Originally Posted by
ravenmoon
exactly! we're going to argus in 7.3, wanna bet that 7.2 is the last we'll hear about nightborne, night elves this expansion.. we didn't even hear of the shen'dralar the group to which the nightborne, suramar possibly hold the most significance too, nothing.
it would be back to Khadgar, Jaina, Yrel, Velen - Illidan would be there, and that would be your night elf world - Illidan, they'd be discarded and forgotten like they've mostly been for the last 12 years. Remember Cata? the shen'dralar return of the highborne was a very significan t event, lifting of the ban on magic and the exile? practising arcane magic again? A book exploring this sesimic shift was expected, not to mention how their return would impact the high elves and the blood elves and elven relations - it was potentially a reboot for the night elves - what happened? Nothing.
Thrall, goblins, deathwing, etc dominated everything, and they faded - even the worlfheart novel had it as a side issue before the exaltedness of Varian the High King's coronation and the Worgen swooping into to save the poor damsels in distress night elf females against mean Garrosh. I remember how significnat the end of TBC was for the blood elves setting them up for the future, Legion is not going to end with the night elves because it's going to Argus, and the Draenei again will play a large significant role like they did in WoD, squeezing night elf involvement to 7.0-7.2 and probably left dangling ...
Furthermore, I hate to admit it, but i don't think the forum users are all that interested in the nightborne or night elves, since legion started I have perhaps been the most enthusiastic poster on the nightborne and night elven topics, boosting others' threads, expanding the conversations, however they are quickly left behind when i stop or almost always migrate to talking about blood elves and high elves then it becomes a high elf/blood elf thread - showing where most forum users are interested in.
And if they aren't that popular, blizzard will relegate them to sidekicks or less even. Night elves were very popular in WC3, and that didn't save them from nearly completely disappearing from anything significant in the warcraft universe for 14 years until legion was released.
So whiles these events are terribly significant, i won't count on actually having or seeing that reflected.