Know Your Lore: Elven evolution

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5-04-2010 @ 8:17PM

ioncat said...

I argued this in a topic a couple days ago, but I'll go ahead and put my opinion up here again.

High Elves and Blood Elves do have a physical difference. Yes, it is very small. Yes, the source of that change ( the whole sunwell, fel magic thing) is gone. Yes, they first became 'Blood Elves' on political reasons alone.

That does not take away the fact that the two have a physical distinction.

Now I'm not trying to prove anyone wrong or disprove anyone, I'm approaching this from a scientific standpoint, and according to taxonomy, High Elves and Blood Elves are not the same. Blood Elves are, technically, a subspecies (sometimes called RACE) of High Elves. Those eyes set them apart. They make them different. Just as the Mag'har and the Durotar Orcs are different.

You might not want to look at it that way, and whatever floats your boat that's fine, that's just how biology breaks this down.

And just to put it out there

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