Elves and timelines in roleplay-Elven history

So why the difference in appearance? Thousands of years ago, after the end of the War of the Ancients, the World Tree Nordrassil was created and blessed by the dragon Aspects to grant a couple of different things: access to the Emerald wow gold Dream and immortality for every elf who stood watch over it. That immortality is what caused the elves to have such huge lifespans. But not every elf, as it turned out, got to keep that lifespan. The highborne of Azshara's court, the kaldorei who used arcane magic, were forbidden to use it by Malfurion Stormrage -- and this infuriated them. They rebelled, and as a result, they were banished from the continent of Kalimdor, setting sail across the ocean and landing in the Eastern Kingdoms.

Because they were no longer near Nordrassil, these former night elves changed in a dramatically physical way. They shrank, their skin grew pale and pink, and they lost the immortality granted by Nordrassil. This is where the quel'dorei came from -- the high elves of the Eastern Kingdoms. After the destruction of the Sunwell, the quel'dorei split into the two types we see today: the blue-eyed high elves and the green-eyed blood elves. The word sin'dorei was not used as a racial name prior to the Sunwell's destruction.

Meanwhile, those night elves over on Kalimdor continued to thrive and flourish for thousands of years. We have very little recorded history of what went on during that time; the night elves were in general very secluded and kept wow gold mostly to themselves. It wasn't until the humans and orcs came to Kalimdor after the rise of the Scourge that the night elves really interacted with the other races of the world.

But that interaction was both a blessing and a curse. The Burning Legion had returned, and over the course of the Third War, the night elves found themselves allying with both the humans and the orcs to try and save Nordrassil from destruction. This wasn't to be, however; as Malfurion Stormrage discovered, the only way to truly get rid of Archimonde was to blow up the World Tree. Doing so devastated Hyjal and also had the immediate effect of removing the night elves' immortality.

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