Bloody Hellves

You will also note that the icon for the blood elves has changed from that screen shot, and pandarians have been added. So either its a fact or a later version of the beta expansion.

There is your reasonable doubt.

The background of that character creation shot uses the orc background...

Don't you think bloodelves would get their own setting background?

Placeholder art. They did the same with the early WoW betas - the character creation screens were somewhat different back then but they used the same background for all (Or at least one for each faction) if memory serves me correctly.

Posting what I put on my Guilds Forum..

Somehow I very much doubt that the Blood Elves will be joining the horde, last time I checked the Pandearians were with the Horde (does anyone else remember playing the mini World of warcraft game that was a late patch into Warcraft III? You played as Rexxar and two other heros by the end of the game, they had zepplins to go to the troll Islands and even the Thunderlizard valley thing in Durotar was there, Basically it was revolved around securing the founding of Durotar with heros and defending from Human counter attacks.((which would explain the run down Human castle in Durotar)))

From what I can make out of the racial abilities in the picture, Elves never "Consume Demonic corpses to gain attack and *is cut off from there* " and if the leaked character is Blood Elves for horde, then the new alliance race would be Pandeaian... which makes about as much sense as a jellybean and pickle sandwich...

Also from the Wikipedia Entry:

"Outside of Outland, there are few allies that the Blood Elves can count on aside from the Naga; they are bent solely on the destruction of the Scourge that destroyed their homeland and the dismantling of the Alliance which they feel had failed them. They scorn the shamanistic and druidic societies of the Orcs, Tauren and Night Elves and make no distinction between the Forsaken and the Scourge. Due to their history of warfare with the Forest Trolls of Zul'Aman, they hate the Jungle Trolls, who are allied with the Horde, by association.

The Blood Elves are despised by most, Alliance and Horde alike. The Humans, Dwarves and Gnomes see them as traitors, while the Night Elves, who can sense their addiction on a mystical level, abhor them even more than they do the High Elves. The Tauren are likewise repulsed. The Orcs are horrified by the Blood Elves' use of warlock magic, which reminds them of their own enslavement to demons and bloodlust. Most High Elves grieve for their bretheren but agree that they are too far gone to be cured and too dangerous to be left alive. However, many have given into the despair of their addiction and joined the Blood Elves.

The Blood Elves have three main goals: the destruction of all Undead, whether Scourge or Forsaken; the reclamation of Kalimdor as their new homeland; and the downfall of the Alliance, particularly the Night Elves."

/end leak

Ummm did you not know that the blood elves HATE(with a passion) the alliance they would side with anyone who is against the alliance.

I still don't see what makes Blood Elves an obvious choice for Horde, given their allegiance to Illidan. Some type of story arc would be required.

Anyway, possible proof that it's fake: it's 7:40 Pacific, and links to this pic have not been removed from the WoW forums yet.

All of you may think this is a fake, but I think it is real.... How could anyone photoshop an entire town like that, which looks just like blizzard graphics.... Not to mention.... heres an extremly good point.... If you've played horde to at least level 20ish, then you've been to sun rock retreat (or may have raided with alliance). In sun rock retreat by the lake, there is a blood elf, if you look at her at a glance she looks human, but if you look more closely you'll see her have the ears of a night elf, but the skin tone of a blood elf. This could be a scam, but correct me if I'm wrong, when was the last time you seen an NPC that was a humanoid that was not one of the 4 races? Blood elf is the only one of I've seen of its kind. Bing blood elf swears allegiance to demonic power, which is why its an obvious good addition to the horde faction. I also see that the robes of a blood elf look very dramatic at such an early stage, but, you have to relize that the clothing pattern doesnt determine level. My level 42 priest for instance looks like shes level 10 or 15.... But she has the best items for her level. I agree I've seen alot of fake things, and scams, however, I think this one may be the real deal.

The elf you saw was a HIGH Elf, they are still around and not the same thing as a BLOOD elf. There are a few High elfs around if ya look for em.

No, she's a blood elf, it says 'Blood Elf' under her name. She also gives a quest to go kill a Night Elf guy in Ashenvale. In the quest she goes on about how much she hates Night Evles. I don't see a high elf doing that.

Also all high elves are pretty much blood elves now, they'd be pretty rare to see if they weren't, especially out in the open, and even more rare to be on the horde side.

