Queldorei
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Pet Name: Queldorei
Owner: Faith
Theme / Type: Terror Braenon
Born: April 10, 2010
Gender: Male
Mood: Mad
Battle Portal Stats
Hit Points: 3 / 3
Strength: 2
Defense: 5
Speed: 1
Intellect: 2
Misticpower: 3
Battles Won: 0
Battles Lost: 0
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Books Read: None
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Long ago, one caste of night elf nobility rose to prominence and eventually became known as the Highborne. Their reckless use of magic in the royal palace of Zin-Azshari caught the attention of Sargeras, who easily corrupted them. Captivated by the powerful dark titan, the palace Highborne helped the Burning Legion invade Azeroth. Countless night elves and other creatures died during the resulting War of the Ancients.
Sentenced to exile, these Highborne were more than happy to journey over the sea to Lordaeron, where they hoped to establish a home of their own. Gradually the exiled Highborne developed striking differences from the night elves. Cut off from the new Well of Eternity, they diminished in height, and their skin lost its characteristic violet hue. In addition, the elves lost their resistance to injury and illness, and they became mortal. Many of the elves died from exposure or starvation during their long journey. In addition to these hardships, the elves were forced to flee the site of their first settlement, Tirisfal Glades, due to a mysterious evil influence that drove many of their number mad.
In spite of the hardship they had endured, the high elves remained determined to continue their spellcasting, for they had come to consider arcane power their birthright. Using a vial of sacred water stolen from the first Well of Eternity, they created a fount of mystical power at a convergence of powerful ley energies in Quel'Thalas. They named this fountain the Sunwell. Although it was weaker by far than the first Well of Eternity, the Sunwell's potent arcane magic fed and strengthened the high elves.
Almost immediately after the high elves founded Quel'Thalas, the trolls began to attack the elven settlements en masse. The stubborn elves, unwilling to give up their new land, fought hard and finally defeated the trolls.
Peace followed and lasted for several thousand years. Then a mighty army of forest trolls besieged Quel'Thalas. The trolls had regrouped, and they meant to obliterate the elven interlopers. The high elves were hopelessly outnumbered.
Driven to desperate measures, King Anasterian Sunstrider appealed to the human nation of Arathor. The high elves offered to teach select humans how to use magic if the humans would use their new powers to help defend Quel'Thalas. Arathor's monarch, King Thoradin, distrusted magic, but the high elves reminded him that if Quel'Thalas fell, the southlands would be the next area to fall before the trolls.
Thoradin reluctantly conceded that the high elves had a point. He agreed to their offer, and soon his armies had joined the war. As a result of the alliance between Arathor and Quel'Thalas, the wizard nation of Dalaran was formed, where humans and elves would study magic for years to come.
During the Third War, Prince Arthas Menethil and the Scourge laid waste to Quel'Thalas, wiping out most of its population and reducing large tracts of the mighty kingdom to ash in his quest to reach the Sunwell. Yet not all who fell before Arthas stayed dead: the merciless prince raised Quel'Thalas' foremost defender, Ranger-General Sylvanas Windrunner, into undeath against her will to serve the Scourge as a powerful, tormented banshee.
As the undead armies closed in on the Sunwell, a high elf named Dar'Khan Drathir aided Arthas by lowering the shields surrounding the Sunwell. In betraying the high elves, Dar'Khan hoped to gain the favor of the Lich King. However, the most immediate result of his treachery was an explosion that knocked him unconscious and scattered most of the Sunwell's powers.
The wizard Borel sensed the mystical energy being unleashed and succeeded in trapping a portion of it inside an avatar disguised as a young human girl, Anveena. Unaware of Borel's deed, Arthas then used the remaining energies of the Sunwell to reanimate the spirit of Kel'Thuzad in the form of a nightmarish lich. The Sunwell was left defiled and drained of all its magic.
King Anasterian was slain in battle. The few high elves to survive the Scourge's invasion quickly grew ill and apathetic. It became clear that they had become addicted to the Sunwell's arcane energies. Being constantly suffused in magic had fundamentally changed their race. Now that the source of their magic was gone, they were suffering acute pangs of withdrawal.
Prince Kael'thas returned home and rallied all the survivors he could find. He declared that these survivors would now bear a new name--the blood elves--in honor of their fallen people. The blood elves no longer consider themselves high elves, and they have different priorities and behaviors than their high elf kindred.
In consequence, there are so few high elves left on Azeroth today that they cannot be considered a race in anything other than the biological sense. High elves do not gather in any significant numbers, nor do they act as a coordinated whole. They are a very small group of individuals scattered all over the world. As such, they do not have common opinions or goals. Indeed, modern high elves cannot even truly be said to have a culture--only a past filled with glory and regret.
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