this isnt a subject that interests me personally but i know that blood elf players tend to have a strange obsession with the idea of racial and cultural purity so i figured it might be of interest to them.
we know trolls and elves have common ancestry so they can probably breed. and the horde is pioneering relations between trolls and elves to levels never thought possible before. we have the zandalari empire teamed up with the highborne night elves with no hint of trouble or bad blood between them. it's an amazing feat of diplomacy.
we know that no matter what, when you start getting 2 cultures friendly and near each other they naturally get close and begin to intermingle and breed. it seems likely to me that half-troll half-elves are possible and no doubt the horde is the #1 place these relationships can thrive.
since blood elves and nightborne are both almost extinct and don't breed anywhere near close to the rate that trolls do, it seems very likely that in the near future, the already dwindling elf populations could see a surge of half-elf half-troll births. as this went on, we'd naturally see the genetics trend more toward the troll side to things, just as a natural result of trolls breeding faster than elves. further along in the timeline we'd likely see silvermoon's toxic culture dismantled as those with troll ancestry push for more troll culture in the city, and both silvermoon and suramar eventually being subsumed into a greater troll empire within or beside the horde, while elf "purists" are rightfully scorned and exiled for their backwards conservative views on race.
i am 100% all for this btw, i love the idea of half elf half trolls as a race, and it sounds like the logical path forward for the blood elf story and the horde culture as a whole, more integration, more intermingling, and a stronger, better nation from the sum of its parts. it would also be a great way for blizzard to come down against the undercurrents of fascism and racism that exist not only in the horde storyline since bfa, but as we have seen, are deeply rooted in the horde fanbase itself.
what do you think? could we see half elf/half trolls as a potential future allied race, replacing blood elves? or is this something that could be a cool new addition for the horde in warcraft 4?