OnlyTrashLivesHereNow

Seth doodles again because he's one of my comfort zones 💙 And an extra dumb sketch of Camlin being... Camlin. When they first meet. He's been around children more often than an Astartes is supposed to. (ᵕ • ᴗ •)

And now what can only be described as,

She’s working at the hospital since Rhona came to town,

Hide away, hide away, Miss Rhona’s come to town,

Hide away, hide away, she’s come to take us down.

Miss Rhona’s at the doorstep, I’ll keep 6 feet away,

But Grandma needs the paper, I’ll take her some today,

Hide away, hide away, Miss Rhona’s come to stay,

Hide away, hide away, we can’t come out to play.

But Grandma needs the paper, I’ll take her some today,

And here’s a note from Rhona, she wanted me to say,

Hide away, hide away, keep 6 feet away,

[Image ID: Tumblr user @neanderthyall says in the notes, “I thought that 6 feet was kind of a double meaning. Like six feet away to stop the spread, but when people die they’re six feet underground, and its six feet of the dirt that keeps you apart. Like ‘Hide away, hide away, even though it hurts Hide away, hide away, or the six feet will be dirt’.” End ID.]

This isn’t to try and tell you what to do and what not to do; this is for people who want more lore accurate characters and don’t know where to start.

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History

Evolution (Year -13,500): The blood elves originate from a upper class of night elves known as the Highborne, or high elves. The high elf queen Azshara attempted to summon Sargeras through the Well of Eternity (Year -10,000), resulting in the single continent splitting into the four we know today, known as the Sundering. After this, the night elves forbade any use of arcane magic, fearing a second Sundering. Most of those who refused to cease this were high elves, thus leading to their banishment night elven lands. After the Scourge invasion of Quel’Thalas (Year -20), the high elves chose to take the name “blood elf” to honour the dead. From the blood elves come an assortment of sub-races: Wretched are blood elves who have been overcome by magical addiction, Felblood are those corrupted by The Burning Legion, San’layn are blood elves risen in Northrend to serve the Scourge, and lastly came a faction of their people who delved into the Void, known as Void elves, but were subsequently banished for their actions.

Exile (Year -7,300): Many high elves refused to give up their use of arcane magic, seeing it as their birthright. They were then banished from night elven lands, guided by Dath'Remar Sunstrider. Their kingdom of Quel’Thalas is founded.

Exile ends: (Year -6,800): The construction of Silvermoon City is completed. Somewhere between the exile and this year, a font of power, The Sunwell, is created from a vial of stolen Well of Eternity water.

Joining the Alliance (Year 3): following the First War, the high elves ally themselves with the newly formed Alliance of Lordaeron.

The fall of Quel’Thalas (Year 20): during the Third War, a Scourge invasion headed by newly-made death knight Arthas Menethil assaults the city to use the Sunwell tor resurrect Kel’thuzad. Anasterian Sunstrider, great-grandson to Dath’Remar, and Ranger-General Sylvanas Windrunner are most notably among those to fall, the latter to be raised as a banshee. The high elves who survived rename themselves blood elves in honour of the deceased and are led by their Prince Kael’thas, son of Anasterian.

Leaving the Alliance (Year 22): in the hopes of finding a new source of power after the loss of the Sunwell, the Blood elves align themselves with Illidan Stormrage and the naga and venture into Outland.

The fall of Kael’thas: (Year 26): by this year, the Outland blood elves have captured the old naaru fortress, Tempest Keep, and send naaru M’uru back to Quel’Thalas. They would later use his spark to reignite the Sunwell. With the aid of Sylvanas, now freed from the undead Scourge, Azerothian blood elves are accepted into the Horde. Kael’thas allies himself with The Burning Legion and is killed in Tempest Keep. After himself being resurrected, Kael’thas retreats to Silvermoon to try and summon Kil’jaeden into Azeroth. He is defeated finally.

Physical traits

Life expectancy: Blood elves can live up to thousands of years, appearing to age up to a certain point before staying physically the same at adulthood.

Height: blood elves are shorter than other elf races with females being 5 foot on average and males being around 5.5.

Eye colour: Usually, blood elves have green eyes due to exposure to fel, however after the cleansing of the Sunwell they’ve also been known to possess golden ones.

Cosmetics: Unlike night elves, blood elves, along with their high elf counterparts, do not possess facial markings of a rite of passage.

Personality traits

Royals: Stereotypically, blood elves are known to be a proud and potentially arrogant people, but this may derive from their culture of respecting their highborne heritage and elevated status within past elven societies. Their regal outlook most likely come from a need to honour their deceased kin.

Dependency: Due to their reliance on arcane magics, reports of addiction are rife within Blood elf society. A constant need for this power may result in withdrawals, causing irritability and snappy nature.

Other races: Blood elves seem to integrate well into the Horde, though some view the lifestyle of creatures like orcs or trolls as primitive and dirty due to its drastic contrast to their luxurious habits. They’ve been known to outright refuse services to trolls. The Forsaken relations are complex: some are still wary due to the invasion of Silvermoon while others recognise Sylvanas’ input while attempting to gain membership on their behalf for the Horde. On the other hand, the bitter grudge between night elves and blood elves continue: night elves regarding them with suspicion or even hostility and blood elves viewing their Kalimdor cousins as savages.

