Originally Posted by
ravenmoon
Lush environments? what lush environments do they have? The only zone they have is Teldrassil, they supposedly control darkshore but that's a mess --- the rest is clearly not in their hands - with the Cenarion circle controlling most of the north, the horde tauren and orcs dominating Ashenvale/stonetalon mountain & Feralas certainly not all night elven. Desolace they had their base KO'd so that leaves nothing. the middle patch again is Cenarion Circle - Tauren led, the other base is a Troll village. Azsuna is a pile of ruins, Val'sharah is druid land and also wrecked by the nightmare. Suramar is nightborne land - the moonguard a wiped out, and they were never part of the night elf group anyway.
So where is this lush environment that they have?
-yes, i'm a bit emo atm, but show me.
a lot of head canon or fanfic here. I'll warn you right here, stop looking for hopeful endings for night elves, if you're emotionally invested get out now. For 14 years i've been following this and looking and waiting - every time without fail this races either disappoints or fails to perform. If they survive, nothing amazing comes out of it, they always end up worse off than they were So they've already lost their magic, their immortality, their other boons - and no the dragon blessings didn't restore immunity to disease or elements etc I checked, they're still frail and sick in Wolfheart.
they are losing their Well of Eternity just at the time they started using magic again huh - so much good it did them and are being over run. Meanwhile someone points out earlier, humans, orcs etc have also had losses too, yeah, but they've grown too incredibly, humans have come up from burnt down Stormwind, plagued Lordaeron and are all over the world, despite their losses they keep getting stronger, Orcs were slaves at the end of WC2, sure they've had losses, since but look at them, a world power. Tauren were on the verge of extinction - now they got zones, cities, discovered 3 sub-race groups of them in 3 different continents. Darkspears were rescued from destruction by Thrall having to leave their ancestral lands, now look at them, Echo isles, horde leadership till Vol'jin dies, but before he does that he got back Zul'Gurub.
What do night elves do when they win? they lose more stuff, they get weaker more and more, the evidence points at that.. not wishful thinking or hoping of some recovery or salvation. The guy above me thinks they have stuff.. no they don't, they once did, but they've lost it all, they only got Teldrassil effectively. Yeah, once they covered the world. But from their story start it's been down hill, from the world to the sundering, a little rise over 10k years, but now all going way..