Darnassus has the “long vigil” architecture. Everything except the Temple is built in living wood.
The Nightelves severed their ties to the Kaldorei Empire that built cities like Suramar or Zin’Azshari, so why should they keep the Architecture of a past they left behind?
I think the Alliance Nightelves’ architecure (and mentality, and culture) and style just evolved, and you seem to dislike the result and cling to the past.
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The sentinel HQ is marble and there are some marble gazebos too…Which is period appropriate. When Darnassus is built they have just come out of the long vigil, the arcane has not fully returned, so you have the marble and wood mixture…, when you return to Suramar and Azsuna, you see the full extent of the marble, and in val’sharah the wood.
It makes sense to expect and feel a night elf city would be full of gorgeous marble kaldorei buildings with the highborne and arcane now back, which wasn’t the case when Darnassus was built.
The forest druidic night elves don’t do towns or cities, they are more solitary, so you have a cottage here, 1-3 houses there like you see in val’sharah or Ashenvale. At most 1 town for trading like we had shal’anir where most druids would have been situated at the world tree, or Astraanar/Dreamgrove for trade, but those wouI’d be like tops 1.
It’s the other night elf communities, civilians, mages priests that would have lots of towns and cities. And this is fine cos they would have the beautiful night elven marble stuff whole the forest gets the beautiful wooden stuff.
I’ve feel you have mis interpreted the night elves there.
Firstly Your architecture is your architecture, it doesn’t matter if your civilization is in full swing or not
You can choose to return to your architecture like the night elves do in Darnassus , and you can have several styles too. The night elves have returned to their architecture… and it’s nice, Darnassus, proves it as do the broken isles. They use old stuff and new stuff like the Wardens vault. Others like Moonguard Stronghold, Suramar City, Tel’anor and Eldre’thalas or Nar’thalas would definitely be used .
Secondly: Night elves didn’t sever ties to their pre sundering civilization architecture great works or wise and good living
They turned from decadence, recklessness and were humbled this is not a rejection of all the good work they built and did…, that was destroyed by the Legion… and they hate the Legion for it. The empire was destroyed as was tge civilization, and never forget the empire was not bad until addiction, recklessness and arrogance of the highborne closest to Azshara led things to the decadent state. Night elves don’t curse anything to do with their pre sundering civilization, nor their architecture…,what they curse is the abuse of arcane magic, their precious magic that the arrogant highborne abused. It is this attire they sever themselves from.
With the civilization destroyed, the night elves start a new mandate of the ling vigil. This is a mission, not life as normal, they aren’t intentionally or willingly avoiding civilization, it is destroyed and they cant use their magical power to rebuild it because a more pressingthreat of preventing the legions return is at foot.this state is maintained for 10,000 years, hence why only a small village, Nighthaven is built during that time
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If they didn’t like Suramar, do you think Maiev, Illidan or Tyrande would have been driven to such wrath against the legion or the group would have been willing to hunt down every demon for 10,000 years and deny themselves rebuilding civilization, family or magic just to absolutely prevent that evil from returning. Do you think Malfurion woukd have had his own kin expelled for using arcane magic that could have brought the legion back or maintain such a vvigil and for so long???
You are wrong if you think the kaldorei have turned their backs on their civilization, it was destroyed from under them, and the long vigil was a period for the specific purpose of preventing the legion returning, prevents them from rebuilding because the task is of greatest importance to these righteous type elves.
This is why arcane magic is banned… not because they turn their back on it, they believe using their well can and will bring the Legion back, this era is about preventing that and the background of it is covered in 3 novels.
When the period ends in wc3, why does it surprise you they go back to civilization, families, arcane magic returns too…are not Darnassus, the temple of the moon and sentinel HQ evidence of the architecture returning?
Do you honestly think night elf fans like me who adore both their marble and wooden architecture, and were gobsmacked by Suramar and Val’sharah are going to like a night elf city for the alliance night elves to be any less incredible than the stuff we have seen from Warbringers Zin’azshari to Suramar, to Eldre’thalas, Nar’thalas and Darnassus.
We’d be furious. We loved the new night elf stuff both in Suramar and in Val’sharah. Suramar is what we want a night elf city to be like, Tel’anor a normal town, Nar’thalas a small city, Shal’anir a forest druidic town and the Dreamgrove forest dwellings.