Other creatures: the favoured mount of the blood elves are hawkstriders due to their speed and ability to blend in with the woods of Eversong, as well as dragonhawks. Mana wyrms once served as guardians of crystals and arcane wards within Quel’Thalas, but since the Scourge invasion they’d become maddened and blood elves have even been seen to feed upon them.

Culture

Languages: Blood elves speak Thalassian, a derivative of Darnassian. They also speak Orcish.

Government: the oldest form of blood elf rule was a monarchy, started with Deth’Ramar Sunstrider who led the high elves throughout their exile. His great-grandson Anasterian died in the Silvermoon invasion by the Scourge and his son Kael’thas refused to take up his crown, saying that his father deserved to the last king of Silvermoon, prefering to call himself “Lord”. When Kael’thas led a faction of his people to Outland, Lor’themar Theron, once second-in-command to Sylvanas, became Regent Lord in his absence and continued to rule as the sole leader after his demise to this very day. 

Military: One of the oldest military organisations is the Farstriders, a group of rangers led by Halduron Brightwing after succeeding Sylvanas, forming officially in Year -500 but with members’ roots going back to the Troll Wars in -2,800. A more recent addition to blood elf ranks are the Blood Knights, led by Lady Liadrin. Once members of the Royal Guard, they renounced the Light believing it to have failed them during the Scourge invasion. However, later on they vowed to aid A’dal following the corruption of Kael’thas and re-embraced it. 

Religion: In stark contrast to their night elf cousins, the blood elves opt to worship the sun rather than the moon. They had a specific path of the Light prior to the Third War that led them to be disenchanted with the force. However, after Kael’thas used M’uru’s power to charge a new Sunwell’s power, those such as Liadrin feel the need to serve and worship the Light to atone for their sins. 

Traditions

It occurs in one of the Caverns of Time dungeons, Well of Eternity, where you go back to the first demon invasion and fight with Illidan and later Tyrande to right the past or whatever.  Tyrande helps you on the final boss, then Malfurion, who’s done dick all, shows up at the end and replies to Tyrande saying “Malfurion-!” with “HUSH Tyrande.  Where is Illidan?”

 It’s a single line in the game at the end of a dungeon, why does it matter?  Well, there were articles written about it, Blizzard had to change a boat name because of it, at least one guild is named after it. It’s solidly achieved meme status in the community.  Collapsed-vacuum skulled dudebros HUEHUEHEU about it because a woman (and significant other) is getting told to shut up. Everyone else is like wow, I guess Malfurion is an asshole, or, he’s not supposed to be an asshole, and Blizz is just stupid or sexist and doesn’t realize how bad it sounds.  

Welp, now that I am cursed with the knowledge of the awful but endearing WOTA books from which this scene is taken word for word from, I feel like I should shed some light on what must have actually occurred to make that dungeon performance the way it is.  Especially because, in all my googling, I see people making jokes about the line, I see people complain about it and how horrible Malfurion is, there’s people complaining that people would complain about it….but I could not find anyone point out the fact that IT’S ACTUALLY COMPLETELY WRONG AND NOT WHAT HAPPENS IN THE BOOK.  

I’m reminded of this old gem:

So, here’s the scene:  The Sundering had just begun, the Well is starting to go apeshit.  The following scene is Azshara making her deal with N’zoth, so yeah.  Tyrande and Ilidan are trying to make their way out of the city, as they are very close to the well.  Malfurion shows up on Ysera to get them out.  Malfurion has not seen either of them in person since the previous book, when Tyrande was captured and he got all guilty and depressed.  Anyway, here you go, slightly edited to remove exposition Knaak is inexplicably putting in at the end of the book.  I have provided some visuals.

So.  Just in case someone wants to argue that it’s still him telling her to shut up, let me also say that, this author uses “Hush” a lot.  He never uses “Shh”, or you know.. describes what doesn’t need to be voiced (lol).  I don’t want to subject yall to more Knaakwardness than I need too, but it’s clear this is meant to be comforting and kind based on the rest of his writing.  In fact, an example is when the reverse situation occurs in the previous book, after Malf gets punched in the brain by Archimonde:

Like, she’s actually being sweet to him in this scene. She is not telling him to STFU.  

But as you might imagine…… with no context, and if you’d never read any of the books and JUST read what was in quotation marks…. you could easily think uh I guess he’s telling her to be quiet.  So, this was a case of whatever game “”“”writer”””” was directing the recording session definitely had not read the books, didn’t know or care what the context was, and must have just thought it was a given Malfurion would talk to Tyrande like that.

And you MIGHT also think that all the stuff Illidan is saying in this dungeon is just supposed to just be cool and edgy, and NOT being said by a lil whiny shit who’s been being a total tool to Tyrande throughout this escape and blaming all their problems on Malfurion.  As a nice little bit of final irony, a lot of responses to Well of Eternity Malfurion is “See!  Shoulda picked Illidan!”, while, at one point in the book, Illidan is LITERALLY silences Tyrande with magic because he gets annoyed with her.    

What I’m trying to say is…. the Well of Eternity dungeon was ghost directed by Illidan.

But I am also saying the dungeon is one hilarious, blatant example of someone just writing down out of context lines and devs not knowing lore and characters or giving a shit.