They first appeared in Warcraft 2, including the hero unit Alleria Windrunner. The High Elves are fair, pale-skinned, blue-eyed archers and mages straight from the pages of Tolkien, and they have a storied history in the Warcraft franchise. Now, Blizzard is taking a bold new stance: Fuck it, High Elves for everybody.īut some fans still want more. Thirteen years is a long time to be angry about an elf, but the rage finally reached a fever pitch during Battle for Azeroth. Elves in the Warcraft setting are like tofu - apply a new kind of magic to them, and they’re suddenly a whole new species from soaking those vibes up.īut fans have been mad about one specific elf situation for 13 years, ever since the launch of World of Warcraft’s first expansion, The Burning Crusade.
There are the Night Elves, Nightborne, Highborne, High Elves, Blood Elves, San’layn (they’re vampires), spider elves, Void Elves, and even a few half-elves. World of Warcraft takes place in a fantasy world filled with fae creatures, wise beasts, dwarves, orcs, trolls, elves.
