The Night Elves Rebuilt
in time, after the two genocide events and all the bad luck, they have the groups they can use to rebuild the night elves as their own federation or faction - if we want to expand this concept further.
It would involve building up some new night elf groups and adding numbers:
New Groups:
- Restored Farondis: These guys get brought back - something to do with how they were cursed, but it was undone (ideas could include they were acutally phased into a pocket dimension created by the magical force and linked to it by an item Azshara posses, once this was discovered, and shattered, they were fully brought back into this plane. They formed a new faction of highborne
- Emerald Dream Night Elf Worgen: THe Nightmares encroaching into the waking world during Legion also opened the door for these worgen to be return. With the return of Goldrinn and the Scythe of Elune, more kept popping up all over Val'sharah, the Dreamwardens leading Arch Druid was able to use the scythe ot restore their sanity, they formed a new faction of druids
- Naz'dorei: Naga who regain their elven form back (with some sea modifications) and are able to shift between elf form and naga form (in water they auto transform into naga, and on mounts they auto transform into elf forms - at all other times they can hcoose which form to be in - their story something like Azshara's defeat in the Eternal Palace brought hope and realisation of her fallibility to many naga who had opposed her in secret or longed for na opening to escape (deliverance can come via Elune and the stars for freedom, or a great magical spell that restored them, forming a new night elf sub-race in Nazjatar which eventually rises. They become instrumental when we finally kill Azshara.
- Cenarians The half Night elf/Half stag forest people, who for the last 10k years have been part of the druid family, they are totally devoted to nature, unlike the priests or highborne and others, and while share half a body with the kaldorei, are not historically from them, but through Elune, are bonded witht hem - as such they form an intrinsic ethereal nature group - like the purest end of nature lovers for the druids.
- Redeemed Satyr: the Legion's defeat exposes a lot of satyr who like others had craved for freedom and a return to their lives, following the example from 2 satyr restored to night elves, many seek and call on the goddess for that. one day she answered, granting them a second chance but on condition, they must yuse their freedom to fight the demonic hordes they once were a part of, they get restored to Illidari like half night elf, half demon - and swell the ranks of the Illidari as a new faction within the illidari.
- Undead Black Rook Ravencrest Nelves: These are the elves following the events of Black Rook hold, once the deception of the legion was lifted, they vowed to rally together to save their beleaguered living kin, save kalimdor and restore the great losses of culture and civilizaiton the legions arrival caused. bolstered by night elven dks who join them from the Ebon blade these are a separate community of war and strategy minded night elves - they work with the sentinels, Moonguard and Demon hunters who are the military wings of the Order of elune, Highborne and Illidari.
- Defected Nightborne: Nightborne many of which were appalled at the war of thorns, and decided it was a hasty rush to join the horde given that would mean coming up against their kin who are the reason Suramar and the world was spared destruction from the legion, unwilling to start a civil war, they maneouver the ruling council of Suramar to recognise that not all nightborne would stand with the horde and it is their right to choose. With numbers so large and wishing to avoid a civil war, Suramar is declared neutral with some nightborne aligning themselves with the night elves and others with the blood elves - they decide that they will not be defined by the young alliance and horde, and their citizens are free to choose their allies. Those that work with the night elves and druids in time find the effects of the arcan'dor accelerated, and regain their kaldorei forms - they are distinct from normal night elves via their arcane runes and regal postures and hairstyles. Those who allied with the blood elves got invited to share in the light of the sunwell, this act had a strange effect of stalling the restoration to kaldorei - and as such those who ally with the horde have the nightborne appearance nad those who defected to the kaldorei, regained their appearnace
5 Orders in Total
- Elune - Moon Priests (and their sects), sentinels, Watchers, Wardens
- Arcane - shen'dralar, darnassian highborne, defected nightborne, Farondis, Moonguard
- Nature - Cenarion Circle, Dreamwardens, Druids of the claw, of the talon, of the branch, of the wild
- Fel - Illidari demon hunters, Fel Lord Casters, Satyr Nelfs (the Forsworn)
- Undead
Communities: Darnassians, Naz'dorei, Highborne, Druids
Re-Building Their Faction
THe aim of all of the above is providing depth, a chanceand quicker way night elves can have various different groups and peoples. It would be their form of nations, you can have both nations and orders.
The point is humans aren't the only ones that can be incredibly diverse, have different peoples, nations, factions as well as orders, the elves might be different.. and may never once more be the unified force that dominated the world, which might be why even with a world tree, well of eternity and Goddess and fel powers, they don't - because they aren't one nation - just a group of allied nations with their separate lives in a new world, slowly coming together and working together over time.