
Originally Posted by
MyWholeLifeIsThunder
"...and became the Legions pawn" very interesting how you cut out the phrase by half, as if to obfuscate its complete meaning.
Sure we even had a Warlock character on WoD speaking of how she was in route of helping Liadrin's forces in Aunchindoun before joining our garrison. As if blood elves hold no prejudices or segregation solely based on class. Man, this whole narrative that the fel was a secret just doesn't add up.
Almost as if use of fel isn't a signifier of morality! Who would have thunk!?
Okay but the bit about "you could take Blood Elf warlocks out of the story and wouldn't change anything" did make me laugh. I mean sure, lets just take away the neon sign that literally said "beware of elves now, they are rude now." Like, the whole level of missing the point to not understand the function of BE Warlocks as the bare bone-est signifier that Blood Elves are the edgy version of High Elves and that they will do anything to survive.
And they did, and Warlocks continue to be a part of Blood Elf society, to the point Warlocks work with Paladins.
And I don't even get why it's an either/or scenario with you lot. The obsession people like you with things like "the race's story direction" betrays a misunderstanding that groups are not monoliths and that there WILL be different point of views. We literally see it with Umbric's scholars, the problem with them is that they were a pointed threat to the Sunwell itself.
Like for real, I just do not get the notion that a race HAS to have one single narrative direction/motivation. It's entirely unrealistic to believe that. Silvermoon was rebuilt on fel, and thankfully, unlike fans like you, Lor'themar is not going to oust its users as long as they are law abiding citizens.
So let's retake this if Fel ever gets banned from Silvermoon, shall we?
In the meantime, I will keep hoping for more Fel, undead and farstrider options for Blood Elves, and you can clutch your pearls if you want to.
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That's kinda my take too -specifically, one of the WoD garrison BE Warlock followers holds the title Magistrix-
I think it's just kinda wild to claim Blood Mages are proper mages when there's so much more overlap between them as concepts, and at the end of the day, the fact that Blizzard gave Warlocks the Verdant Spheres ability -and now fel shards- makes obvious that the Blood Mage/Warlock link was intentional.