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thousands of years ago, the exiled Highborne landed on the shores of Lordaeron and founded the enchanted kingdom of Quel'Thalas. These high elves, as they called themselves, created a fount of vast, magical energies within the heart of their land - the Sunwell. Over time, they grew dependant on the Sunwell's unstable energies - regardless of the bitter lessons they'd learned in ages past.
During the Third War, the villainous Prince Arthas invaded Quel'Thalas and reduced the once-mighty realm to rubble and ashes. His undead army decimated nearly ninety percent of the high elven population. In addition, he used the Sunwell's energies to resurrect Kel'thuzad - a powerful undead Lich - thereby fouling the Sunwell's mystical waters. The few elven survivors, realizing that they had been cut off from the source of their arcane power, grew increasingly volatile and desperate.
In the midst of the elves' darkest hour came Kael'thas Sunstrider - the last of Quel'Thalas' royal bloodline. Kael, as he was commonly known, knew that the remnant of his people would not long survive without the nourishing magics that once empowered them. Renaming his people blood elves, in honor of their fallen countrymen, he taught them how to tap into ambient mystical energies - even demonic energies - in order to sate their terrible thirst for magic. In search of a new destiny for his people, Kael'thas ventured to the remote world of Outland where he encountered the fallen night elf, Illidan. Under Illidan's tutelage, Kael and his blood elves have regained much of their former power.
Unfortunately, the blood elves' practice of embracing demonic energies resulted in them being shunned by their former comrades in the Alliance. Thus, the remaining blood elves on Azeroth look desperately to the Horde to help them reach Outland, where they can reunite with Kael'thas and achieve the golden destiny he promised them.
thousands of years ago, the exiled Highborne landed on the shores of Lordaeron and founded the enchanted kingdom of Quel'Thalas. These high elves, as they called themselves, created a fount of vast, magical energies within the heart of their land - the Sunwell. Over time, they grew dependant on the Sunwell's unstable energies - regardless of the bitter lessons they'd learned in ages past.
During the Third War, the villainous Prince Arthas invaded Quel'Thalas and reduced the once-mighty realm to rubble and ashes. His undead army decimated nearly ninety percent of the high elven population. In addition, he used the Sunwell's energies to resurrect Kel'thuzad - a powerful undead Lich - thereby fouling the Sunwell's mystical waters. The few elven survivors, realizing that they had been cut off from the source of their arcane power, grew increasingly volatile and desperate.
In the midst of the elves' darkest hour came Kael'thas Sunstrider - the last of Quel'Thalas' royal bloodline. Kael, as he was commonly known, knew that the remnant of his people would not long survive without the nourishing magics that once empowered them. Renaming his people blood elves, in honor of their fallen countrymen, he taught them how to tap into ambient mystical energies - even demonic energies - in order to sate their terrible thirst for magic. In search of a new destiny for his people, Kael'thas ventured to the remote world of Outland where he encountered the fallen night elf, Illidan. Under Illidan's tutelage, Kael and his blood elves have regained much of their former power.
Unfortunately, the blood elves' practice of embracing demonic energies resulted in them being shunned by their former comrades in the Alliance. Thus, the remaining blood elves on Azeroth look desperately to the Horde to help them reach Outland, where they can reunite with Kael'thas and achieve the golden destiny he promised them.
by Boomerang Weiner January 16, 2007
Get the Blood Elves mug.A behemoth of a man! Elverths are the largest humans known to mankind. The epitemy of 'Giant'. They are dark, cruel, and unjust...though secretly quite passive. Elverths are naturally drawn to other members of the male sex. They wear all black everything and enormous boots. Elverths have no loyalty, they are only interested in benefiting themselves. Elverths will one day enslave all humans named Andrew.
Look out Andrew, there is an Elverth behind that mountain!
Elverth throughly enjoys 'Man Love Thursdays'.
Elverth throughly enjoys 'Man Love Thursdays'.
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Some little elves that work in the depth of the bowels that use ancient Aztec methods of working your shit out, like using logs to slide it along.
by bumflute July 25, 2011
Get the Shit-Pipe Elves mug.A popular anime that takes place in a world of magic. In order to return home to Earth, the 3 hapless heroes - Junpei the martial artist, Ritsuko the gun-packing tomboy, and Airis the famous actress - along with a tank and an elf high priestess travel around the world looking for fragments of a spell that were placed on 5 random elven females. It falls upon them to strip every last female elf in the land to be able to return home!
