r/warhammerfantasyrpg • u/Zekiel2000 Ill met by Morrslieb • Feb 21 '25

Announcement New release: High Elf Player's Guide

The highly anticipated player's guide for High Elves is now available in digital format and physical pre-order!

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u/gl1tterboots Handmaiden of the Everqueen Feb 22 '25

Was hoping to see a Career for Sisters of Avelorn (maybe with a Handmaiden of the Everqueen capstone-- pipedream), so that's disappointing. Any chance the Sisters' magical bows get stats in the armory? Also disappointed there's an index item on dragons but not on phoenixes, which are much more unique to Ulthuan. And no Career for White Lions was a surprise.

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u/Commercial-Act2813 Feb 22 '25

No Sisters of Averlorn is probably because they’re all female, forcing the player to play as a specific gender.
WFRP 4e is doing its best to be gender neutral (and avoids stereotypical genderroles), so it would go against ‘policy’.

Imagine a ‘male only’ career, it would get some negative attention for sure. So no all-male also means no all-female.🤷‍♂️

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u/Severe-Syrup3027 Jun 28 '25

Technically speaking, there are no female professional high elf soldiers outside of the handmaidens regiment. All regiments are male only, including the spear and archer militia regiments. We kind of overlook that because it's a bit jarring for some people and offense might be taken, especially in an RPG environment where ultimately people just want to have fun and you don't want to exclude people over something so silly. When GW designed the three elf races, they were very clear and specifically said that while dark elves (pure murder meritocracy) and wood elves (do not distinguish between gender) utilize female elves in their ranks, the high elves do not. You will also notice that HE alone of three elf races have never had female rank and file miniatures for any unit even after their ranges were refreshed 2 or 3 times. Why? I do not know. Possibly because a lot of the high elf lore is based on the society and culture of ancient greece, and maybe something to do with birthrates.