History Characters / WarcraftTheAllianceQuelThalas

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Their hair comes in various shades of blue and purple, yet some of them are able to retain their original hair color. See PowerDyesYourHair above.

* WitchSpecies: As descendants of the Highborne formerly empowered with the Sunwell, both high elves and void elves are naturally attuned with magic. Void elves even get a bonus to spellcasting.

** The Void Elves joining the equation makes this even more concerning, as in Telogrus Rift you can observe both High and Blood Elves preparing to undergo the ritual to leave them void-touched, meaning that the High Elves are losing even more of their population to the new race that is neither High nor Blood Elves. This isn't helped by the Ren'dorei also basically representing the ''Thalassian dissident movement'', so some of those elves are probably joining more out of a sense that they have to in order to express their beliefs and oppose Lor'Themar Theron rule than anything.

* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Most void elves have dark hair, and all of them have unnaturally pale skin. Originally Alleria was the only one able to keep her original form at will, however by the time of the ''Shadowlands'', some of the other void elves have learned to retain their original appearances, albeit to varying degrees.

* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Most void elves have dark hair, and all of them have unnaturally pale skin. However, by the time of the ''Shadowlands'', some of them are able to retain their original appearances, similar to Alleria.

* ItsAllMyFault: So much is comes back to her failures:

* BadassNormal: She doesn't have crazy void powers, she isn't an undead banshee queen. She's just an elf who's really, ''really'' good with a bow. Though she does use some arcane magic in her attacks, which may be a case of GameplayAndStorySegregation, though it is noted that she did need Rhonin's help to get over her own arcane addition.

* NotSoDifferent: See the UndyingLoyalty entry.

* {{Hypocrite}}[=/=]NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler:She worries about the inevitable meeting between herself and Sylvanas, and questions if she is even still her sister or a "Light-forsaken monster". To her credit, she does admit that she isn't so different herself, what with her being the first void elf and all]].

* NotSoDifferent: Alleria recalls how she is cursed just like Sylvanas, the only difference is ''[[YouCantFightFate she chooses to take upon this curse by herself]]'' whereas Sylvanas ''[[FateWorseThanDeath have it forced upon her]]''. Also,much like Sylvanas, she is a Windrunner who is leading a group of cursed outcasts (the Void Elves) while her sister is leading another (the Forsaken).

* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Most void elves have dark hair, and all of them have unnaturally pale skin. However, by the time of the ''Shadowlands'', some of them are able to retain their original appearances, similarly to Alleria.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Their hair comes in various shades of blue and purple.

* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Most void elves have dark hair, and all of them have unnaturally pale skin. However, by the time of the ''Shadowlands'', some of them are able to retain their original skin colors, similarly to Alleria.

* UndyingLoyalty: {{Zigzagged}}. Per WordOfGod, most remaining high elves feel this way about the Alliance, choosing to remain with their allies over their kingdom. In contrast, the high elves of the past (who'd become the [[Characters/WarcraftTheHordeQuelThalas blood elves]]) are loyal to their own kingdom above all else. Yet, every major high elf character has shown only nominal loyalty to the Alliance - Anasterian was as [[FairWeatherFriend fair-weather]] an ally as one can get, blaming the humans for his people's problems and leaving the Alliance the first chance he got; Alleria considered the Alliance as an institution little more than a [[{{Revenge}} vehicle for revenge]] to better avenge Quel'Thalas, and her entire motivation for crossing the Dark Portal was to keep her own homeland and people safe (Until she returned to lead the Void Elves); and Vereesa... who very nearly [[DefectingForLove defected to the Horde]] in ''War Crimes'' because she wanted to be with her sister.

** Elisande calls out the High Elves' attempts at taking a moral high road and the status as a "race". She lets them know that their willingness to intermingle with other races is destroying their identity as a sub-species and eventually they'll be no more. Given that the most well known High Elves - the Windrunner sisters - all have human husbands/lovers and the High Elves lack a proper racial capital, she appears to be [[JerkassHasAPoint on to something]].

* IShouldHaveDoneThisYearsAgo: [[spoiler:When she cornered Sylvanas alongisde Anduin during the Battle for Lordaeron, Alleria regretted not to have killed her sister the last time they met]].

* {{Irony}}: She doesn't like orcs, and yet [[spoiler:her sister briefly ended up becoming their warchief]].
* LadyOfWar: The only female unit in Warcraft II, and its expansion.

* {{Hypocrite}}: She only views the Horde as "Honorless Savages & Monsters" but Sylvanas reminds her that she is willing to abandon her children to join said Horde she constantly puts down.

