So..

[just_no_srsly]

I found some interesting things. Tell me what you make of these. NUMBER ONE. So I was sitting in Orgrimmar waiting for my queue to pop when a catchy little e-mote caught my eye, sadly I did not screen shot it. Something about not being like the whores in Silvermoon, so I was like O'rly?! and pulled up the profile. THIS IS WHAT I GOT:

Comments

[lightandwinged]

Hmm, ngl. I am curious as to who the Lightbreaker is, since I kind of have "close personal ties" with Apophan and his cult (read: I'm pretty sure he accidentally took our cable remote with him to class today :|).

Okay, he GTalked me as I was typing this and explained who it was. And also that the remote is under the couch cushions. :|

Half-trolls are one of the halfbreed concepts that I'm less skeptical of, if only because trolls have been interacting with many of the races in WoW for hundreds, if not thousands of years. That said, I don't buy that people would be like "Oh hey, nice tusks, man." This is something so few people understand about halfbreeds, that the WoW universe frowns pretty heavily on half-this/half-that people. Doubly and triply so if your character is halvsies with two races that hate each other. Your parents would likely be viewed as traitors to their respective races and you would likely be seen as a freak of nature

[hadeed]

I swear I'll run by on my half-orc and HUG you.

That'll serve you right.

Out of the lot, the biggest annoyance is that description filled with the history, and then the entire blank space glaring at me from the history tab.

[golden_shisa]

The problem is, most trolls are cannibals and extremely distrustful of outsiders. The Darkspear are among the few exceptions, and they have only entered the larger world recently. Thus, any half-trolls that aren't babies or little kids would have had to have this happen:

1. Non-troll boinks a troll, despite the races typically being violently hostile
2. Miraculously, conception happens, despite there being no precedent for it happening
3. Pregnancy is allowed to take its course
4. Half troll is born and not immediately eaten/mercy-killed
5. Half troll is allowed to grow up, despite half of its heritage being loathed by the race it's living with

Very, very unlikely!

[arachnogeek]

Thank you.

[lightandwinged]

Pretty much.

I can see it working under very specific circumstances, but certainly not a character who looks just slightly off center and was raised among BElves/High Elves with absolutely no troubles whatsoever.

[golden_shisa]

Yep. I mean, it is a distant possibility, but the reality of how it would actually play out wouldn't be attractive to the average person wanting to play a YOONEEK tribal elf.

"Whaddya mean, I can't just hang out in Silvermoon City with everyone else? And whaddya mean, almost no one would approach me for sexytimes once they found out what I am? This is booooring!"

[tiradell]

By "distant possibility" and "very specific circumstances" in regards to troll/elf hybrids, we need to be very clear.

The only possible tribe of troll that has had any close interactions between the high elves for a long enough time for a child of older than 12 to be possible is the Amani.

Amani hate elves, due to the centuries-long war between them. CENTURIES. Darkspear are less xenophobic than Amani (ain't saying much), and that only because they don't have a background of hatred, murder and displacement spanning a period of multiple generations.