Ever since their introduction with The Burning Crusade expansion, there's been much talk of Blood Elves "ruining" the Horde by simply not fitting into the fierce mentality of the faction. Looking even a little past appearances, the complaint simply doesn't hold water - under surface appearances, Blood Elves are far more Horde than Alliance in mentality. They are not humans with pointy ears, any more than they are Victorian and androgynously ethereal Tolkien Elves. They aren't even the cliched Anne Rice vampires, "except with magic addiction instead of blood addiction". Though prettier on the outside and more political than most Horde species, as a race Blood Elves share the ferocity and some core beliefs as all the Horde races. More importantly, they share the same recent history and crisi