Elven Females: "EEEK! It's those who hunt elves!"
Junpei: "Forgive me for stripping you!"
*Strips the lot of em*
Junpei: "Forgive me for stripping you!"
*Strips the lot of em*
by Pickleton July 31, 2006
Get the Those Who Hunt Elves mug.1) Elves in your ass.
2) Defined in the bible, Bill 3:16 pm verse 78907890 as the "vile creatures that dwell within thy sphincter and will give thy wiping hand no rest whatsoever". In Finnish literature they are described as the sole reason we must use toilet paper "or else they're gonna pull you into the pot".
2) Defined in the bible, Bill 3:16 pm verse 78907890 as the "vile creatures that dwell within thy sphincter and will give thy wiping hand no rest whatsoever". In Finnish literature they are described as the sole reason we must use toilet paper "or else they're gonna pull you into the pot".
by incipitsathanas April 7, 2008
Get the Butthole elves mug.In the WarCraft universe, the High Elves are a splinter group of "Highbourne" Night Elves, led by Dath'Remar Sunstrider, who were expelled from Kalimdor 10,000 years before the events in the computer games for using magic, which attracted the Burning Legion and nearly destroyed Azeroth. Due to their racial addiction to magic, these elves became shorter, their skin paled and their hair turned blonde or brown, as they journeyed farther from the world's traditional source of magic, the Well of Eternity on Mount Hyjal. After a journey across the Great Sea, they settled in a land they called Quel'Thalas, the High Realm, on a large peninsula in northern Lordaeron, where they had found a new source of magic in the enchanted Sunwell. Isolated from the human and dwarven kingdoms to the south, they founded the grand capital of Silvermoon and worked to copy the civilization that they had built on ancient Kalimdor before the demonic invasion.
Around 2,000 years before WC1, because of troubles in fighting the native trolls of the region, the High Elves appealed to the humans for aid and taught them magic. Many of the first men who were taught the arcane arts later founded the mystical city-state of Dalaran where they could practice their art in peace, and the magical prowess of their descendents soon rivalled that of the Elves.
During the events of WarCraft II, the High Elves were on the side of the Alliance against the Orcs; their disenfranchised rivals, the Trolls, naturally sided with the Horde, bent upon the conquest of Azeroth as pawns of the Burning Legion. The Elven Ranger Corps, fleets, magi, and weaponscrafting skills greatly aided the Alliance cause. Though the Horde was eventually defeated, the Elves suffered grievously. The ancient Runestone at the mystic island sanctuary of Caer Darrow was siezed by the Orcs and hewn into altars charged with demonic energy, in order to give magic tp the Orcs' dim-witted allies, the Ogres. The Horde later assaulted Quel'Thalas directly and burned many acres of the enchanted sylvan kingdom. Soon after the Horde's defeat during the events of Beyond the Dark Portal, the High Elves split from the Alliance, despite the sacrifice of many humans and dwarves to save much of the nucleus of the kingdom. The High Elves called their forces home and sealed off Quel'Thalas from the world with the enchanted Elfgates. However, many of their bretheren did not heed the call home and continued to serve the Alliance, living in Lordaeron or even the distant human kingdom of Stormwind.
During the events of WC3, the Undead Scourge, led by the damned Crown Prince Arthas Menethil of Lordaeron, came to Quel'Thalas with the intention of reviving the necromancer Kel'Thuzad, the founder of the Cult of the Damned and one of the Lich King's agents, in the mystical waters of the Sunwell. The High Elves, led by the Ranger General Sylvanas Windrunner, tried to stop the invasion best as possible, but with no avail. Silvermoon was captured, Kel'Thuzad revived into a fearsome Lich, and Windrunner herself transformed by Arthas into a banshee, another pawn of the Scourge and a slave to the Lich King's will — or so she was meant to be.
With the loss of Quel'Thalas, the elves of Lordaeron split into three new racial groups:
Many of the surviving High Elves, led by Prince Kael'thas Sunstrider, burned the woods of Quel'Thalas to give the Scourge as Pyhrric a victory as possible. With the Sunwell defiled, they embraced demonic magic to sate their addiction and became the Blood Elves, temporarily rejoining the Alliance out of necessity and in the hopes of enacting vengeance on the Scourge.
