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Melpominee thought this was the Ricky Martin Fan Club Forum and wrote:
Pray tell, how can the eredar be an evolutionary offshoot of the eredar?Edit: I could be mistaken, but aren't blood elves the remnants of the Highborne? As I recall, those weren't the same as the rest of the night elves somehow.
Originally there were just the elves, Illidan, Furion, Aszhara... same species. The Highborne as they called themselves were the elves sided with Aszhara and working with the legion. The 'royalty' more or less.
Once the well of eternity was destroyed the continent was sundered, the elves that had sided with Furion against Aszhara were forced west as the maelstrom formed. They swore off magic and embraced druidic and prayer powers, receiving a blessing from the aspects to grant them eternal life to guard the world tree, turning them into the night elves we know now.
The elves remaining in the city as it sunk around them, those loyal to Aszhara, went down with the continent, Aszhara made a deal with the old gods who warped them and turned them into the Naga
The remaining elves that escaped fled east from the maelstrom and stayed the high elves we knew. Once their homeland was destroyed and they were forced out by the scourge they discovered they had an addiction to magic, magic they no longer had access to since they couldn't return to their homeland. So they turned to demonic magic to feed their hunger and called themselves the blood elves in rememberance of their fallen brethren to the scourge.
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Sakkra's the only gay eskimo:
Well, it works for Games Workshop.
Does that mean that Sargeras is a C'tan or something?
They were once Eredar but renamed when they broke from the Eredar who joined the Dark Titan.
This is their original forms before some were corrupted by the fel energies of the orc warlocks into the Broken and Lost Ones (the Draenei from Frozen Throne). Katrinity fucked around with this message on 05-10-2006 at 11:03 PM.
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Melpomineeing:
Must be another of Blizzard's contradictions in lore. The Highborne were distinguishable as separate prior to the first invasion of the Burning Legion...they brought the Burning Legion as Azshara's behest. At the time, night elves, Illidan at least, still used magic quite extensively. This is all according to Well of Eternity, which is supposedly in line with Warcraft lore.
No, the nice blueberry night elves we all know and love never, ever, ever used magic.
When they did, they weren't night elves, the first well of eternity had not been destroyed, and there was no world tree.
Note that there is a distinct difference in warcraft lore between MAGIC and things like druidism and shamanism.
Illidan is an exception, he was imprisoned for advocating the use of magic. Maradon! fucked around with this message on 05-10-2006 at 11:37 PM.
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Maradon! stumbled drunkenly to the keyboard and typed:
Illidan is an exception, he was imprisoned for advocating the use of magic.
Well, that and for creating the World Tree after stealing waters from the well before it was destroyed and seeding it at Hyjal, a 2nd well of eternity which the night elves viewed as an abomination and another potential gateway for the burning legion to re-enter the world
