Possible New (Sub)Races Datamined

[Scumstation]

Possible New (Sub)Races Datamined - Blizzplanet | Warcraft

KayRule had looked through the “chrraces” folder, which contains data for all races, playable and NPC alike, that can equip armor. At the very bottom of the list were four new entries: Nightborne, Hightmountain Tauren, Lightforged Draenei, and “Void Elf.” Stranger still was their data for “CreateScreenFile” and “SelectScreenFile.” This information is used to indicate what the background shows up on the character creation screen. Non player races that can equip gear, like fel orcs, naga, vrykul, and forest trolls, always have entries of “0” for those fields as they are not playable and would never appear on the character creation screen. Not only do the four new entries have values for what background should show up during character creation, they’re the same entries as certain other races:

Nightborne – Blood Elf

Highmountain Tauren – Tauren

Void Elf – Night Elf

Lightforged Draenei – Draenei

No other entries share ID numbers for those fields, except for Worgen and Gilnean (as you customize each form separately) and the three entries for pandaren due to their ability to choose a faction (alliance, horde, and pre-choice Wandering Isle). It’s as if these four new races are subraces of the above.

While all four of these entries stand out, the two most interesting are Nightborne and void elves. All nightborne models currently in-game cannot equip armor, their clothing is all part of their base model. And no one has any idea what “void elves” even are.

Update re: void elves

VoidElf entry refer to Blood Elf MODELS but the backgrounds refer to NIGHT ELF backgrounds.

Not just an interesting thing to note, but it means they weren't just copy-pasted from Night Elf/Blood Elves like the others could have been.

[Disphotic]

beat me to it :P

[artemarkantos]

blizzard talk about sub races, Orcs from Outland etc, i watch video on utube 2-3months ago, and guy talk about new race in next exp. and it was Elfs from Suramar. So mb