Originally Posted by
Snowraven
But that's the whole issue, allying with the Highbourne from Dire Maul is like allying with the Old Gods to destroy the Legion. In the end, the Highbourne are the perfect example on why arcane magic is bad. And, while humans proved that arcane magic can be used good... blood/high elves showed how much it corrupts, since they were reduced to junkies for magic, even syphoning magic from living creatures to feed their hunger. And the Highbourne did the exact same thing, only worse, they summoned demons to suck magic out of!
As I said, if there was an important enough reason, there were other options for them. They lived for 10k years alongside furbolgs who practiced shamanism in peace. They had their tauren friends who also practiced shamanism. They had the draenei, with whom they share so much in their struggle against the Legion, practice shamanism. And the Cataclysm was more related to the elements revolting, so shamanism would have been the perfect choice. Night elves had never seen how shamanism can be used badly yet they've seen it be used for good. On the other hand, they've seen arcane magic be used to perform genocide upon their species by the practitioners of it, they've seen the arcane users wither away and become junkies and syphoning arcane from living creatures, they've seen them summoning demons just to feed their hunger and killing those they do not agree with... yet they still chose arcane?
Now, you say they might have not known about what the Highbourne were doing. Let's say they didn't, although there are sentinels giving quests in Dire Maul now and the spirit night elf was quite anxious to tell you her story. What will happen when night elves find out? Will not be that Maiev's actions will become justified when she tried to kill the Highbourne? Was she not right?