Originally Posted by
MyWholeLifeIsThunder
Nah mate, the point is that you don't have reading comprehension. That we have "a few high elf customizations available" doesn't meant blue eyed blood elves refer to themselves as High Elves within the universe. If you are unable to sepárate the aesthetics from the lore, this argument is pointless.
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Again, I agree on the "should"-Modern High Elves should change their name to something else- not much more to say that beyond that, the point is that we have to deal with the reality as it is now, and in that manner is that I believe that "Thalassian" is a good way to refer to all the elves of thalassian origin, regardless of any political or biological differences -because it also includes void elves, and illidari elves- But yeah, overall it's an aside point to refer to elfdom of Quel'thalas as a whole.
I mean that's the point, that every prefix denotes origin; as I said, if High Elves dropped the "High", it would be replaced from the place/group they originate/come from now. Dalaran High Elves become "Dalarani Elves" like the Quel'danil HE's became "Highvale Elves", and the remaining HE's on the alliance could change their name to anything, more so if they band together politically.
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And here lies your issue, you deem the discussion over, because to you is simply about aesthetics; you don't get to make a fuzz when I tell you that aesthetics is just one issue about High Elves; You keep making it just about the aesthetics to end the conversation "they both look like high elves now", great, what does that have to do with the lore about the elves that still call themselves High Elves and are either alliance or neutral?
Cause again, "lorewise" a Void Elf is also still a Void Elf -we don't even have solid confirmation that Void Elves have been recruiting High Elves in their ranks to specifically give them an alliance high Elf origin"; the whole point why "HE customization on VE's" has value on the first place for HE fans because we get aesthetics closer to the high elven groups already on the alliance, such as the highvale, silver covenant and others.
But as long as you keep pretending that aesthetics is the only thing that matters -and has mattered- in the high elf discussion for the last 1k pages, just reveals how much you miss the point of what people really want and are asking for.
Case in point. Not because you want the conversation to be over it will be over. Accept that and move on with your life.
Because after the aesthetics issue is settled, then we will be probably talking about what's next for the Alliance High Elves; change their name? merge with Void Elves? merge with humans and give us Half Elves?
Dude, the discussion about high elves will never be over, because people like to talk about high