Originally Posted by
MyWholeLifeIsThunder
Agreed; I actually feel like Night Elves were intended to replace both thematically and in the lore High Elves, and the first look we got at the sentinels and druids in War3 felt like that, and allowed the Thalassian Elves to veer to a more high fantasy route, as well then the development of Blood Elves.
But Now well into a decade of WoW, the whole "celtic druidic ranger" thematic and aesthetic High Elves had on war2 is just lost: The Sentinels turned out to be basically a military, the druids are nature worshipping hippies, the Blood Elven farstriders are a group of less magical archer elves that really don't get much air time.
And it's really a bummer that that War2 Elf fantasy is just lost, because it still has a place in WoW given how the other elf races have developed.