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Tuesday, 20 May 2014

The Queue: All will be revealed

Welcome back to The Queue, the daily Q&A column in which the WoW Insider team answers your questions about the World of Warcraft. I am a traveler in both time and space to be where I have been.

I'm telling you guys, seriously, there needs to be a Warlords of Draenor machinima set to Kashmir. Go read the lyrics if you don't believe me. Father of the four winds, fill my sails, across the sea of years - Someone get on this.

panicForce asks:
To what degree to high elves still exist?

a handful in the world, no more than a dozen.
none of them anywhere, everyone's a blood elf.
open your damn eyes, Force. there are tons.

There are very, very few high elves left. Conservative estimates are that roughly 1 out of 10 high elves survived the Scourge invasion of Quel'Thalas and the destruction of the Sunwell. Of those survivors (basically 1/10th of their numbers before Arthas) only 1 in 10 of those decided to forgo racial solidarity and remained a high elf. Most of those were the ones in the Allerian Stronghold before the reopening of the Dark Portal by Kazzak (who didn't even know about the Sunwell's destruction and the creation of the blood elves) or scattered among institutions like the Kirin Tor in Dalaran, lodges like Quel'Danil Lodge, and a small population in Theramore that died when the Horde bombed the city.

It's fair to say that none of your options are accurate - there's probably at least a few hundred of them left. But that's basically it. It's strange to count blood elves and high elves as a different race - it's not been all that long since Kael declared them the Sin'dorei. But if you do, then high elves are a race to which extinction is practically assured.

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