For nearly 7,000 years, high elven society centered on the sacred Sunwell, a magical fount that was created using a vial of pure arcane energy from the first Well of Eternity. Nourished and strengthened by the Sunwell’s potent energies, the high elves’ enchanted kingdom of Quel’Thalas prospered within the verdant forests north of Lordaeron.

During the Third War, however, the high elves were nearly scoured from Azeroth. Led by the death knight Arthas, a Scourge army stormed into Quel’Thalas, slaughtering almost ninety percent of the kingdom’s population. Arthas then used the mystical Sunwell to resurrect the fallen necromancer Kel’Thuzad, irrevocably tainting the fount in the process.

Fearing that the befouled well would obliterate his dwindling race, Prince Kael’thas Sunstrider gathered a group of Quel’Thalas’s defenders and destroyed the fount to avert catastrophe. Although the high elves were spared from continued exposure to the Sunwell’s dark energies, in the fount’s absence they suffered terribly from withdrawal. As a result, Kael’thas desperately searched for a means to help his people—whom he had renamed the blood elves—and thus he set out for the shattered world of Outland...

Text above is part of the official racial overview, taken directly from the main website. Updated version of the text can be found here:
https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/gam...

All music composed by Russell Brower

Original thumbnail artworks by James Ryman (background), Samwise Didier (crest), and Glenn Rane (ridiculously photogenic elves)

0:00 Silvermoon Intro
2:13 The Sin’dorei (OST)
8:53 [Eversong Woods] Sunstrider Day 1, Night 1
11:51 Silvermoon Day, [Eversong Woods] Scenic Intro
16:36 Silvermoon Night 1, [Eversong Woods] Ruins Day
21:25 [Ghostlands] Scenic 1, 2
23:38 [Ghostlands] Forest 1 Day 2, Forest 2 Day 1
25:56 [Ghostlands] Forest 2 Night 1, [Eversong Woods] Scorched Night
28:38 [Icecrown Citadel] Crimson Hall 1
30:39 Sunwell Plateau Arrival
32:57 [Sunwell] Quel’Danas 1, Shorel’Aran
36:12 [Sunwell] Magisters’ Terrace 2, 3, Sunwell Plateau 3
40:27 [Sunwell] Magisters’ Terrace 1, Isle Light 3
43:20 Sunwell Plateau 1, [Sunwell] Magisters’ Asylum
48:40 [Sunwell] Isle Dark 1
51:01 [Tempest Keep] Ambient 12, 17
53:28 [Icecrown Citadel] Crimson Hall 2, 3
55:40 Silvermoon Night 2, 3
57:59 Silvermoon Day
1:01:12 [Eversong Woods] Sunstrider Night 2, Ruins Night
1:05:40 [Eversong Woods] Sunstrider Day 3, Building Night
1:08:55 [Eversong Woods] Building Day
1:10:43 [Eversong Woods] Sunstrider Day 2
1:11:41 [Ghostlands] Forest 3 Day 1
1:14:14 [Ghostlands] Forest 2 Night 2, Forest 1 Day 1, Forest 1 Night 1
1:16:52 [Ghostlands] Scenic 3, [Icecrown Citadel] Crimson Hall 4
1:20:04 Sunwell Plateau 4, 5
1:23:03 [Sunwell] Magisters’ Arrival, Sanctum, Magisters’ Terrace 5
1:27:40 [Sunwell] Quel'Danas 2
1:29:03 [Sunwell] Assembly Chambers, Isle Medium 3
1:32:59 [Sunwell] Isle Light 1
1:34:55 Sunwell Plateau 6, 2
1:37:33 [Sunwell] Bombing Run

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