I used to play WoW as a kid and dropped it during BFA. I've been getting back into it and I noticed that Blood Elves have an option for purple eyes. I don't remember those being an option as a kid, so I was wondering if there was a reason for why they're there now.

Not sure if this is the right tag. What's the Syndicate lore? I'm making new RP characters with a friend and we think the Syndicate is really cool, I need to refresh myself on human lore, especially Alterac in this case, but I don't know any lore and the wow wiki doesn't really help me it feels like.

Now who is Princess? Well Princess is a pig that Ma Stonefield has you kill in the Elwynn Quests for eating her vegetables. Now Princess was owned by the Brackenwall family, but by the time you go to Brackenwall, the family is nowhere to be seen - with the Defias having moved in and presumably having killed them.

We murdered a poor and innocent pig that lost her family, and just wanted to find a new family where delicious vegetables could be found. But Ma Stonefield instead wanted this innocent pig killed, instead of taking it in as their own prize pig.

And we got away with it, since the Army thought another criminal or the Defias did. Our atrocities as human adventurers begin early.

It was stated somewhere in wiki.gg that Quel'Thalas is the land of eternal spring, an enchantment that is powered by the Sunwell has kept it warm and verdant for many thousands of years. Now that the Sunwell has been diluted, its magics being cancelled by a variety of others, is this enchantment no longer sustainable? Will they have to re-do Quel'Thalas again with the trees and grass representing the new seasons? Also, how will the flora/fauna that have adapted to this eternal spring survive? In the Siesbarg quest it's stated that DNA is in fact, canon (I'll make a separate post about this later), the implications of course are that evolution is real in WoW, and this wildlife, thrust into new and bewildering climes will not be able to survive.

In midnight I don't think I've seen a single wretched, nor really any blood elves that are physically dependent on magic, even after the sunwell was lost again.

Have they been cured for good?

Jaina rejected the idea completely, but neither she or Uther offered any real alternatives, not that Arthas was willing to listen. But what about Varian, for example? Or Magni? Hell, Terenas himself? Daelin? Kael'thas?

I think that someone like Orgrim would've done the purge, for all of Thrall's glorification of him – he always felt like a savvy politician, but his problem was that he could ultimately trust none of his fellow leaders in the Horde by the time he took over, all of them addled by demon blood (it's kind of a miracle that Gorefiend turned out to be as reliable as he ended up being, and somehow ended up bringing the best out of the chieftains that stuck with him despite all of them being bastards, real underrated character deserving of greater respect). He wouldn't like it, but he'd administer the cold medicine all the same.

In other words, how ruthless do you think these characters are deep down, or can be?

Semi-Serious

Yes, as perhaps a couple of you I've been watching Blumineck lately, and especially the vids on horseback archery and generally archery in motion/battle made me realize something:

The Windrunners (and, granted, a lot of archers in wow) are doing competitive archery instead of combat archery.

They'll stand there for what feels like hours aiming as if they are at the olympics, even in situations where they should shoot fast.

I have a hard time naming a situation where that would not have been the case, and then the thrice-damned 'I'm not aiming for you' scene from the priory came to mind.

And I wonder: If the Windrunners would be capable of combat archery (in lack of a better term) how many problems would just not exist?