Originally Posted by
Tanaria
All of this is long version of what I was saying.
High Elves loved their new home, and they wanted to keep it in that exact way. What they did was unnatural and not part of nature's life cycle.
And the Farstriders use the land to spy on their enemies. It's how Sylvanas was able to shoot down Amani Trolls, who were chasing Alleria and Vereesa. Again, Sylvanas never had a love for nature - she just used it as a means to kill those who were attacking her sisters.
Quel'Thalas is a timelocked zone, locked until a time, where the Sin'dorei might lift the enchantment (unlikely), in an eternal spring. As lovely as it looks, as many have said that Eversong Woods and Silvermoon are the most beautiful places in Azeroth, it's still unnatural.
Farstriders know a little bit of natural magic, but it isn't groundbreaking. We've only seen the Sunfury Botanists, who were all killed, take on Druid-like abilities, but again - that was looking at the plants of the Botanica and wielding a combination of Nature, Arcane, Fel and Void magics.
And Quel'Thalas is created on the backbone of the kaldorei empire, but it is kaldorei no longer. The floating spires and large schools like the Falthrien Academy - they came with Quel'Thalas. Zin-Azshari, Suramar, Nar'thalas - they never had sanctums like the Quel'Thalas Academies - they were born with the changes that Dath'Remar and the Quel'dorei, wanted.
The summary is this:
Unlike the Night Elves, everything the High Elves did, related back to the Arcane. Thas'alah was one tree that was later connected to the arcane ley-lines of Quel'Thalas. Thas'dorah - created from a branch of Thas'alah was later bathed in the arcane Sunwell, where the rumors go that when Talanas and his descendants, Lireesa and Alleria, used the bow - arcane arrows fired after the Windrunners fired regular arrows. Ban'dinoriel, an arcane shield, helped generated by the arcane Sunwell, was connected to Thas'alah to help protect the land from the Legion.
Again - in my view, as much as I love the Sin'dorei - this angle for nature is very unnatural and not the same as how we see the night elves use nature and their connections to Druidism. It's not a "love" for nature. It's a "well this tree can help us - let's connect it to the arcane Sunwell and the arcane leylines." Thas'alah was not like Teldrassil or Nordrassil. (The Blue Dragons never giving a blessing for either trees.)
Just like the Sin'dorei - their Quel'dorei ancestors connected everything back to their Arcane Mastery. Which is fine, because the Arcane is the birthright for all Thalassians. It doesn't shock me that only one tree was used but it wasn't used for a natural purpose.