Originally Posted by
CaptainV
A sub-race option is plausable but there are better ways, the High Elves are the only alliance race barring half-elves that actually exist in the current lore that isnt a new race recently joined. Its more than likely we will see the High Elves playable at some point, but how, is anyones guess.
Thats a bit of an obnoxiously narrow sighted statement, not to mention Blood Elves became the "next" generation of High Elves, so technically, the Blood Elves are the rip offs.
High Elves are a plausable race option, but one would need serious retcons before it was possible, for a start, you'd have to rephrase that 1% of the high elf populace is all that remains, as according to the statistics, the source acclaimed that roughly 10% of the populace remained after the whole quel'thalas being destroyed by Arthas incident, most of which became blood elves.
This would have to be changed to a statistic more feezable, like 25% of the elves, of which 15% went blood elf, and the remaining 10% remained high elves.
As to the story the high elves can tell, well thats fairly self-explanitory, they need a new home, quel'thalas while they claim it to be theirs is clearly not, and unlikely ever will be again.
This gives opportunity to add the high elves during a south sea's expansion due to the potential of finding new islands to colonise.