I know this has been a thing for a while but I swear I’ve seen a lot more of it recently. Obviously ren’dorei are permitted in Stormwind and I assume that quel’dorei similarly can enter the city without an issue, but the sin’dorei are exclusively a Horde-alligned people aren’t they?
Unless I’m missing something (which I very well could be) this all strikes me as a bit strange, like that time I saw a draenei who was actually a troll in disguise with permission given to enter the city from Anduin himself, but maybe not quite so bad.
The most common reason usually boils down to:
’ Valeera Sanguinar’
That’s right, one blood elf who the king befriended is the reason that all these sin’dorei suddenly appear in Stormwind.
Other reasons include:
“I don’t like the Horde.”
“I’m neutral.”
“I have signed permission from the king himself.”
Or the most common one:
"/w Hey, want to go somewhere private?
Realistically, there isn’t any reason for it. The void elves are already generally disliked enough in the city, and having void and blood elves in the same city is basically asking for a problem.
Let alone the fact that they blood elves are Horde and shouldn’t be there.
Think they’re just a bundle of uninspired weirdos tbqh
I think they could do cool spy RP instead of hanging as Horde members chilling in Stormwind (or vice versa) but the simple truth is that they don’t want to do that.
What they want is to have something wacky on their profile that gives them attention.
If I were to out of the box wager it, these are the people who saw an opportunity in the new customizations, moving a longtime, developed belf character from horde to alliance due to how things have gone with the horde being everyone’s worst friend at best of late. They don’t want to start a new character after all this time and certainly not play a smelly void elf.
Being a void elf, I made it a point to antagonize blood elves in sw IC. Not only because it made perfect sense from a void elf and stormwind citizen perspective, but also because the OOC malding I’d receive in /w was hilarious.
Because, for all people belabour the decrease in it recently, Open World RP has really never actually been that good in cities. This is just more of the same gumpf, and you can’t convince me otherwise.
… You do realize that an entire race isn’t a monolithic hive-mind, yes? Like, look at Pands. All the Pands everywhere.
… And then there’s all that Belf Drama Baggage with the horde story that I think hasn’t been resolved yet? There’s reasons aplenty to ditch the Horde and join the constantly-winning-side of the wars.
On a side note, I would love to see Taurens and Goblins be able to walk around in Stormwind. Taurens because they’ll bring the Peace Pipe, and Goblins because they’re almost universally Neutral, but are still race-locked to Horde. The Vulpera’s can stay Horde though, I don’t think they’ve quite forgiven the Alliance for The Incident.
Yes, and while High and Blood elves are the same race, they are two politically opposed factions with one being exclusively allied to the Horde and the other to the Alliance.
Just as there are no Horde High elves, there are no Alliance Blood elves, because “Blood elf” is a political affiliation that is an active enemy of the Alliance.
Edit: I should say that not every High elf is a member of the Alliance, but all Blood elves are Horde. Silver Covenant is the exclusively Alliance faction. Narme went through the effort of finding every single named High elf NPC in the game and check their affiliation, and the split was about 50/50, +/- one or two in favour of the Alliance.
Sure. But as noted above, this would make said blood elf a high elf.
That’s the only distinction between the two. If you say “I am a blood elf”, you are declaring yourself to be an enemy of the Alliance.
That’d be extremely soulless, as demonstrated by Baine crazily hanging out in the throne room for nearly a year.
Technically, they took up the name Blood Elf when Give-Or-Take 90% of their people got slaughtered, and they emerged from that conflict forever marked. Their new racial name has almost nothing to do with politics, nor political-affiliations. And the reason why they went Horde was because some Lordaeron Noble was rude to an elf right after 90% of their entire population died. (Which is a tradition that continues to this day! The rude bit, not the genocide.)
This took place… 20 years ago? In-lore? Happened in Warcraft 3, then 10 years between WC3 and WoW, plus ambiguity because Blizzard lore writing. In that time, we’ve had a giant sword stabbed into Azeroth, to name a few minor events. Oh, and Garrosh! So I will give any Blood Elf the benefit of the doubt that they’ve had a change of heart when it comes to joining the Alliance or not. Because, again, they aren’t a monolithic hive-mind that follows a singular leader’s political plan to the ends of the immaterial plane and beyond.
Nobody’s saying that they can’t have a change of heart and that the moment you lock in your choice, you’re stuck forever. The thing is that the moment they do, they stop being Blood elves because that identity refers to a very exclusive group of elves that is allied with the Horde.
There are no Blood elves in the Alliance. Do you understand that? Green eyes do not a blood elf make.
Didn’t they became Blood Elves while still a part of the Alliance? (re: Keal’thas declaring them the Blood Elves when he was rallying the survivors to join forces with the remnants of the Alliance)
And thus technically the Blood Elves have been in both Horde AND Alliance?
Yes, and then they very famously left it on extremely bad terms to the point they considered the Horde - who had previously burned down half of Eversong into what’s now Ghostlands - a better ally than the Alliance. There are no blood elves in the Alliance.
I disagree. The reason they took up the name to being with was because their entire world was up-ended by mass death, destruction, and the end of their way of life. If your character still wishes to pay homage to that catastrophe, then they should be permitted to call themselves Blood Elves, no matter the political affiliation. A blood elf is a race, the Kingdom of Quel’Thalas/Silvermoon City is a faction allied to the Horde.
That’s not to mention that Fel permanently scars your body, last I knew at least.
Also, the High Elves were neutral for the vast majority of the lore, if we include the time since the fall of Quel’Thalas til now, only partially joining the Alliance recently? Also, aren’t Blood Elves able to have blue eyes as well, making them High Elf by appearance?