This is what we like
Thirdly What sense does it make to ditch the marble architecture so beautiful in Darnassus, Suramar and Zin’azshari? Only to stick to the long vigil style?
Surely it makes better sense to have both, but have the wooden architecture and long vigil style in areas where druids dominate like Val’sharah and Ashenvale forests, and have the marble architecture in areas where priests and mages dominate, like Azsuna, Suramar and Darkshore.
No harm in a bit of mixture in some places where appropriate. if a priest community is in a forest, makes sense to have a marble temple of Elune, like in Val’sharah. In a place where there is a druid and mage community like in Feralas, makes sense to have marble in some with the mage community, and wooden where the druids are.
If it’s a mobile command centre, like Feathermoon stronghold, it has its types.
Blizzard has set the night elf architecture already, and I’m fine with all of it. No more of this nonsense of it should only be wood, when it’s got great marble and wood stuff that is befitting the various night elven groups.
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Did you think Suramar was not night elven just because their night elves go by a slightly different name of Nightborne or a slightly different look… it’s night elven through and through, and if you think that should only be restricted to the horde night elves, you will get more angry alliance kaldorei fans who loved it just as much for being night elven too. The alliance kaldorei are not in long vigil mode any more, they have got civilians and highborne, families and communities returning. They still have druids and druici communities carrying out the work they started in the long vigil, these dont do cities or towns, therefore you will see them in forests with simpler more appropriate wood elegantly crafted stuff.
It’s like saying because the void elves or high elves are no longer in Quel’thalas they should have the night elf style high elf farstrider Hunter lodges you have in Loch Modan and Hinterlands for their architecturem despute Allerian Stronghold in Terokkar forest and Dragonblight alliance town shows you them building Silvermoon type buildings, just blue and gold instead of red and gold.
I’ll be nourished by their (your, it’s really mostly you) tears 
Somehow I doubt that very much,
forum communities and media communities have been known to miss the heart of the wider populace - because those who engage with them are often steered by the things their much smaller community put out.
this leads to devs who just go on the responses of people on the forums sometimes missing what most of the playing population who don’t spend any time on game media outlets actually want.
Sometimes the insistent seemingly unpopular annoying one poster actually captures what a lot think, and somtimes the reason he doesn’t seem so popular on the forum is when he posts, 4-7 regulars jump on him and cry him down, making the forum refulars dismiss what he says, but doesn’t change the fact that what he says is quite valid and would be quite popular.
Night elf architecture is immensely loved by fans - Darnassus, Suramar, CoEN etc was proof, they were incredibly well loved and consider very beautiful by the vast majortiy of players.
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Do you honestly think that night elf and alliance fans would not hugely love any new city they get to be of that quality of standard. Why would blizzard give them any less? Just to spite Kalibas?
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Do you honestly think that if blizzard gives them village/rural architecture for city architecture that they would happy about that when examples like Suramar, Zin’Azshari, CoEN and Temple of Elune, are out there - or even new small night elf towns and small cities like Tel’anor or Nar’thalas are there.
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Do you honestly expect blizzard to give sub-standard stuff to night elves on the alliance, but leave night elves on the horde with the best versions of their race?
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Do you not think it is far more likely blizzard will continue in the exact vein we have already seen. With beautiful elegant wooden stuff for forest night elf zones, and beautiful marble stuff for night elf cities.
- THey have already given the night elf architectural style.
- They already have beautiful marble night elf cities and beautiful forest villages and homes.
You have already seen night elf architecture when you saw Suramar, Darnassus, Zin’Azshari, Eldre’thalas, Nar’thalas, Tel’anor, Shal’anir, Dreamgrove - both wooden and marble - you already have the standard set for cities and the standard set for towns and also for forest villages
Night elf lore has beauitful stuff - you see it all over the broken isles and north & western kalimdor - every time you follow the story of the night elves/nightborne you are seeing it.
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I don’t see why blizzard would downgrade stuff for night elves, its in their interest to get things even nicer and better. And that stuff is race appropriate
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The buildings in darkshore are zone appropriate which is why they are like that, and they are nice, however that is not what you use in a city. The reason Bashal’aran has wooden buildings instead of marble ones like it use to, is because it is a war base atm, quickly constructed to serve as a military base of operations.
Night elves don’t do marble mobile bases, they do these great trees they grow - it makes them incredibly good at mobile combat as solid bases can be set up in short periods of time.
Whenthe war is over, and the people settle, those rees would have moved on, and if more people come in you would have marble buildings instead.
