Nightelves' new home. My biased speculation.

[Every Pwny]

Is it like that in the horde version? The Alliance quests (likely to be after the horde quests in the time line) suggest that the horde gets repelled on most fronts.

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They won't go to Val'Shara. That's Cenarion Circle land for most of it. Stop mixing up the druid faktion with the Darnassus night elves.

Horde questing happens before alliance questing in cata, you repel them back on alliance side in Ashenvale and in 5.3 and obviously SoO the night elves are attacking through Ashenvale and get it back.

[Jastall]

Gameplay wise obviously they won't. Lorewise - its a very logical thing for them to do after losing their main city and huge chunk of their population.

It's hard to say how many NEs dwell in Teldrassil and if their loss will be so crippling, even ignoring the possibility that the place could be at least partly evacuated before burning completely. They have settlements all over Kalimdor, especially in Darkshore, Ashenvale and Feralas, with other outposts strewn about. There's certainly enough Night Elves to organize an anti-Horde resistance, especially with Alliance support which will be coming given the datamined conflicts in Kalimdor. I very much doubt their will abandon their millennial homeland without putting up a helluva fight.

[Plehnard]

The information datamined about the Teldrassil attack so far mentions Felwood and Winterspring. It's a moronic path for the Horde to take if they travel by land. Given that and the small size of the army chances are they travel by air.

Some times all it takes to win a war is to go the unsuspected route. French and British forces were on par with the German forces at the start of WW2 but the Allied were taken by surprise because the Germans took the route thru the Ardennes mountains.

[Zelk]

It'll be an empty farmhouse in stormwind actually

[Trassk]

Don't want those dam elves infecting the emerald dreamway, there's more races dedicated to druidism then just them.

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Alliance AND Horde are getting controll back of the zones, that has been mentioned by Blizzard multiple time now.
All that happens is a burned (unusable tree) and a blightened (unsuable) Undercity, the rest is not changing neither ingame nor lorewise.

Show some info on this, I'd like context

[Felfaadaern Darkterror]

Gameplay wise obviously they won't. Lorewise - its a very logical thing for them to do after losing their main city and huge chunk of their population.

Lorewise, most of them lived in the surrounding forests anyway. They will simply shadowmeld into the trees and keep fighting for their home.

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How on earth is the Horde going to remove the Night Elves from Hyjal without attacking the Ancients? The Tauren will go apeshit if the Forsaken throw blight at Malorne.

^^^^This. Horde cannot attack neutral factions without fighting their own members. What's next? Horde attacks Earthen Ring, Light's Hope Chapel, and Acherus?

[ravenmoon]

The Nightelves won't simply abandon their settlements on continental Kalimdor.

Exactly, however, while htey will contiue to fight to claim it back there, they'd have to have a new home.

Broken Isles most suits them - City wise, the most likely candidate is Suramar - whether they will hold the whole city, or the non-instanced portion of it - some sort of scenario where they actually share with the nightborne (which would be a bold move by blizz since that would mean night elves (kal and shal'dorei perhaps won't have the faction conflict bind them as much - ofc the habitation could not be peaceful, it could be forced, with the two groups at a deadlock.

An alternative for a city is a rebuilt Azsuna, which could possibly involve a restored Court of Farondis.


I don't see any realistic option for the night elves outside the broken isles. If the horde totally claim Kalimdor, it is not inconceivable that they would then grab at least Suramar, Val'sharah and Azsuna, possibly Highmountain too - seeing that the nightborne and highmontain have very tauren and night elf zones to feel at home in Kalimdor

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Horde questing happens before alliance questing in cata, you repel them back on alliance side in Ashenvale and in 5.3 and obviously SoO the night elves are attacking through Ashenvale and get it back.

That's true, and a good point, same with Hyjal/moonglade/felwood/winterspring are all Cenarion Circle land, so even if the horde control kalidmr, you will still see night elves around, but they're neutral ones.

The faction night elves are different. same with val'sharah... curerently neutral as well as azsuna and could easily sitill be neutral or allied witht eh nightborne, blizzard would have to change that neutrality if they want to give the night elf faction those places.

but yes, night elf druids /= night elf faction just as ARgent Dawn humans /= Stormwind humans