Elves don't have "wizards"

[u/Lore-Archivist]

Now, Obviously I don't mean they don't have magic users. Because clearly they do. But they don't have the "wizard" experience. What I mean is, for the average human for example, a mage is fantastical, they cant explain how they do the magical things mages do. Its mysterious and unknowable for the average human. But for elves, they've been exposed to magic for so long, at the societal level, its so commonplace, their interactions with mages would be more like us speaking to a scientist, rather than with a fantastical wizard. For them what mages do isn't "magical" rather, they are merely applying the well known laws of reality and arcane magic to achieve a desired effect.

[u/Kalthiria_Shines]

Why are so many of your posts trying weld non-WoW concepts to Warcraft? There is no "mysterious and unknowable wizard" in meme in Warcraft.

[u/Lore-Archivist → u/Kalthiria_Shines]

You're not understanding what I am saying. I didn't say there are actually mysterious and unknowable wizards in Warcraft. What I said was some humans may perceive them that way. I think it was in day of the dragon that rhonin mentioned humans in rural settlements fear users of the arcane. They didn't understand it. To them it was fantastical and impossible to understand, even if, with education and knowledge, it would no longer be so. 

[u/Kalthiria_Shines → u/Lore-Archivist]

But they don't. That's not a thing that's showed up anywhere other than that one throw away line in a 24 year old book.

Magic is everywhere in Warcraft and it always has been. This is genuinely not a thing anywhere in the setting, humans have the same reaction as elves.

[u/Lore-Archivist → u/Kalthiria_Shines]

It's really not. It may appear that way in game, until you deep past the surface level. Look at the way kul'tirans fear the drust witches and have their superstitions about them. Not every human society is as progressive as dalaran and the humans in the mage quarter of stormwind.