We need trees, a moonwell, and a few huts to start. Maybe a few orc heads for Tyrande to throw in . Oh and nightsabers.
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Not saying there’s anything wrong with wanting the ancients to be a core part of night elf civilisation (since they are), there is something wrong with saying all the night elves knew, did, or needed during the Long Vigil was duty.
My comment was pointed at the fact that according to Tyllendel the night elves did and knew nothing else but duty, outright ignoring that villages, towns and cities sprang up during that time and that the night elves still needed farmers, blacksmiths, forges, glaive works, tailors, leatherworkers etc.
Also, let’s not talk about the fact you’re basicly saying the night elven architecture is made up of the ancients, because you can’t live in a tree that also double functions as your people’s war and siege machinery.
Funny, htt p://classic.battle.net/war3/human/buildings.shtml is the architecture that most of us associate with the alliance races (humans, dwarves and gnomes) yet I do not see the Kul Tirans, Gilneans, Stormwindians, Bronzebeards and gnomes share this architecture ingame at all.
So why are the gnomes, humans, dwarves, worgen and Kul Tirans allowed to get unique, new architecture and the night elves aren’t?
Or what about orcs? Going from mudhuts to actual fortresses, but the night elves aren’t allowed because ???
Indeed. Good thing blizzard has already shown us the breadth of night elven architecture.
They have Ancients, tree homes and barrow den caves.
They also have massive temples, exquisite cities and architecture. It’s all there.
Night Elf empire and pre-sundering era, Long Vigil era, and the current post-vigil era are all night elven.
They have architecture for druids, priests and civilians/mages.
Huge urban cities, small cities, towns and villages.
I don’t think he is, the night elves are quite special, the long vigil a special era. The lore only records Nighthaven as the only permanent vilkage/town. Mentioning this point specifically.
I was rather amazed at them for being so fervent and steadfast, it was another level of operation, as if they had transcended things like a need for society and monetary value etc.
Ofc my opinion of them was inflated… but to do what they did so perfectly and flawlessly, very elven.
With it over, I assume, for the first time in 10k years they transition back to their type of life in the pre sundering era, which was good when arcane, nature and Elune all worked in tandem.
I assume they will not repeat the error of the arcane consuming everything
Btw, did anyone notice how the larger Darkshore ruins have been updated with the broken isle architecture?
This merely shows that broken isle night elf architecture from Suramar to Val’sharah, Azsuna to Stormheim isn’t some different race or anything like what people think. It’s all night elf, just done with better art and tools.
Just like we saw the Val’sharah building designs in the updated Lor’danel is not some indication that Val’sharah druids are some different race nor that they have somehow come to Darkshore and rebuilt for The Night Elves of the Darnassus nation.
It’s all night elf. All of it, Suramar City, Cathedral of Eternal Night, Shaladrassil, just as Eldre’thalas, Temple of Elune and Teldrassil from classic were all night elf.
Yes it is, but not the Part of Nightelf that joined the Alliance. But kling to your wishes.
Nightelves that joined the Alliance have the mostly the druidic and priest part with the remaining Highborne from Diremaul sprinkled in.
Nightelves that were banished because they used arcane became Highelves, Bloodelves and Voidelves.
Nightelves that remained on the broken isles lived seperated from their kin in Kalimdor and have their own society (but still look the same) like the Moonguard.
Nightelves in Suramar raised a giant shield and became Nightborne over the millenia.
Saying they all are Nightelves is like saying all Trolls and their distinct culture are Zandalari, or all Humans are Vrykul…
They all descend from Nightelves, but they evolved, just like their cultures (including the Alliance Nightelves) did.
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U can’t do anything against his opinion. It doesn’t even matter what you write…
I know, but i can try to prevent that his opinion is accepted as fact 
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that doesn’t matter. When blizzard will do a night elf city, they’re not going to go “oh, but that’s not the alilance group”
They’re going to go… lets make this amazing, and the best the night elves have to offer. If it’s a city, it’s going to be like Suramar… if it’s village/small forest town, it’s going to be like what you see in Val’sharah. Wardens and Demon Hunters have their unique shaped building.
For starters, druids don’t really do cities - no point in having allowance for druids, when they’re not going to be there. A druid will take one look at stone and say… hey this pales in comparison to the beautiful complexity of nature.
