Night Elf (Race)
| Night Elf | |
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| Capital | Darnassus |
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| Faction | Alliance |
| Leader | Tyrande Whisperwind |
| Racial Traits | Active
Shadowmeld Elune's Light Passive Quickness Wisp Spirit |
Overview
[edit | edit source]Night elves — the kaldorei, "children of the stars" — trace their origin to dark trolls who settled beside the Well of Eternity roughly fifteen thousand years ago; prolonged exposure to its energies transformed them into a tall, violet-skinned, near-immortal people. Under Queen Azshara, the kaldorei built a glittering empire centered on Zin-Azshari, wielding arcane magic on a scale unmatched before or since.
That empire ended in the War of the Ancients, when Azshara and her Highborne followers opened a portal for the Burning Legion. Heroes Malfurion Stormrage, Tyrande Whisperwind, and Illidan Stormrage led the resistance, and the Well of Eternity's eventual implosion — the Great Sundering — shattered the old world into the continents known today and transformed Azshara's Highborne into the naga. In the long isolation that followed, most surviving night elves renounced arcane magic for druidism and the worship of the moon goddess Elune, standing eternal watch over the World Tree, Nordrassil.
The kaldorei ended millennia of isolation during the Third War, allying with the fledgling Alliance to help repel the Burning Legion at Mount Hyjal, at the cost of Nordrassil itself. Their second World Tree, Teldrassil, was later burned by Sylvanas Windrunner's Horde during the Fourth War, killing untold thousands of night elves; the kaldorei have since rebuilt at Bel'ameth beneath the World Tree Amirdrassil on the Dragon Isles, under the joint leadership of Tyrande Whisperwind and Malfurion Stormrage.
Night elf society still reveres nature, Elune, and the long memory that comes with near-immortality; wisdom and self-sufficiency are prized above ambition, though the race has grown steadily more engaged with the wider world through its Alliance membership.
Starting Zone
[edit | edit source]Teldrassil
Playable Classes
[edit | edit source]Druid, Hunter, Priest, Rogue, Warrior
Racial Traits
[edit | edit source]- Shadowmeld – Gain Stealth while immobile
- Elune's Light – Increases Critical chance by 10% for 15 sec
- Quickness(Passive) – 1% increased Dodge chance and 2% increased run speed
- Wisp Spirit(Passive) – 75% increased run speed while dead
Notable Leaders
[edit | edit source]Tyrande Whisperwind
Sources
[edit | edit source]- https://warcraft.wiki.gg/wiki/Night_elf
- https://www.wowhead.com/race=4/night-elf
- https://news.blizzard.com/en-us/article/24304075/create-the-hero-you-want-to-be-in-world-of-warcraft-forever (Blizzard, WoW Forever: playable classes and racial traits)
- https://www.warcrafttavern.com/forever/guides/races/ (unverified, WoW Forever: starting zone, capital and leader)