The official Web site also promised a new "as yet-unrevealed new race" for the Alliance. However, an image that was posted along with leaked photos of the blood elves showed a character-creation screen with a bear-humanoid pandaren on the Alliance side. Blizzard would not comment on the screen.

After being booted from the Alliance for tinkering with demonic practices, the blood elves joined up with the Horde to reach Outland. What's Outland you ask? Outland is the new region of the game, and it can only be reached by passing through the Dark Portal. The area is all that remains of Draenor, the orc homeland that now floats "upon the astral winds of the Twisting Nether."