The problem I have, is that I dont see Illidan siding with the Horde. According to the latest plot development in the last patch, Illidan has gone mad.

Well, I think this is proof enough! The post that showed off this link, the same post that lead me here, was promtly deleted off the World of Warcraft US forums.

This is obviously fabricated. The blood elf description is incoherent and the description of the Horde is mispelled. BRTUTAL? WTF?

This is clearly a fake. If I'm not mistaken, that high/blood elf is the same one at BRD entrance that gives attunement quest? Maybe not... The blood elf character is nearly identical to this one... http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d8/Warcraft_Blood_elf.jpg. Granted there are some very very slight differences. Most notable is the belt is curved in the screenshot, and not in the wiki image, also the screenshot seems to have a little more depth, around the face for instance. However these differences can be easily modified in photoshop, I could do it if I had a large source of the wiki image. A little dodge and burn around the face can give it more depth like the screenshot, and the belt is equally easy to manipulate.

If the like image is not convincing enough for you. Consider all the other errors, like...
1) Brtutal, wtf? It's correctly spelled in the core game, don't believe me? Go see for yourself, make a horde character... So somehow Blizzard managed to fuck things up enough to take a correctly spelled word in the core game, and misspell it for expansion? Doesn't make sense to me.

2) A Blood Elf mage? LOL

3) All the other graphical quirks... like the Orc/troll background, avatar images changing, the panderan avatar doesn't seem to fit the style imo, granted these could all be just place holders as others suggested... but personally I don't think so, I just think it's someone who didn't polish their faked image.

4) If you examine the image in Photoshop at about 400% or higher, you'll notice there is a high amount of artifacts around the "cut out" line of the Blood Elf. Artifacts are common in a poor compressed jpeg, however the artifacts around the Blood Elf are not uniformed with the rest of the image. This would lead me to believe the image was pasted in.

5) A few other things some others have mentioned... The clothing is much too nice for a level 1 character. The racial ability of the Blood Elf does not seem legit. Neither Horde nore Alliance are favorable to the Blood Elves, and the Panderan race would be more likely to be Horde than BE, per WCIII story arc.

Those who suggest that no one would photoshop a BE city (shown in the other screenshots), well no one is disputing those images. Just because there is a screenshot showing Blood Elves, and some cool structures that might belong to them, doesn't mean it's a playable race. I can go take some screenshots of Booty Bay right now, does that mean we can play Goblins? Who's to say those screenshots are neutral content? Like Argent Dawn, or Booty Bay, or Gadgetzahn, etc etc etc. Maybe they are making a Blood Elf city with quest to do. The fact that some of you confirm your belief based on a couple screenshots that have zero proof that it = playable race is insane...

and for those who still belive this is all true... Da'nile is more than just a river in Africa :P

ur all n00bs, look at the writing of the 5 horde races in the top right hand corner... i doubt Blizzard would spell Brutal Wrong, "The Brtutal Orcs, the..."

As much as I hope this isn't true, how do you explain the town screenies?

Since we haven't seen an actual PC toons, just NPC's - it could be a Blood elf town for extra quests once Hero classes are active. Screenies of the char creation could be faked, but the quest areas look too real. Unless this is an April Fool's joke ruined for 06'.

The image in that picture of the character selection screen is labelled as a "high elf mage" in the WoW model viewer under "creature".

Screen shot from the model viewer:
http://img319.imageshack.us/img319/2124/highelf8kq.jpg

think i'm full of crap? go check it out yourself,
http://wowmapview.sourceforge.net/wowmodelview/

Yes, blood elvs are not going to be horde. Why side with undead (which they hate all of, even with sylvanas the banshee queen was one of them, theyd wana kill her and put her soul to rest) then the orcs tryed killing their race in war2, and even since the begining of the world, elvs have despised trolls,and vise versa, so its safe to say, that horde will be getting no elvs. BUT the panderian may be the horde race, because you can use the hero duruing the horde campaigns and makes friends with the troll and rexxar. And, trhe panda can also use a shmana type class most likley because of its special aility in war3 expansion (Storm, earth, and fire)

actually you have it backwards the blood elves are going to the horde side and the pandarian are going to the alliance and i have screen shots to back this up you can find the on the web