Indeed, and the Winter Queen certainly isn't limited to "death" magic nor the pantheon life means they can all cast nature magic. Life and death here is more in relation to what side of existence you are on - think of it as the realm of the living and the realm of the dead. She is a "God" pantheon in the realm of the living - i.e life pantheon. Not that you do nature magic. Perhaps you found it easy to make the association with Elune because you view the night elves primarily as nature eves. But remember she is a goddess, and Azeroth/Night elves are not the only races nor planets that worship her. Remember they knew Elune before they met Cenarius.. The Well of Eternity and Elune came first, then the teachings for Cenarius.. whiles they grew in Cenarius' teachings, arcane exploits started taking off as large sections of the populace wanted more than just forest musing.
Notice they didn't want to replace nature or substitute, they still wanted it, they just yearned for more.. of course they would they are made from the arcane, and had been studying the well, , nature would never be the only thing they're limited to. We've never seen Elune spells related to nature magic either -which should tell you a lot, arcane, light, void yes. But being a goddess she is likely able to use the full spectrum. The Titans are lesser beings, and considered the arcane pantheon of sorts, yet we know they operate in nature magic, light magic too at increidble levels.
Ravenmoon made a point a while ago in one of our discussions (which he probably shared about on here, or maybe I did), that nature is a derivative of order.. it certainly seems so, they compliment each other well, and the arcane always boosts nature, furthermore, life emerges from the well of eternity, and the arcane is the building blocks of all matter (this is mentioned several times) but more volatile and difficult to handle as icompared to easier to grasp and more sablislied nature 9which makes snese - is manipulating atoms easier than growing plants and using fertiliser and other technique? which concepts are easier to grasp? farming or quantum physics?). What the arcane does is a necessary component to life. So it seems like nature is a fusion of arcane and light, but it's on thing and connected. that has nothing to do with Elune being a life pantheon.. it just means she's part of the pantheon of gods in the realm of the living.. but sadly now fans, associating night elves constantly only with nature (thanks blizz for not properly clarifying the race in-game , though you did it well in lore - most of the fans don't read the books or the lore if it's not their fave race), sadly means they are not interpreting Elune as some nature goddess, despite no previous evidence given.
All we know about Elune is that she is part of the Order of Creation in the Life half existence, that holds it together, she could literally channel every cosmic power out there as her dominion is in the realm of the "Living"
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Brings back memories. It also highlights how similar the night elf and nightborne old models are, the night elf eyes are far narrower, the poise better. They uglified them further in 6.0, and part of me is very annoyed at them for doing that..I was thoroughly expecting the opposite. Clearly, the elf love again went to the Thalassian elf (when I saw the blood elf new model), when it should have gone to the night elf - who really needed it.
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ravenmoon - thanks for keeping the night elf side of the topic going. Lots of blood elf fans on here, so it's nice to see night elf fans get engaged, lest people think only the horde fans view matters. Let's continue the discussion on all things Elune, arcane, nature, wardens, illidari etc etc. new nightelf home, how the race should be developed, our views on it etc.