But you've created this entire scenario yourself. None of this has any place in fact. I'm basing *my* assumptions on clues that we have. A. A High Elf with strong ties to the Void. B. untextured male and female models for VoidElf, and C. Void Elves listed under playable races in datamining, with some flags for and some against.
That's enough for me to connect Alleria to them, and to acknowledge that the narrative of the Void in her character arc, as the only "Void Elf" we have currently, is that the Void can be used for good.
To spin it as a completely unrelated force kind of derails it in favor of pure speculation.
I have a question for you: If you had to think of a purpose for Alleria's narrative and her attaining a "Void Form", what would you think it is, at least in terms of upcoming content? Do you have any speculation on that topic?
I mean I'll be honest I'm still unconvinced Highmountain and Lightforged mean anything.
It's kinda not been mentioned, but copy/paste and hasty data editing so they don't end up showing up in character select DOES exist. And would probably explain the fact that they have some things matching a race and other things not.
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I am going to share an idea with you lot here.
I believe, that voidelf is not a literal designation. It is an internal codename for Ethereals.
To add to this, the gear that got leaked a couple days ago (the Sword and Shield, and the Off-Hand) has a colour scheme that matches (for the most part) the Ethereals' new models, a prime example being Locus Walker: This is naught but a theory, BUT, a possibility nonetheless.
Both our things are entirely self-created.
Literally all we have is a database entry that says Void Elf and three items that people debate if it looks more Nightborne or Night Elven, tinted that dark purple/black of the void.
Void Elf doesn't point to Alleria at all, nothing about it points to anything definitive and we won't know for sure until Blizzcon.
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Mine are not entirely. Mine are based on existing files and an existing narrative. (Or are you going to tell me the narrative of Alleria's arc and the audio drama is not that the Light and the Void are the same kind of force, both good and evil in different hands?) You've based yours on a potential narrative for an expansion we know nothing about.
The only speculation in my scenario is where I think all of this might be going, but it wasn't relative to my last post.
IDK, I guess. Still would be at least 4 or 5 zones for the potential sub races though. Thats a lot of work. Why the race started joined the faction could be explained in the narrator talking while camera pans around zone thing anyways. If they did the 1 zone thing like I said.
I mean I can disarm your assumptions and have in two threads now.
Unless Blizz asspulls some "time flows differently in the void" AND totally retcons Locus-Walkers motivations with Alleria, Void Elves cannot be playable. There is NO way that Locus-Walker would take on new apprentices AND train them in the span of time that the Argus Campaign takes place.
And Alleria only knows how to turn on a void form. And only learned that by eating an entire Void Naaru. There's nothing that indicates a new race here. Heck, her powers to me are more a new class than race, too.
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I dont think not liking it is a good enough reason to not do it again tbh. If it makes the most sense I think they will do it again.
Races that can go faction specific. Ogres + more
Races that MUST be neutral. Naga, Ethereal. I could potentially see an expansion where both of these are added and both are cool enough to not make too many people angry, but Ill still be salty if I cant play both on my faction of choice.
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Lore wise Ethereals make most sense being neutral. Lore wise Naga could go either way, but fan outcry would be immense.