10-11-2012, 02:18 PM
Alright, I would just like to open up this thread to discuss something that is bugging me about the Blood Elf lore.
This is from an app I submitted. Now, I made the changes, but it still doesn't make sense to me how this drastic of a change can happen so permanently.
Now, using orcs as an example, them being the only others to suffer from a similar affliction that I can think of. The normally brown orcs were tainted by the burning legion, turning green. The tainted orcs were further tainted by the fel properties of Monnoroth's blood. Grom was a tainted orc turned fel, but was returned to his previous state when monnoroth was killed. All other fel orcs remained fel because they joined illidan. More being created because they had captured a pit lord named magtheridon. Illidan was using Magtheridon's blood to keep the fel orcs fel, and to make new ones. Kil'jaeden having been messing with the orcs on draenor for at least a hundered years or so- tainting them, corrupting them.
Now..High elves had been addicted to magic for a very long time. Without the sunwell they were required to meditate on their addiction or be in proximity to a moon well or other such thing. The addiction was only fatal to the young, elderly, or those already sick. They are the wretched. Now... The high elves/b-elfs were only without the sunwell for one or two years, and as I said there were many different ways of dealing with addiction.
I don't think being a blood elf is JUST about the fact you have green eyes and sucked fel magic to kick back your withdrawls. Blood elves are an ideal, a culture. It's almost like the civil war in america. You got family on both sides. Now for my character, Callith, he is first and foremost a Knight of The Silver Hand. Maybe not according to the reformed Knights, but he has been fighting their cause for many years. Being a 'blood elf' to him, means that his home is Silvermoon, Quel'Thalas. It is where he was born and raised. It is where his family was. It doesn't mean he hates the Alliance, he's known the races of the alliance far longer then those of the horde. Tauren? Didn't hear of them till the horde came about. Orcs? sure, he fought them in two wars. They are cool peoples now that he has gotten to know them, though. Undead? Really? They are dead. They don't like shiny holy men with all their positivity. For as recent information provided by the Blizzard Creative Development team says that, while it is possible for Forsaken with intensely strong willpower to use the Holy Light, it is very painful for them to do so. Holy Light spells can still heal the Forsaken but they must suffer nobly. The trolls and Elves have been at it forever.
However, he has never been to war against humans, gnomes, dwarves, or night elves. Granted his race has a history with night elves. Instead... he has fought beside the alliance races through three wars, and been amongst them for a little over a hundred.
Callith has lived and breathed the holy light since he was young. I just don't get how the lore can be so backwards...aside from blizzard needing it to be so they can keep the amount of horde/alliance races equal.
But this is a roleplay server... it shouldn't be confined to blizzard lore, we are more sensible.
-Michael
(10-09-2012, 01:47 AM)Loxmardin Wrote: [ -> ]Unfortunately, the eyes of the Blood Elves won't revert themselves back again in a very long time. The fel energies that they were either exposed to or actually consumed in order to continue to sustain themselves have caused a mutation in them. All Blood Elves got green eyes from the fel residue coarsing through their entire systems, and some even got redder skin as a result to give an example of how thorough these changes became. This doesn't go away in just a few years, and it's not even certain that the fel taint is going to go away in a single Blood Elf's lifetime.
So, you'd have to change your eyecolour back to green.
This is from an app I submitted. Now, I made the changes, but it still doesn't make sense to me how this drastic of a change can happen so permanently.
Now, using orcs as an example, them being the only others to suffer from a similar affliction that I can think of. The normally brown orcs were tainted by the burning legion, turning green. The tainted orcs were further tainted by the fel properties of Monnoroth's blood. Grom was a tainted orc turned fel, but was returned to his previous state when monnoroth was killed. All other fel orcs remained fel because they joined illidan. More being created because they had captured a pit lord named magtheridon. Illidan was using Magtheridon's blood to keep the fel orcs fel, and to make new ones. Kil'jaeden having been messing with the orcs on draenor for at least a hundered years or so- tainting them, corrupting them.
Now..High elves had been addicted to magic for a very long time. Without the sunwell they were required to meditate on their addiction or be in proximity to a moon well or other such thing. The addiction was only fatal to the young, elderly, or those already sick. They are the wretched. Now... The high elves/b-elfs were only without the sunwell for one or two years, and as I said there were many different ways of dealing with addiction.
I don't think being a blood elf is JUST about the fact you have green eyes and sucked fel magic to kick back your withdrawls. Blood elves are an ideal, a culture. It's almost like the civil war in america. You got family on both sides. Now for my character, Callith, he is first and foremost a Knight of The Silver Hand. Maybe not according to the reformed Knights, but he has been fighting their cause for many years. Being a 'blood elf' to him, means that his home is Silvermoon, Quel'Thalas. It is where he was born and raised. It is where his family was. It doesn't mean he hates the Alliance, he's known the races of the alliance far longer then those of the horde. Tauren? Didn't hear of them till the horde came about. Orcs? sure, he fought them in two wars. They are cool peoples now that he has gotten to know them, though. Undead? Really? They are dead. They don't like shiny holy men with all their positivity. For as recent information provided by the Blizzard Creative Development team says that, while it is possible for Forsaken with intensely strong willpower to use the Holy Light, it is very painful for them to do so. Holy Light spells can still heal the Forsaken but they must suffer nobly. The trolls and Elves have been at it forever.
However, he has never been to war against humans, gnomes, dwarves, or night elves. Granted his race has a history with night elves. Instead... he has fought beside the alliance races through three wars, and been amongst them for a little over a hundred.
Callith has lived and breathed the holy light since he was young. I just don't get how the lore can be so backwards...aside from blizzard needing it to be so they can keep the amount of horde/alliance races equal.
But this is a roleplay server... it shouldn't be confined to blizzard lore, we are more sensible.
-Michael