Pirests will have a temple - if it’s amongst city folk, and highborne it will be in the citiy, if its amongst the forest folk it will be in the forest. Knowing the priests, they’d definitely have one or 2 in the capital and in each community zone.
Partly correct… although i’m not sure what you’re trying to say. The societies on the broken isles aren’t anything new to what we know about the night elves. The druids live like druids, teh nightborne/moonguard/highborne - live as they did representing the various stages of the pre-sundering civilization. The wardens live as they do we saw outlined in Wc3.
Broken isle just visualises what any night elf fan has read and knows already exists. It really doesn’t give a new facet of night elves, and it doesn’t need to, becuase the game largely showed the druid side for so long, the other parts seem like they’re new even though they aren’t.
That makes no sense. I am saying night elves are night evles… Because they are.
What you are trying to say is like Broken Isles night elves are some different specisies of night elves. It’s like saying Kul’tiran humans are a different species to stormwind humans who are different to Alteran or Artathi humans - they aren’t they have different communities. But they are all human.
And i’m not saying Thalassian elf stuff is night elf stuff - i’m clearly speaking to the night elf things you see in the broken isle and kalimdor - those are night elf.
Yes they did, but what you are not getting is that the nightborne arne’t some new culture, nor some new people, like the Thalassian elves became. These are night elves in a night elf city that have become a different form of night elf, they are not.
Again, confusing nightborne with blood elves. Nightborne ARE not descendants, they are original night elves. The vast majority of them are over 10,000 years old and were born night elven.
High elves, blood elves and void elves are descendant.
I’m saying the architecture and culture you see there is all night elven. I’m not saying that all Trolls and their distinct culture are Zandalari - they aren’t. The troll tribes went different paths and created their own troll empries/nations. That’s why it is called the Gurubashi Empire, or the Amani Empire or the Drakkari Empire.
The culture of the nightborne, the val’sharah druids, the farondis, the Moonguard, - it’s all Kaldorei. Even the culture of the demon hunters while different from the major kaldorei culture of the pre-sundering era and post sudering era, is also a kaldorei culture as it was 100% kaldorei for 10,000 years, only accepting other races to the Illidari faction in WC3 TFT
REally… opinion vs fact?
Is that what you’re worried about?
Do you have so little faith in the intelligence of your fellow readers to know the difference?
They’ve all played Legion, they’ve seen the story (I hope) Saw Suramar presented as the Jewel of the NIGHT ELF empire (not nightborne), saw the night elves become nightborne, saw the same quests that tell you they preserved their culture (i.e. kaldorei culture for 10,000 years - there was no “distinct” nightborne culture around. In fact what you call nightborne culture is kaldorei pre-sundering culture.
none of this is opinion.
however I have given my opinion in some places above. EVeryone interpretes information, you need to, that’s how you process it and understand it. while you can sometimes interprete information in several ways, know that not every way is correct, and if you are given pieces of information on something you cann use that to determine wehtehr your interpretation is correct or not.
I t is worth having the correct understanding so you know what is actually going on. In this case, it has no bearing on your life, so no one ultimtely cares…
If tomorrow blizzard come up with another night elf city, with another group of night elves that are a variation of the main one - i will be calling it a night elf city - because tha’ts what ti is, and you will be calling it the name of the night elf race in there. We would both be correct, and I would acknowledge your assessment isn’t wrong, but you would not see that mine isn’t either and we will go no where.
And If i suggested that a more accurate way to look at it, is to interprete the new night elf group as a sub-race of night elf, like a new form of night elf (still within the night elf bracket but no longer the original kaldorei), you would probably disagree and insist it is a new elf altogether- which is both correct and wrong. It is a new elf, however by isnsiting this as if to counter my point, you make your statement wrong because you refuse to ackonwledge it is part of the night elf bracket., and so meaning it is a completely new category unrelated to night elf because you would point out… the night elf culture is forest and wood and these aren’t.
Then i would remind you that only some of the night elf culture is forest and wood based, and point out the parts that aren’t both in the present and the past, and tell you because the pre-sundering night elf civilziation is in the past, doesn’t make it any less night elven at any point in time. Furthermore, the fact that their are still known night elf groups according to that other civilziation which you met first should automatically rule out your conclusion.
But you won’t accpet it because you dn’t like me saying things as if they are fact, and you’re being stubborn and just won’t do it or admit.
Maybe, but i don’t think so. Blizzard usually tries to give each playable race a unique and unmistakable look.
