Umm... Since getting the sun well back at the end of tbc, the blood elves have gotten their original font of power to suckle from again. The reason they have green is due to absorbing fel energy. Seeing how the sun well is actually light energy now and not arcane, blood elves should get yellow eyes and not blue eyes (which they are getting in bfa). So to "purify them thoroughly" would still make blood elves but with yellow eyes and not blue.
They are dark elves as in having somethign to do with darkness, void and/or night - the trope fits.
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The purification process could be arcane in nature and that would solve the problem. They could also have purple or dark blue eyes because of void corruption or whatnot - the possibilities of small nuances are endless after the ally gets proper elves.
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Someone should merge this with this one
https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...ion-Megathread
If all those high elf-whiners received a dollar for every high elf thread, they could've alrdy afford themselves their own World of Elfcraft game by now.
I want more voidier Void Elves please.
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Purified Void Elves would be Blood Elves.
Also Void Elves should have never been added in.
I think every High Elf fan is missing one major thing Blizzard is attempting to imply (or even outrightly state) - there will be no High Elves as we know them.
Blizzard seems intent on reverting from as much of typical fantasy races as possible. They started with stanard humans, orcs, dwarves, elves, etc. as we know them in other franchises. Except over time, starting around W2 and elaborating in W3 and further in WoW they tried to change the archetypes as much as possible:
W3 introduced Night Elves, a variation of elves that still love nature, but they aren't fair-skinned lithe beings, instead they are tall, strong, darkskinned druidic race. Additionally, with dark-skinned elves being usually associated with evil (i.e. Drow), they made them actually the opposite, even though they lore-wise prefer darkness of the night.
Orcs turned from being dumb brutes into honourable beings who were used by the demons instead of being evil on their own accord.
Trolls aren't fat, large and stupid, instead they are wily, agile and cunning beings who practice magical arts and voodoo; also they represent one of races that have greater diversity and amount to a large percentage of world's population.
I assume too much was already established for humans, dwarves or gnomes in earlier incarnations of Warcraft universe, but still all 3 races received the history of being descendants of machine- or golem-like beings created by titans, later only transformed into beings of flesh.
Elves, being probably one of the most popular fantasy races, knowing there are usually plenty of variations of them in various franchises and universes, were actually quite easy to modify. The first-to-be High Elves have become Blood Elves in the TBC - at this point the idea of most elves being typical treehugging goody-two-shoes was gone; main elven races are supposed to be Blood and Night Elves - Blizz decided not to kill off or change all High Elves for whatever reason, but they had no itention to make them playable.
Come allied races, they allowed cross-faction subraces. Alliance got Void Elves, a group of Blood Elves that are shunned by their brethren and taken under wings of one of few remaining non-Night Alliance-affiliated elves before they destroyed themselves; Horde gets Nightborne, a group of former Night Elves that decided to separate themselves from others, similarly as once-High-now-Blood Elves did, and suffer from similar fate - magic addiction.
Lots of words, most people won't probably read it so let me get to TL;DR part - I would definetely expect more elves to show up as allied races (Darkfallen San'layn come to mind), or maybe even something else similar to Void Elves (that seem like a quick idea that wasn't thought through, even if it probably was). But I would not expect them to ever give playable High Elves the way they are in other games/franchises because they literally do not want to have such elves in their world.
they don't need to be blood elves, as I said in many posts already they can simply be ren'dorei with dark blue purple or wahtever eyes but with high elf aesthetics.
Its even in my first post: Edit for clarity: No new race is needed just a switching option for the void elf race which they can utilize to veil themselves to look like regular high elves.
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The general idea behind purification is usually portrayed with a religious background. In wow you could say that purification could fall under any class that could heal because they all have a belief in some sort of higher power (the light, nature and elements). Arcane is all about power. It has never been about purification, it has been about altering and stealing (spell steal). Blood elves are to proud of a race to have anyone tamper with themselves. The sole reason they had blue eyes was because the sunwell was a arcane based. They drew upon the sunwell to feed their addictions. Again, the sunwell isn't arcane base anymore, it is holy based (go run the sunwell raid, spoilers, they throw a purified naaru into the well). Blood elves are high elves in every aspect except eyes and name.
If you want high elves, the horde is waiting for you.
Arcane could very well be used to purify the void, remove curse existed as an arcane spell. By that definition your argument that it can not be used to purify something is invalid.
Arcane could be used to remove Light, Void or anything else for that matter, it reorders existence to a small degree - that's how portals work by the way.
That aside, as I said already in this thread, I play a blood elf too apart from all the other races, the high elf fantasy needs to be taken a step further - into the alliance to be precise however.