Originally Posted by
Vaedan
Well, you know the saying "keep your allies close and your enemies closer"? If there is a group of people who poses threat to your safety, you want to have as much information as possible regarding their activities. If these people happen to be citizens of your country, you can do following:
- executre them, risking causing civil unrest and labelling them martyrs
- spy on them and restrict/harass them as much as possible, which cause them to give up on their activities/beliefs and submit to your reign. This approach risks that strong willed individuals will stand up against you.
- exile them. In this case, you remove immediate threat, but you lost all your knowledge of that group, letting them do whatever they want. In addition, you give them solid reason for acting against you, especially when they join superpower you are in war with. Not to mention that void elves are mostly former magisters, so they most likely know some Silvermoon secrets, which can indeed compromise it's safety in the future.
- lastly you can "befriend" them, make them loyal to you. Reward them, make them feel aknowledged and allow them to do what they want in a way safe for you. In this case, you minimize possibility to betray you. Since you are in control of the group, you know what's going on with them and can act.
As we have seen, neither Rommath or Lor'themar knew how to deal with void crisis, so once Sunwell will be endangered by it, they have little to no answer. I can understand why they chose to exile Umbric's group, but it is shortsighted decision based on fear.
As of BfA San'layn appearance in the Horde, yes, Silvermoon most likely took no part in that. What's interesting is that Dark Rangers who stayed with the Horde after Sylvanas left are identifying both with Forsaken and Blood elves. They consider themself part of both societies, rightfuly so. I don't see a reason why should they abandon their elven heritage only because they are undead. They may, but they don't have to. Same could be applied to San'layn, but it all depends on how would they be pictured if this scenario will ever happen.
It indeed is, but it is also minor theme of blood elves as well. Dark Rangers are there since birth of Forsaken and as we seen them actually caring about their homeland for which they died for. Velonara made it pretty clear she feels both Forsaken and Sin'dorei. As of TBC and WotLK, Sylvanas also showed she is still fond of Quel'thalas.
I agree. It could actually lead into interesting stories in the future. One thing it adds to blood elves is their long lost dark side, while not directing whole race to the evil path. They are also one of the most requested race to add right now and I feel this request will continue until we see them implemented in some way (allied race or customization for blood elves/forsaken), as we've seen in the case of high elf request.