Is it just me, or did blizz just straight up rip off the dark eldar while writing blood elves? >living life of decadence in an empire far removed from the rest of civilization >get genocided by forces led by demons from an alternate dimension >survivors find out they are now horribly addicted and must feed on something non-standard in order to live >continue living lives of decadence while living like parasites and extracting their nourishment from the life of living beings >they also have cousins who were not similarly affected and want nothing to do with them anymore
really, the only major differences are that the elves fall wasn't their own fault and that they feed on arcane magic rather than pain.
Asher Myers
Well, if you're willing to ignore any inconsistencies in your headcanon, you can convince yourself that any type of generic elves are a rip-off of any other type of generic elves.
Aiden Jenkins
>Blizzard >ripping off GW
I think you'll find it' the other way around, kid.
Isaiah Davis
>inconsistencies such as?
Wyatt Hill
>implying DarkEldar wasn't copied from Drow.
>>get genocided by forces led by demons from an alternate dimension Arthas and Ner'Zhul weren't daemons >>survivors find out they are now horribly addicted and must feed on something non-standard in order to live >>continue living lives of decadence while living like parasites and extracting their nourishment from the life of living beings Here is few problems. 1) unlike DE blood elves path required hard discipline to keep hunger under control. 2)blood elves were much more creative in founding ways to feed their 3)blood elves have a spine and ultranationalists
Colton Rogers
>Arthas and ner'zhul weren't demons no, but they were, at the time, bitches of the burning legion, who are.
Nolan Morales
Warcraft orcs are deamons from another dimension kind of
Nolan Mitchell
>implying dark eldar aren't just the Melniboneans Both flavors of Warhammer steal so much from Moorcock.
Camden Watson
Except well Blood elves kind oof better than all Warhammer elves (and space cousins) and ealfs
Blake Barnes
Nope. >living life of decadence While High Elves weren't very religious cult of Light still have strong influnce in society. >now horribly addicted They were addicted long before. >>continue living lives of decadence Totally opposite. DE cares only about their pleasure and escaping their doom, while BE have "Restoration" -fetish and literally possessed by Phoenix symbolism I wonder will we see the same motives in AoS highborn (of course if GW will give them Battletome or large presence, which I doubt) or they will be permadying race
Michael Gomez
Could someone make this into a copypasta? I suspect that it would be rather entertaining.
Jason Phillips
>Could someone make this into a copypasta? YOu mean?
Jackson Martin
>extracting their nourishment from the life of living beings Stopped being a thing during the same expansion they were introduced in.
John Foster
Didn't Blizzard flatout rip THAT shit off too with Arthas? At least the idea of a hedonistic and crumbling society isn't exactly novel.
Easton Diaz
blood elves exist because night elf tiddies were too damn small
Luis Rogers
based elves catering to every sexual preference
Leo Garcia
You'd think the motherly in-tune-with-nature druids and bestiality elves would be more stacked, desu
John Baker
Nah, tits are clearly mana reserves. Masters of the arcane need large mana reserves.
Angel Watson
>>get genocided by forces led by demons from an alternate dimension Technically that force was lead by an undead human. You could make that case that Gul'dan and Ner'Zhul are extraplanar but they didn't actually do anything except make Arthas go there.
>>survivors find out they are now horribly addicted and must feed on something non-standard in order to live They were addicted for literally thousands of years. It just wasn't a problem because they sat on a well of their vice of choice. It's not even so much an addiction as it is a biological need.
>>continue living lives of decadence while living like parasites and extracting their nourishment from the life of living beings They haven't drawn magic from living beings since TBC (five years ago?). Besides that their primary source of sustenance was still from captured demons and one pseudo-god in the form of M'uru. It's also not particularly decadent when a fair portion of your population can literally just magic food out of thin air.
>>they also have cousins who were not similarly affected and want nothing to do with them anymore Because those people weren't desperate enough to drink demon juice and had enough arcane energy to feed off of to keep from becoming Urchins (arcane withdrawl is a very real, very dangerous thing for Blood/High elves).
Luke Lee
Not to mention M'uru willingly let the blood knights suck the light out of him, even if the blood elves didn't know it at the time.
Angel Watson
Blood Elves, Dark Eldar, Drow, even the cannibal pixies from Fairy Meat, all of them are descendants of the original concept of Unseelie Fey. They're hedonists, slaves to their desires either literally or metaphorically, and they're willing to harm innocents and one another either to get their 'fix' or simply for love of the Wyld Hunt.
Justin Torres
>>continue living lives of decadence while living like parasites and extracting their nourishment from the life of living beings What the fuck do you think meat is you fucking vegan. All warcraft elves are carnivorous anyway, they even have fangs.
>>they also have cousins who were not similarly affected and want nothing to do with them anymore High Elves are similarly affected and the only reason the main ones survived was through living in Dalaran or stealing ancient Draenei artefacts
Oliver Taylor
They were already addicted to magic. They were crack addicts way before Arthas. They just had a supplier that kept them stated. Arthas just killed the supplier, and they were recommended a new supplier.
Just they were hitting off a purer supply. Fel energy is like difference between getting it off the street & getting it from the source. High Elves are living on magical wellfare.
Benjamin Miller
Pretty sure kiljaeden is a big ass demon, his forces were the ones that fucked silver moon while trying to summon him
Brandon Davis
>he doesn't play legion Night elves are stacked! STACKED!
Ayden Brown
5 years since tbc expansion, but in game it's been like 25 years since tbc. Jaina was around 19 when Arthas rekt stratholm and killed sylvanas, she's like 45-50 now (and officially milf status)
Aiden Diaz
I think he was mostly referring to night elves being the ones who hate them now. There's barely any high elves left in azeroth. And even before they took in fel energy the night elves were stuck up cunts who dislike everything outside their precious trees
Asher Collins
Bikini-elf sucking off a magical flying penis snake doesn't seem very SFW.
Robert Brooks
I did say "were"
Joseph Wilson
That and the first thing night elves do when building a settlement is literally set up a font of mana (a nightwell), which uses water from the original biggest well.
They're massive hypocrites about the mana thing AND demean themselves into being merely sexy human sidekicks.
