Burning Crusade ' s race ideas After the recent reveal to the world of the new playable Alliance Race for the Burning Crusade expansion of World of Warcraft , the Rumored Races page has no purpose to keep this expansion ' s arguments about that race . Here follow the last version of the WoWwikists ' speculations since the official Blizzard announcement of the new upcoming expansion . The New Alliance Race . 8 : 30am update : NY times reports these shots are actually of Draenei ( see , ) Blizzard ' s E3 presentation of the Expansion including ( something that looks like ) Eredrar as the new alliance race : Blizzard has confirmed at E3 that the new Alliance race will be an uncorrupted , unmutated version of the Draenei . Several screenshots have been captured of Blizzard ' s display at E3 . Though originally believed that the race depicted may be draenei , subsequent pictures of Blizzard ' s mural artwork appear to depict Eredar . This is a strange revelation , as the Eredar are known to be the most powerful demons in the Burning Legion . We can only speculate on why they would therefore join the Alliance - if indeed they are Eredar Warlocks . There is far too little lore on the Eredar at any rate , and we may yet be surprised . BIG NEWS : E3 Report with Details on New Race . A possible explanation for the Eredar could simply be mutual interest . One knows that Kil ' Jaeden wants Illidan dead , as do the Night Elves . Since the goal , as of now , for the burning crusade is to defeat Illidan , one can speculate that the Eredar and the Alliance have just teamed up as a means of defeating Illidan . Another popular theory is that the Eredar aren ' t actually true Eredar . The theory states that the Wisp s who destroyed Archimonde were affected a great deal by the destruction of the demon lord and the World Tree , enough so that the immense magical energies released resurrected and transformed them into the image of Archimonde . If this is true , it would mean that the Wisps April Fools joke , while still a joke , was actually a hint towards the new race . This is supported by how the Eredar ' s eye glow like a Night Elf ' s , as the Wisps are the ghosts of Night Elves . Of course , a clear explanation would be that the Draenei in the expansion will look fairly different than the Draenei we have come to know and love . This can be seen in the picture of the Broken One breed of Draenei , who like these screen shots , has tentacles down from his cheeks . The new alliance race would not be the " Broken Ones " , as the bestiary is for NPC types only , however that does not exclude it from being a separate yet similar - looking race of Draenei . This is analogous to how the Forest Trolls are in the bestiary , yet the Jungle Trolls are a playable race , as they are different yet closely related races . Its said that the reason that Blizzard waited so long was to fully update the art , and this theory fits with that explanation as the new art is vastly different from the old art . The new blood elves appear different from the old blood elves , however the changes are not as revolutionary . The Burning Legion is just an alliance of evil , however , so it is also possible that these Eredar want to stop their corrupted brethren and their Burning Crusade , since they are a race just as any other . According to NY times it turns out that Draenei are a subspecies of Eredar . Official Blizzard Response . Drysc says : Drysc says : Tigole Says : ( Jeff Kaplan ) Eyonix says : Caydiem : Eyonix : Notes on Races . The table below represents the best efforts of the WoWWiki community to list reasons why a race may or may not be the new Burning Crusade Alliance race , but also includes reasons why they may be in a future expansion . They have been placed in to reduce bias toward any particular race . NOTE : Rumors are unsubstantiated and commonly false . Vote in a Poll ! Let ' s hear what you think at kwiz . biz ! Credits . Thanks especially to who put a ton of work into this page . Credit also goes to the many other WoWWiki users who contributed to and bashed heads over this page . The BCRR page was created by Thanks also to Blizz ard who generated the desire for this page by their cryptic inscrutability . _ _ NOEDITSECTION _ _