You may dislike it, but every single Town the playable Nightelves have is either a ruin or made in living wood.
The Suramar Style with light purple, arcane lights and high buildings is now reserved for Nightborne stuff.
Just like they gave the Bloodelves and Highelves (not even playable), or even Zandalari and the remade Troll Ruins in Arathi a distinct difference in Style or at least in the colorscheme and splendor, and their seperation (at least for the elves) is way closer to our time.
But to be honest, i don’t think nightelves will get a city soon. Just like the Forsaken they propably will stay homeless for a few Addons.
What i don’t get with you Aethils is why you think blizzard would use night elven village /country forest architecture for a city when they already have incredible architecture designed for the race.
Do you honestly think Suramar is exclsuviely desinged to portray nightborne or even blood elf civilization? When you know the lore? Its night elf civilization.
And if they were ever to do a second city, why would it be anything less stunning or amazing than utilising the existing night elf city architecture we have seen?
I don’t get why you think they would and why you think people would be happy with anything less than the best stuff for their race, the core race at that.
[Not saying IF they do a new city it would be identical, but it would be city and it wouuld be amazing - cos that’s what they do - and I don’t think they’re going to do a new city for night elves, they already did Suramar - they’d either give it to them or make them share it with their kin - they know druids don’t do cities, so if you think the alliance night elves are just a bunch of forest elf druid types, don’t expect a city from that side, they do barrow dens and live spread out in nature. Priests do temples and so if they ignore priests and ignore civilians and the highborne groups with them, then sure, it would be forest architecture and it won’t be a city.]
That’s my opinion.
According to who? Decree by Aethil? It’s like saying Silvermoon is now reserved only for the blood elves and high elves or void elves have no right to that architecture - it’s insanity. Suramar is in its original beauty, unchanged since before the bubble 10,000 years ago, the night elves who remained did not change anything, they didn’t need to anyway. It’s a night elf city, the city both nightborne and majority of alliance night elves come from. With Silvermoon, we have indication of colour change to Thalassian architecture, not design change, switching high elf blue to red. Not so for Zin’Azshari or Suramar or any of the other. Purple, arcane lights, blues and variations of that have been a night elf thing from the start. See their pruple skin? their purple banners? their purple fascination? See their arcane silver glowing eyes.
i mean its like people forget night elves are purple not GREEN, born from the arcane - it’s like they can’t factor into account night elf lore and base their entire interpretation on the forest experience they get in classic/tbc/wotlk showing the druid side. ignore the rest of the lore, and when they actually show you the arcane side first in Eldre’thalas, then in Azsuna and Suramar, then Zin’Azshari, despite having written about it. It is entirely ignored and declared as not night elven… I’m like wtf… it’s showing and telling you this is night elven - but no you won’t accept it becasue the alliance group has druids and have been in forests… there forests and nature is all they know and there is to them.
You claim they left the arcane and cities and all that stuff behind them 10,000 years ago. They also left civilization, were in isolation, with no temples, no nation nothing for 10,000 years… why are you not arguing that Temples of Elune aren’t night elven, and that Darnassus isn’t a city, and that night elves are still in isolation. Because like cities, and arcane magic - all that stuff was left behind 10,000 years ago… but from the start of wow, the lore that has been shown is that isolation has come out of, civilization has started again, cities have started being built again, arcane magic has come back, - and not once ever, whether in would or in marble, whether Darnassus, or village hut or Suramar or the ruins have you ever not seen night elf stuff portrayed as elegant and beautiful.
but somehow, if it’s suramar it is not night elven. So night elves are allowed cities, just not very beautiful ones, they are alloed magic, just not very good magic. Despite the lore showing and tellling you everythhing to do with the highborne, the nightborne, Azshara, the presundering empire and civilization, the Long vigil, the Well of Eternity, the world tree, the height of arcane magic, the height of druidic magic, Demon hunters and the height of fel mastery , Wardens, ELune, Temples of Elune, Barrow dens, emerald dream crafted forests, stunning breathtaking night elven cities - that’s all night elven.
but you say no… because the night elves in Suramar are now nightborne despite still being night elves (nocturnal and kaldorei culture based - it’s not even a different society divorced of the night elves… they didn’t give a new elven society with them (like we have with the high elves) they gave THE kaldorei pre-sundering society, the culture of the kaldorei highborne in its original form.