** Because she got cold feet during her assassination attempt on Garrosh in "War Crimes", he escaped causing the events of "Warlords" & "Legion" to play out.

** She is finally confronted for this in the "Sisters" short-story when Sylvanas reminds Vareesa that not only was SHE was the mastermind of the plan but she also the one who reached out to Sylvanas to help her in a scheme to murder Garrosh; and had she stuck to HER plan, the events of "Warlords" & "Legion" would never have happened and thus all the lives lost are her fault.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:In ''War Crimes'' she decides at the last moment not to poison Garrosh's food. Had she done that, she would have prevented the events of ''Warlords of Draenor'' and ''Legion'']].

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: On the receiving end from Sylvanas when she learns Vareesa told Alleria a doctored up story about their plot in "War Crimes". It's so effective, Vareesa admits she is wrong and isn't brave enough to look at her faults but accepts her unreliable narration has driven her sisters to become enemies.

* SatelliteCharacter: She is based around Rhonin. In the novels she's working alongside him, then falls in love with him, marries him and bears his children. Except for a line in the Alliance's Quel'Delar questline, Veressa does nothing in the game until partway through Mists of Pandaria where she helps co-ordinate the Alliance forces on the Isle of Thunder. She's all for Purging the Sunreavers and it's strongly implied that her zeal came from the desire to avenge Rhonin's death due to the Horde's actions; it's also implied he influenced her views regarding tradition. When Veressa plans to join Sylvanas she only stops because she doesn't want to abandon her sons or stick them in the loveless Undercity); the children who Rhonin fathered. Even after his death she's still based around him. This thankfully got a little better since ''War Crimes'' onward.

* UnreliableNarrator: [[spoiler:When she reunites with Alleria on Argus, she had the displeasure of revealing that Sylvanas is a) undead, b) Warchief of the Horde, and c) their vast majority of their people are calling themselves blood elves and are also part of the Horde. We aren't told exactly what Vereesa told Alleria, but it was in no doubt told in an Alliance bias]]. She also tells her side of the "War Crimes" story to Alleria which makes her out to be a victim and completely blameless.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Clare Corbett (English), Veronika Sarkisov (Russian)

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Courtneay Taylor (English), Tatyana Shitov (Russian)

'''Other factions:''' [[Characters/WarcraftTheHordeOldHorde The Old Horde/Iron Horde]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheScourge The Scourge]] | [[Characters/WarcraftSylvanasAndFollowers Sylvanas and her followers]] | [[Characters/WarcraftKnightsOfTheEbonBlade Knights of the Ebon Blade]] | [[Characters/WarcraftIllidanAndFollowers Illidan and his followers]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheHordeGarroshsHorde Garrosh's Horde]] | [[Characters/WarcraftPandaria Pandaria]] | [[Characters/WarcraftOthers Other mortals]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheOldGods The Void (The Old Gods)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheLight The Light]] | [[Characters/WarcraftEternals Eternals]] | [[Characters/WarcraftShadowlands Shadowlands (Death)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTitans The Titans (Arcane)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheBurningLegion The Burning Legion (Fel)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheDragonflights The Dragonflights]] | [[Characters/WarcraftWildGods Wild Gods]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheArtifactWeapons The Artifact Weapons]]\\

* BreakHisHeartToSaveHim: After death of her brother, Lirath, Alleria does this to Turalyon for a time. Many years later it is implied that she is starting to grow distant from Turalyon again, but this time because of her new [[BlackMagic powers]].

* {{Irony}}: She doesn't like orcs, and yet [[spoiler:her sister is now their warchief]].

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* ItsAllMyFault: So much is comes back to her failures

!!!'''Class''' Hunter
!!!'''Race''' High Elf

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[[caption-width-right:350:''[[MemeticMutation ♫ Arise, ye victims of oppression;]] [[DirtyCommunists let the goblins fear your might! ♫]]'']]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Elisande gives all Elven races one but her speech to the High Elves was particularly brutal

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[[caption-width-right:268:So that's where she has been all along!]]

A high elven ranger captain of Quel'thalas, eldest of the Windrunner sisters, and an early volunteer to help the Alliance against the Horde in the Second War, even before the high elves formally chose to join the war. During the war the elven homeland was almost burned to the ground by the orcs and her younger brother killed, leading her to become obsessed with revenge and fixated on exterminating the orcs. She relished the chance to join the Alliance Expedition to Draenor and fight the orcs further, and once there, with the aid of Turalyon and Khadgar, eventually gave up on her genocidal quest. While she doesn't appear in ''The Burning Crusade'', her son with Turalyon, Arator the Redeemer, does. Alleria returns in ''Legion'', having been fighting the Legion on Argus with Turalyon and the Army of the Light, and afterwards returns to the Alliance, rescuing and recruiting Umbric's sect of Void users.

