What is the common name for Nightborne?

[blobthebob]

Evening Elves?

Dusk Elf?

[derpkitteh]

shelf!!!

Its shelf!!!

the elf that is the shelf.

someone photoshop the toy elf sitting on thalyssra's shoulder.

[AxellSlade]

Shadow Elves? Shaldo'rei means Children of Shadow if I'm not mistaken, just like Kal'dorei means Children of Stars(Night Elves).

[Acherus01]

Shal'dorei - isn't it?

[Friendlyimmolation]

the elf that is the shelf.

someone photoshop the toy elf sitting on thalyssra's shoulder.

A Liadrin doll sitting on her shoulder.

[procne]

Crack elves and smurfs sounds fine to me.

[Zerzuru]

Shaldorei means children of the night, but obviously night elf is already taken by the kaldorei, children of the stars.

Star elves then. If n elves stolen their name it seams fair for Nightborne to reply this.

[Odinfrost]

Star elves then. If n elves stolen their name it seams fair for Nightborne to reply this.

It's kinda hard of stealing from yourself

[Zerzuru]

It's kinda hard of stealing from yourself

I suppose it is,but it is a 10k years evolution gap between them . So ... what you mean ?

[Vasaru]

I could season my food at this point.

Again, you know nothing.

[Deleted]

Nightborne should be called Night Elves, because that's what Shal'dorei means - Children of the Night. Kaldorei actually means Children of the Stars, not of the Night. So nelves are actually star elves, or stelves.

[Deleted]

Back-stabbers

[McFuu]

Twinks

/10

[Powerogue]

Perhaps they're called NBE's

Nelves, Belves, and now NBelves. Pronounced N'belves. Yep.

Hmm, what about the void elves? Velves?

[shoc]

I would call them Drow Elves for the sake of preserving RPG tropes. The white hair does it for me.

[Crillam]

Dark Elves are dark purple to black, Nightborne are blue.
Dark Elves do not work with other races, except for short periods of time, Nightborne is allied to Orcs, Trolls etc.
Dark Elves use magic for everything, Nightborne are no more magical that any other warcraft elf.
Dark Elves live underground, Nightborne live in a city.

As I said, there are NO similarities between the two..

Why does blizzard have to follow other games/lore rules?

[Friendlyimmolation]

I would call them Drow Elves for the sake of preserving RPG tropes. The white hair does it for me.

how many Drizzts in the first week will you see?

[derpkitteh]

how many Drizzts in the first week will you see?

i expect many. though i'm on an rp server, they'll be forced changed soon. especially after the p60 ordeal.

i still see a few illidans around though.

[yetgdhfgh]

I will be calling them Nbelfs from now on and i suspect many others may do too

[Fyersing]

I still hold to my earlier statement, that Blizzard elected to utilize their formal demonym (Nightborne) solely because these people would likely self-identify as "Night Elves", which would confuse a great deal of players on the character creation screen.

Edit: If it helps, imagine the Nightborne as a political faction of Night Elves (instead of a distinct race). They wouldn't be ecstatic about calling them Night Elves, though they might be, because it would cause confusion.