Easily disproved thanks to our new video source where Chris Metzen talks about the genesis of the Blood Elves. He brings up that the impetus for the reimagining of the High Elf trope was what they did with Night Elves.
We know from other interviews that the Night Elf 'reimagining' was in fact the conflation of two other tropes from wider fantasy, Dark Elves and Wood Elves. Dark Elves, with their female societies and preference for the night and the wood elves harmony with the forests and nature.
They aren't referring to ancient stories when they talk about this, they are talking about Dungeons and Dragons versions of these races they had invented. Dungeons and Dragons as I am sure you are aware basically created early modern fantasy, with all the High Fantasy settings created since it's inception heavily borrowing from it. Warhammer is an example of a franchise that heavily borrowed from D and D.Warcraft was initially conceived as a Warhammer rts in the very beginning and they couldn't get the license. They knew exactly what tropes and stereotypes they were pillaging and inverting to forge their own lore.
And wouldn't you know it, Chris Metzen is a huge Dungeons and Dragons fan.
https://us.battle.net/forums/en/over...ic/20749037340
So no, they aren't reaching back to ancient stories or old lore to inform their storytelling. Those who came before like Gygax already did that. They are taking what Gygax did and inverting it. Those are the stereotypes they were working with.
Which is why we have Night Elves and Blood Elves.
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Really? Because in the video Chris Metzen says clearly Blood Elves are High Elves.
And Ion says Blood Elves are High Elves thirteen years later.
And Alliance High Elves still aren't playable.
So I doubt the video is outdated if every statement on the matter since has simply been restating what Chris Metzen said.