Along with Sylvanas Windrunner, many elves existed in undeath as the wrathful banshees, though some, like Sylvanas, were given back their corporeal forms. The zombified but sentient Sylvanas later rebelled from the Scourge during the events of the Frozen Throne and founded a faction of freethinking undead in and around the ruined kingdom of Lordaeron, calling themselves the Forsaken.
The high elves who were not in Lordaeron at the time of the kingdom's fall — those who had fled with Jaina Proudmoore to Kalimdor, or were elsewhere in the Eastern Kingdoms — rejoined the Alliance, as did some survivors of the undead invasion who did not approve of the Blood Elves.
Around 2,000 years before WC1, because of troubles in fighting the native trolls of the region, the High Elves appealed to the humans for aid and taught them magic. Many of the first men who were taught the arcane arts later founded the mystical city-state of Dalaran where they could practice their art in peace, and the magical prowess of their descendents soon rivalled that of the Elves.
During the events of WarCraft II, the High Elves were on the side of the Alliance against the Orcs; their disenfranchised rivals, the Trolls, naturally sided with the Horde, bent upon the conquest of Azeroth as pawns of the Burning Legion. The Elven Ranger Corps, fleets, magi, and weaponscrafting skills greatly aided the Alliance cause. Though the Horde was eventually defeated, the Elves suffered grievously. The ancient Runestone at the mystic island sanctuary of Caer Darrow was siezed by the Orcs and hewn into altars charged with demonic energy, in order to give magic tp the Orcs' dim-witted allies, the Ogres. The Horde later assaulted Quel'Thalas directly and burned many acres of the enchanted sylvan kingdom. Soon after the Horde's defeat during the events of Beyond the Dark Portal, the High Elves split from the Alliance, despite the sacrifice of many humans and dwarves to save much of the nucleus of the kingdom. The High Elves called their forces home and sealed off Quel'Thalas from the world with the enchanted Elfgates. However, many of their bretheren did not heed the call home and continued to serve the Alliance, living in Lordaeron or even the distant human kingdom of Stormwind.
During the events of WC3, the Undead Scourge, led by the damned Crown Prince Arthas Menethil of Lordaeron, came to Quel'Thalas with the intention of reviving the necromancer Kel'Thuzad, the founder of the Cult of the Damned and one of the Lich King's agents, in the mystical waters of the Sunwell. The High Elves, led by the Ranger General Sylvanas Windrunner, tried to stop the invasion best as possible, but with no avail. Silvermoon was captured, Kel'Thuzad revived into a fearsome Lich, and Windrunner herself transformed by Arthas into a banshee, another pawn of the Scourge and a slave to the Lich King's will — or so she was meant to be.
With the loss of Quel'Thalas, the elves of Lordaeron split into three new racial groups:
Many of the surviving High Elves, led by Prince Kael'thas Sunstrider, burned the woods of Quel'Thalas to give the Scourge as Pyhrric a victory as possible. With the Sunwell defiled, they embraced demonic magic to sate their addiction and became the Blood Elves, temporarily rejoining the Alliance out of necessity and in the hopes of enacting vengeance on the Scourge.
Along with Sylvanas Windrunner, many elves existed in undeath as the wrathful banshees, though some, like Sylvanas, were given back their corporeal forms. The zombified but sentient Sylvanas later rebelled from the Scourge during the events of the Frozen Throne and founded a faction of freethinking undead in and around the ruined kingdom of Lordaeron, calling themselves the Forsaken.
The high elves who were not in Lordaeron at the time of the kingdom's fall — those who had fled with Jaina Proudmoore to Kalimdor, or were elsewhere in the Eastern Kingdoms — rejoined the Alliance, as did some survivors of the undead invasion who did not approve of the Blood Elves.
You can't go to Quel'Thalas in World of Warcraft, at least not yet. There are still many High Elves — not to be confused with the Blood Elves — that can be seen: in Theramore, in Stormwind, and also at the Quel'Lithien and Quel'Danil Lodges.
by not a WC nerd March 27, 2005
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