Yet somehow this is not night elven. well I am pretty sure every single NPC night elf druid, mage, priest - highborne, civilian, military - would disagree emphatically.
Aethil, I agree 100% here. Several reasons. They aren’t going to lay that sort of resources there… unless they decide to develop the night elven story further - the Legion and Queen Azshara are the biggest antagonists from the Night Elves - the story of the night elves is created with the Legion as their main nemesis, and the empress queen who betrayed them.
Once those plots are tied up, and they show Naz’jatar, or an old night elven civilization like in the Broken Isles - there is no incentive to return to them at all. If they were going to show night elf stuff and design it, it would be in a WotA style game/expansion which was Legion or the one to deal with Azshara. which is 8.2
They already did the night elf pre-sundering civilizaiton, they showed as pristine night elven city - whether the night elves there are nightborne - that’s what it is. They’ve already done it.
They took 14 years to get back to the night elves after having lots of lore and presentation for them in WC3, the War of the Ancients Trilogy and the WoW classic racial zones - in these they showed the Order of elune (WC3) and the Long vigil era (wc3), described the Pre-sundering era, the arcane origin and magical base of the night elves as well as the origin of their great enemy and tragic apocalypse which frames the events of the RTS game - here you read the mage, demon hunter and civilization side (WotA trilogy and later shown in Legion), then the druid side of the race and post vigil culture that emerges with changes you see the night elves progress from coming out of civilziation and a 10k year long vigil state, to a lot of progressive changes (WoW)
It’s all been done.
I don’t see them doing anything more or extravagant.
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Great night elven city - Check ! [Suramar]
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Great night elven forest - Check [ Val’sharah]
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Great night elven Temple - check [CoEN, Temple of Elune]
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Great night elven Tree - signifying forest elf aspect - Check [Teldrassil, Shaladrassil, Nordrassil]
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Great nigiht elven Well of power - signifying dark elf arcane asepct - check [Well of Eternity 1, Well of Eternity 2, Moonwells, Nightwell]
They’ve done 4 cities in game for night elves - Darnassus, Suramar, Eldre’thalas, Vash’jir - and warbringers cinematic did Zin’Azshari … we won’t get more.
While you have a point here… remember there is a different tact for night elves. EVery night elven city is different.
Look at:
Suramar
Eldre’thalas.
Darnassus
Vashj’ir
Zin’Azshari
everysingel one is different - yet they’re all night elven. The night elves have far less racial variation than the trolls do, therefore every troll city is marked by a different troll race. Until the nightborne we didn’t really have a night elf sub-race - i would argue the high elves were the sub-race except they made them pretty much their own race - elven, but so far apart from the night as day is to night. Yet still related because it is the same race.
Now the naga as race of their own, based from the night elves have developed zsomething that is not night elven, it isn’t kaldorei - it may have kaldorei overtones, but it isn’t. Not so Suramar, Zin’Azshari, Eldre’thalas, Darnassus, Vashj’ir they are 100% night elven whether half night elves, variant night elves, full night elves, highborne night elves, demon night elves, forest night elves - live in them.
I don’t argue that Nightelven stuff can’t be beautiful. I just say that they will propably not use the Suramar-aesthetic.
They propably would use versions of stuff they used in Azsuna and the darkshore Warfront remodel.
White marble? yes. splandor and elegance? why not. light purple arcane buildings? propably not.
But according to what we have seen, most modern nightelves use the Buildings from living wood and shaped inside trees, the only buildings that are not like this are temples.
If Darnassus is an example for a Nightelf city, then you will have a nice giant marble temple with wooden stuff around it.
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Purple is relative when it comes to the Kaldorei.
If we actually look at Zin-Azshari from the Warbringer, we will see more pale buildings with light blue roof-tops.
Now, could this work? Possibly, albeit - could be slightly too “High Elven” in appearance.
Basically, if you wanted to make a Zin-Azshari transmog for a Night Elf Mage, you’d probably look for something like what I’ve got on this character.
Remember that the arcane has been depicted between purple, silver and blue too.
Though there sin’t any official lore on the colour variance, just that amongst humans and high elves arcane has shown up as blue.
amongst night elves it has shown up as purple and silver.
And this is not even taking into account mage class spell effects colours. But then who’s to say it is limited to one colour or one spectrum? Just like who’s to say all of Zin’Azshari had blue tops, maybe they changed to purple at night or had different coloured sections in the city like Suramar or Stormwind.