Night Elves (or kaldorei, meaning “children of the stars” in Darnassian, the Night Elves’ native tongue) have a skin color that ranges from deep lavender to marble white, and they have extremely long (almost lagomorphic) ears, and hair in various cool-toned shades including blue, purple, green, white and black. The eyes of most Night Elves glow with a bright silver light, but in some rare cases an Gold eyed Night Elf is born, the Gold color signify they are destined for great things. The race is tall, with the men standing approximately at 7.5 feet. The men are always of a slim-waisted yet rock-like, extremely muscular build including gigantic bear-like arms and hands. Malfurion Stormrage has antlers like a deer, although this seems to be atypical and is likely the result of his druidic learning. The women are very different, having a slim, athletic, and voluptuous build, but still standing nearly as tall as the men. Unlike most other Elves, Night Elf men often have thick beards and bushy eyebrows. In Warcraft III, the Night Elves lived on the continent known as Kalimdor and were never seen by, and only known of by a few Orcs or Humans until they were introduced to the Warcraft Universe in Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos. In World of Warcraft, they live on the tree-island of Teldrassil, which is north and slightly west of Kalimdor. The greatest population of Night Elves reside in their capital city, Darnassus.

Night Elf crest, “Icon of Wisdom.”Many male elves are druids while many females become warriors in a group known as the “Sentinels.” In World of Warcraft, however, both males and females can take on the role of druid, warrior, hunter, rogue or priest indiscriminately. In Warcraft III, the Night Elves were neutral but in World of Warcraft they have become a part of the Alliance. The night elf racial mounts are the Frostsaber (white tiger with either spots or stripes) and the Nightsaber (dark tiger available with stripes only). There are also other breeds of ridable saber cats called stormsabers and wintersabers; however, these epic mounts are only available at level 60. In Warcraft III they also had a strange form of Hippogryph as well, it being raven and deer, in the manner of a Peryton instead of the usual eagle and horse combination. This creature is used as an air transport in World of Warcraft.

Before the end of Warcraft III all Night Elf druids were male, and slept for thousands of years in the Emerald Dream while the women were left to protect their slumber. Hence the females became prominent in combat. They were described by Grom Hellscream in Warcraft III as too savage to be High Elves, and as “the perfect warriors”.

In World of Warcraft, they are the second most popular race on American and European servers, right behind humans.[1] The Night Elf Hunter is supposedly the most popular race/class combination in World of Warcraft.[citation needed]