Yeah, I readily admit to huge gaps in my lore knowledge, but for anything involving Kael'thas (which by extension drags in a lot of Arthas- and Illidan- related storylines) I've been hitting the books pretty hard the past few years.
Maybe the "older" you were thinking of was the division between night elf / high elf, which effectively happened after the War of the Ancients and the Great Sundering.
ETA: Pishbo, I cry at the end of ALL the cinematics. The one you mention - totally sobbing even the 4th time through. (And the Talador one as well.) ~ If they don't do something with the... thing that is transferred in the SMV one, I swear I'm gonna go out there and bite Metzen's ass.
ETA2: They've said though that since that's an alternate/parallel timeline, people can die there that are alive in "our" timeline. (Kinda makes me wonder if they'll find some way to bring in non-demonic Illidan and high elf Kael'thas. If the latter, please please PLEASE use the new quel'dorei/sin'dorei models, because Kael been the fugliest elf in the game for like FOREVER, and it's bloody canon that he was so good-looking that it intimidated Jaina... well, that and him being like a thousand years older then she was. :p)
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Date: 2015-02-08 05:53 am (UTC)Maybe the "older" you were thinking of was the division between night elf / high elf, which effectively happened after the War of the Ancients and the Great Sundering.
ETA: Pishbo, I cry at the end of ALL the cinematics. The one you mention - totally sobbing even the 4th time through. (And the Talador one as well.) ~ If they don't do something with the... thing that is transferred in the SMV one, I swear I'm gonna go out there and bite Metzen's ass.
ETA2: They've said though that since that's an alternate/parallel timeline, people can die there that are alive in "our" timeline. (Kinda makes me wonder if they'll find some way to bring in non-demonic Illidan and high elf Kael'thas. If the latter, please please PLEASE use the new quel'dorei/sin'dorei models, because Kael been the fugliest elf in the game for like FOREVER, and it's bloody canon that he was so good-looking that it intimidated Jaina... well, that and him being like a thousand years older then she was. :p)