* {{Hypocrite}}[=/=]NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler:She worries about the inevitable meeting between herself and Sylvanas, and questions if she is even still her sister or a "Light-forsaken monster". To her credit, she does admit that she isn't so different herself, what with her being the first void elf and all.]]

* IShouldHaveDoneThisYearsAgo: [[spoiler:When she cornered Sylvanas alongisde Anduin during the Battle for Lordaeron, Alleria regretted not to have killed her sister the last time they met.]]

* {{Irony}}: She doesn't like orcs, and yet [[spoiler: her sister is now their warchief.]]

* UnwittingPawn: Heavily implied to be turning into this in ''Legion'' for [[spoiler: the Void Lords, given her increasing forays into shadow magic. While Locus-Walker does teach her control, Alleria clearly struggles at points. According to Xal'atath, it is nearly complete, [[UnreliableNarrator assuming Xal'atath itself isn't lying]].]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Is this during the hunt for Sylvanas in ''Shadows Rising'' due to interrogating others by invading their minds with the void.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: In ''War Crimes'' she decides at the last moment not to poison Garrosh's food. Had she done that, she would have prevented the events of ''Warlords of Draenor'' and ''Legion''.]]

* UnreliableNarrator: [[spoiler: When she reunites with Alleria on Argus, she had the displeasure of revealing that Sylvanas is a) undead, b) Warchief of the Horde, and c) their vast majority of their people are calling themselves blood elves and are also part of the Horde. We aren't told exactly what Vereesa told Alleria, but it was in no doubt told in an Alliance bias.]] She also tells her side of the "War Crimes" story to Alleria which makes her out to be a victim and completely blameless.

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'''Other factions:''' [[Characters/WarcraftTheHordeOldHorde The Old Horde/Iron Horde]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheScourge The Scourge]] | [[Characters/WarcraftSylvanasAndFollowers Sylvanas and her followers]] | [[Characters/WarcraftKnightsOfTheEbonBlade Knights of the Ebon Blade]] | [[Characters/WarcraftIllidanAndFollowers Illidan and his followers]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheHordeGarroshsHorde Garrosh's Horde]] | [[Characters/WarcraftPandaria Pandaria]] | [[Characters/WarcraftOthers Other mortals]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheOldGods The Void (The Old Gods)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftEternals Eternals]] | [[Characters/WarcraftShadowlands Shadowlands (Death)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTitans The Titans (Arcane)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheBurningLegion The Burning Legion (Fel)]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheDragonflights The Dragonflights]] | [[Characters/WarcraftWildGods Wild Gods]] | [[Characters/WarcraftTheArtifactWeapons The Artifact Weapons]]\\

* FantasticRacism: Severely against the orcs, whom she view as little more than vermin to be exterminated.

* TragicBigot: Yes, she hates orcs, but look at it from her point of view: the last time she encountered orcs was in the time of ''Warcraft 2'' while all of the orcs were bloodthirsty and murderous (which was due to the Burning Legion), and she's been gone since then, she would be reluctant to believe the orcs weren't AlwaysChaoticEvil as they seemed to be, but is in fact very wrong in that regard as it is shown that orcs are more civilized then she deems them to be.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Clare Corbett

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Courtneay Taylor

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Dee Baker

** In ''Shadowlands'', the Void Elves receive a variety of new eye colors, ranging from blue eyes that are similar to the ones the High Elves have, to purple eyes. The High Elf [[NonPlayerCharacter NPCs]] also get a their own unique variation of the latter, which isn't available to Void or Blood Elf players.

* OurElvesAreBetter: Obviously follow most of the classic High Elf tropes, with the main difference being that they are technically a splintered faction of the Blood Elves who chose to keep their old name and stick with the Alliance. They can be visually distinguished from Blood Elves by usually being portrayed with glowing blue eyes instead of green. Void Elves are more similar to dark elves, what with pale skin, dark hair and sinister-looking [[BeardOfEvil goatees]], but DarkIsNotEvil.

** In ''Shadowlands'', the Void Elves receive a variety of new eye colors, ranging from blue eyes that are similar to the ones the High Elves have, to PurpleEyes. The High Elf [[NonPlayerCharacter NPCs]] also get a their own unique variation of the latter, which isn't available to Void or Blood Elf players.