"Blood Elves"

The History behind a New Class of inhabitant for Horde

by: Hidden Merchant

In the course of the new Blizzard upgrades you will now find a new race in the Horde region.

Blood Elves:

According to legend they are the remnants of a once proud and powerful people. A few thousand years have passed since the Exiled high borne Elves landed on the shores of Lordaeron,where they shortly founded the kingdom of Quel'Thalas.

The “High Elves” as their egos self proclaimed them, created a vast fountain of magical energy in the heart of their land which they named the Sunwell. They became completely dependent on their use of magical energy even though they knew of the unstable nature of the Sunwell even though they had learned hard lessons in ages past what tragedy's could present themselves. Even being used in the smallest scales could become completely unmanageable. They continued using the Sunwell to the point it became their greatest weakness.

When the vile Prince Arthas invaded Quel'Thalas during the Third War his army of the undead almost completely destroyed the High elves as a race. They took almost 90 % of the High Elf population and spilled their blood over the ground of the once proud and beautiful kingdom of Quel'Thalas.

Then to add insult to injury Prince Arthas used the Sunwell's energy to resurrect Kel'thuzad - a powerful undead Lich which ended up contaminating and fouling the Sunwell's mystical waters.

A small group of elven survivors, realizing now that they had been cut off from the Sunwell the magical source of their arcane power, they grew increasingly volatile and desperate to survive.

It is said that in the darkest hour of despair that, will be when the brightest light shall rise to meet the darkness, and so it was that in the midst of the elves' darkest hour came:Kael'thas Sunstrider.

He was the last of Quel'Thalas' royal bloodline. Kael, as he was commonly known, realised that the remaining people would be unable to survive without the powerful nourishing magics that once empowered them. He knew what he had to do to save his people.

In honor of their fallen countrymen he renamed his people “Blood Elves” and began teaching them to tap into the magic powers surrounding them in nature without having to build fountains. Even to the point of teaching them how to tap into the demonic energies available to quench their thirst for magical power.

Kael'thas ventured out in search of a new destiny for his people, his journey ending in the remote world of Outland where he meets the Fallen Night Elf, Illidan. Once under Illidan's tutelage, Kael and his remaining Blood Elves have regained much of their former power but their former glory is still absent.

Unfortunately, embracing demonic energies has a terrible effect on how other races view the Blood Elves which, resulted in  them being shunned by their former friends and comrades in the Alliance.

Now the remaining Blood Elves on Azeroth must look desperately to the Horde for aid in reaching Outland, where they can re-unite with Kael'thas their king and achieve the golden destiny he promised them.

This brings us to the beginning of new dangers, high adventures and new powers to find and behold.

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