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There are many facets of races that are there, because they've been mentioned as a huge part of the race in the past or present, that survived to the present and play a role.. but you just don't see it. doesn't mean it isn't there and isn't large.
Prime examples:
1. Farstrider blood elves - plays a huge role, but you have very little in the blood elf presentation focusing or highlighting it.. but it's there.
2. Light side blood elf paladins and priests - this is another big part of the race, that up until WoD, was mentioned as being there, but little to nothing was shown in game, until they started homing down on it
3. Draenei arcane - this is a huge part the Eredar are great at, and masters 25,000 years ago, their greatest achievements, like the night elves are in the distant part, but the skill and expertise is still apart of the race - it's there, and been mentioned, just not brought out as blizzard's largely only focused on the priest and paladin light bits so far - but it's there
4. Draenei technologists - this is also another huge part, seen in their buildings and tech, but it's not been focused on seriously in the draenei yet - do we assume because we've not seen much that it's a tiny part
As for night elves, both the arcane and Elune have not been focused much on till cata and Legion and BFA - it was almost entirely druid focus, but the lore on the night elven civilization, magic users, the Shen'dralar etc is all there, then they started showing us bits in cata and legion, .. as for Elune, she's been a huge part too in the lore, but all we saw was druid still the night warrior quest started showing us more of Elune. Technically it started in Legion with CoEn - but even there they didn't delve much into the lore for the quests,
So we should know by now there is a lot of stuff that is core to races that haven't always been in the spotlight in wow. And usually people miss it if it's not in the opening levels the race is introduced. Some races like draenei, and night elves, blood elves too, have a lot of stuff written into them that wow doesn't really show fully - because it spends so much time showing us humans and orcs.. but its has introduced to us these big facets of the other races and it seems to have this habit of switching to them for a while .. Blood elf focus now has been the Light for some time, Night elf was the mages, but now is Elune after being almost completely druidic in the first 6 years.
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Perfect time to focus on Farstriders and get some scars/tattoos and rough beards - in customisation
Speaking of which, night elves can get their Elune arcane stars tattoos which would be great for both the Priest fantasy and the Highborne/arcane fantasy - very night elf - and the thing is, it doesn't look out of place on a druid, because it's more a race attribute thing, not restricted to the arcane or Elune even though both are the source -- druids also use arcane and even have an Elune talent or 3.