What I got from this thread, was that many role-players who I respected are incredulously close-minded. There is so much to say, I'm pretty damn sure I won't get through with it all in only one post.
*Hugely epic sigh*
Alright, let's do this thang.
First off, I see a lot of you trying to sound reasonable, understanding and generally like an all-round, not biased person. You have all failed.
I'm seeing three or four paragraphs of: "I know where you're coming from.." and it starts to sound like you're not biased... but then comes that one point where you pull out some tin foil and begin to make a hat.
I'm going to break down a few posts so that you all get a good idea:
To offfer a fresh take on the situation.
Suppose someone decided to try and insert Tauren, Orcs, Night Elves, and Dwarves into something like...Oh I don't know, Star Wars.
From the guy right above me. It sounds like he's going to be open minded and not throw the same rock that everyone else threw right?
As much as you may like Drow, they just don't exist in WoW lore or Star Wars lore or anything aside from Forgotten Realms/D&D.
Then that happens. This appears to be the brick wall you've all been hiding behind. Because it
currently does not exist in the lore, the story writers don't seem to be adding it to the lore, it doesn't exist right? It never has, never will.
Wrong.
Role-playing, to me, means to create a world outside of our normal mundane lives and make the dream a reality for you and others, basically a dream that we all share with each other through collaboration, also known as a "Thread" on the forums and basic dialogue in the game world. Although it stops being a shared dream when you refuse to accept any other reality except your own. When you repeatedly refuse to even look at another person's attempt to co-create because it does not currently exist.
This is the world you have now shown me, a world where role-players are too, just as close-minded as regular players.
"It does not exist, therefore it never will and never can exist."
And these are the words you now tell me.
So I ask
you. How did your world come about? How did this process of shared-dreaming, the alternate reality we all enjoy, come to be? If it never existed, how is it here, now, being enjoyed by millions? If the world all those years ago completely denied the idea that a planet could be inhabited by dragons, elves, orcs, gnomes and dwarves, along with the many other creatures on Azeroth, we wouldn't be here.
If the world so long ago denied any possibility of anything ever existing that did not currently exist, we would still be hitting animals over the head with blunt objects to get our daily supply of food. There would be no idea to ever take hold at anytime ever.
Because: "It does not exist, therefore it never will and never can exist."
Am I right?
So why would you, the dreamers, the creators, those who keep the world of Azeroth expanding by constantly pushing the bounds of known reality so that there may be room for another like-minded soul, dare to deny the possibility of a dark skinned elf with white hair? An idea that is not so far-fetched as the idea of a titanic being whose very whispers can drive even the most mentally sound person to near insanity that is currently inter-twined with the very land you dare lay your head upon.
This.. this "
Drow" to the best of my knowledge, is an elf who has been tainted by the dark magics, it's very power eternally altering their appearance, or if of the world of Dragonlance, an elf who has broken a vow within their natural life and must therein spend the rest of their existence trying to fix that wrong. Does this not ring a bell in your head that reminds you of a certain elf society who currently resides just above the dark woods of the Ghostlands?
This was just my take on the closed minds of my fellow dreamers, just wait you cross-over people you, I've only just gotten started.
