So When do Night Elves Get Paladins?

If you play a Dwarf Paladin (or newly, a Dark Iron Dwarf Paladin) I feel for you. For a class that is more limited than most when it comes to race options, one might have expected to see full representation within the Paladin class hall during Legion. But Dwarves were left out, with no class champion, while we got a Blood Elf, a Tauren, a Draenei, two humans, a redeemed Nathrezim (I really hope Lothraxion shows up more - kind of a good, Alliance counterpoint to Varimathras back pre-Wrathgate) and, surprisingly, two Night Elves.

Now, to be fair, one of these was a redeemed spirit, but Delas Moonfang was absolutely a Night Elf Paladin. Like many, she began as a priest, but after our defense of Netherlight Temple (coordinated with the Conclave - the two class campaigns are nearly identical) she chose instead to become a Paladin, something unprecedented in Night Elf culture (maybe.)

After hints like the Highborne returning to Darnassus and Aponi Brightmane talking about An'she prior to Cataclysm, a lot of people speculated that Night Elves were about to get the Paladin class.

But we haven't seen anything of that since then.

It's odd, now that they've established lore for it, you'd think they'd go ahead. Night Elves and Paladins are both very popular, so it's not like there would be no demand. And with Gnome Hunters introduced in Legion, it's clear they're willing to add race/class combos on their own and not exclusively in big swaths like Cataclysm.

So what's the hold-up? Don't we want to see a crazy Elune-themed Nightsaber paladin mount?

I'm going to keep this relatively vague, as it's a bit of an 8.1 spoiler, but we are going to be seeing the Night Elves start to explore a more dangerous aspect of the moon goddess - not the peaceful, loving Mother Moon, but a more vengeful Night Warrior - and Tyrande is going to be leading the charge on communing with this aspect of the goddess.

Is she going to become a Paladin? Could that be what this is?

I don't know. But it's definitely a different route to Paladin-ship than the one Delas took.