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Mace
In WotA trilogy, it appeared that Azshara was jealous of Tyrande, at least thew ay the author wrote it.. he did mention she was considered as beautiful or nearly as baeutiful as Azshara, and seeing that she had none of the aura enhancements of the throne or arcane - it could be that peopel would have foundtyrande more attractive than an un-enhanced Azshara /shurg.
Yeh,
Cienamtic Alleria is stunning - I find her more beautiful than alive Sylvanas model wise. Sylvanas has a more handsome square face than her sister, still pretty/beautiful, but Alleria seems more so.
Jaina is also quite pretty too, I like her newer model ... sems like she looks even prettier
Agreed, dunno why the game model justfails to capture how good the cinematic model looks.
Malfurion actually looks pretty good looking too in the Terror of Darkshore cinematic - and I'm glad of it - they didn't make him old and wrinkly - which to be honest really doesn't fit the druid lore. I had this discussion a few times wtih my brother.. overall we concluded the art direction for night elf males - who are mostly druids was contrary to lore.
Malfurion isn't though - in lore, druids have life nourishing nature magic, this should even be more powerful than the arcane in keeping you healthy and young, + they were immortal throughout the long vigil + they slept for most of the time.
In earnest fact, the males should look youthful, maybe with only 1 wrinkly face in character creation rather than the opposite which gives them only 1 smooth face.
I know why they gave them wrinkly faces - they thought, oh, they're 10k years old, they're ancient - and thought or sun weathering etc, and went with that - but it's the opposite, they're elves, not human, Magical - flowing with nature and arcane suffusion, super healthy, enhanced by the magic of the Well of Eternity, the nourishing moonwell arcane magic combined with the nature magic emanating with the Emerald dream - they should actually look incredibly healthy , young and beautiful. Even better than their pre-sundering versions because they'd be less haughty, more fit, and have nicer more charming and manly expressions.
Also reflecting the druids should be the fact that they love beauty - druids idea of beauty is the natural beauty of nature - they love it so much they don't bother with adorning themselves with beautiful clothes or beautiful buildings - but most people don't even think about these things, and therefore don't realise that this is exclusively a druid thing.
Night elves love beauty, those who aren't druids, like priests, warriors, mages, civilians, love the beauty of clothes, and buildings as well as nature. The Highborne are obsessed with it. SO the idea that night elves are somehow uglier than high/blood elves is silly. They should be just as remarkable 0 but with their own colour palette.
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Druidism is a distinct way of life, and it's not the only one amongst night elves. The oldest and main way is the Elunism, and the Order of Elune encapsulates and preserves the wasy of the kaldorei people. It isn't druidism, or the culture of the Highborne which is a 3rd way, the way of life developed during Azshara's reign - that while still having respect of elune, and liking flowers and traditions, developed their own culture of intrigue based around civil leadership vying for power etc as well as nobility (like Farondis shows) - proving to you that there is uncorrupted nobility and the Highborne weren't always the viscous bunch Azshara and her lackeys turned into.
The high elves showed a version of that night elven Highborne culture, but what people like Tanaria and others seemed to forget is that the high elves did not replicate, they formed a new version all their own. Off course it has similarities, they aren't religious, nature doesn't old as high a regard, but things are also different, they're more egalitarian for one, they have a monarchy led by a king instead. This doesn't affect academics.. scinee is science, whether you do it in kaldorei culture, Dalaran culture or high elven culture - they wouldn't need to change the way they name their mages or call things of the arcane just because they switch from the moon and stars to the sun - academics will be the same - and this is what people sometimes confuse - they go -"oh, they have arcane it must be teh same because they're elves and the Highborne thing - look they even use the same titles and arcane words -- /sigh. It's like saying because Gnomes and Human mages in the alliance (or Dwarves and Gnome mages) also use those same terms, therefore they are the same culture.
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