On an US forum i read about the blood/void elves skin problem.
Black blood/void elves need some sort of introduction about why they are black.
is it just me or is that a little racist? to be honest i am white in real life so that’s said.
my new neighbour is Black. holy sh*t in didn’t get a proper introduction, how do i deal with that. simple i pretend he is from a country far away(oh and he doesn’t speak our language but that is real i don’t pretend he doesn’t understand me) my point in reallife we do not need proper introductions for other skintones when they enter your life do we? why can people not pretend these black blood/void elves come from a place far away or from some sort of island we do not know yet. why do we need a story made up by Blizzard for it? every time i see black people i’m not like go back i haven’t got a proper story about you yet. just be happy with the new skintones.
nobody has a problem with the next topic.
alot of races can have blind eyes now too. wait, what how did i lost that eye?
blizzard should make a questline for that because they did it with the nightwarrior. i need to know how my toon lost his/her eye otherwise the lore is wrong, nobody is saying that. so why are these skintones a big issue.
just use your own fantasy that is what makes Wow great we can be whoever we wanne be.
I was a foreign exchange student In America back when Legion dropped so I wanted to play wow while I was there (Kentucky) so I had to create a US account and play on US servers. And the amount of N-words I saw in chat was disgusting. It was all the time in guild chat, raid chat, Dungeon chat and especially in trade chat. When I asked an in-game friend, I had made he just said that how it always have been… I read about it in a forum post with one explaining it’s probably because the vast majority of US wow players are white men and they just consider it a part of their 1st-amendment bullsh%# so that’s prob why no one get’s reported for saying it over there
Just imagine you travel the whole world, and you’ve been in every country.
And one day you go to the lake and there you see 5 people bathing, they all have blue skin. Obviously you wouldn’t think this is normal.
And I guess it’s a bit similar with blood elves with dark skin tones. I really hope they give all NPCs in the world a mix of old and new skin tones and eye colours. Otherwise it’s really strange when out of nowhere suddenly there are a few black elves.
I don’t consider it racist. The problem isn’t that the colours are darker, but that they go against the established lore. Blood elves are supposed to have fair, golden or peach coloured skin. In fact, two of the new colours are suitable for blood elves, because even though they are dark they have golden undertones, but the two darker are just plain brown, and don’t fit the racial lore.
The fact is that Blizzard was just plain lazy and copied the new darker human skin tones to the blood elves. They could have made blood elves as dark as they wanted, as long as they would have respected the lore and given them golden undertones on all 4 skins.
that is just what we need orange skintones Thordall you are brilliant.
Korrina
i understand what you mean, but what about the new dwarf options where do all these wildhammer dwarfs come from. we have never seen them in stormwind with shadowlands they will be everywhere. sure we know they are ingame for a long time. but maybe blizzard is planning something for the futher where we find out where black blood/void elves come from.
i don’t think i have seen all the troll skintones ingame before. but every one is fine with it. i have never seen tattoed orcs before but here they are. how?
Believe me it’s 10 times worse in rated bg’s or raids where they use discord. I swear rated bg’s that are on discord are the most to toxic place I’ve seen on any game. The n word is used none stop constantly calling anyone who doesn’t play right or accidently messes up always gets called “f**… n-word”, this has happened in ALOT of rated bg’s, all different teams too. I refuse to play rated bg’s with voice because of it now, but have avoided rated bg’s altogether because of it tbh.
I never thought we’d reach the point where the n-word is played out, but we’ve been at it for the past 2 years. When I see it in a game I roll my eyes at this stage. It’s been overused.
As for elf skin tones - I don’t mind it, it can make sense, but it does go against established lore around how their skin tone is related to the Sunwell (and why Nightborne are purple related to the Nightwell). It’s not something that would get my panties in a knot. We have classes that turn into pterrordaxes, I’m sure we can explain how a blood elf gets a different skin shade.
I still want a dummy thicc model for blood elf females. I think the current one is too skinny and in combat they become rather invisible.
Also can’t wait for Shadowlands, when allied races will be unlocked, so I can make an Uncle Ruckus character on the alliance.
Is there lore about the dwarves skin colours? Honest question, dwarf lore isn’t my strong suit. I know they descent from the earthen, so earth tones actually make sense for me on a dwarf. The lore was very specific about blood elf skins colours, it’s just annoying seeing Blizzard not care about their lore.
But why does no one care about the night elves getting some dark ash grey skin tone, theres has always been purple and blues. Where is the law about them having dark grey skin?
To be fair, the skintones haven’t really been a big question in the WoW universe as a whole, maybe except for green/brown orcs, because their skin was changed due to corruption.
The high elves were changed from their night elf purple due to mal-nutrition and such.
But look at the humans. They have been in all real-life human skin tones from the start. So they have been diverse from the beginning, despite there not being any biological reason to it whatsoever.
If you compare it to real life logic, then there is a reason why people from different parts of the world develop different skin tones (the UV-rays of the sun is the answer, in case you didn’t already know).
So in the Warcraft universe, skin tones have never really been set in stone or considered with a real life comparison in mind. The skin tones have have sometimes changed due to events (orcs corruption, high elves, etc.). But apart from that, Blizzard has always been very liberal with the use of their colour pallette.
They could make red taurens tomorrow without any explanation and it wouldn’t break the lore. At least not compared to how they have handled it until now.
EDIT: With that said. I am quite confident in assuming that the reason why it’s introduced in the first place, is to check a diversity box. There’s probably no game or universe related reason attached.
The only thing in the lore about Blood Elves written in Chronicle I believe is that when they left the Night Elves and went away from their font of power they lost their purple hue of their skin.
This being said, they just stopped being purple/blueish. Not fair skinned, but we always think they should be light skinned because of traditional mainstream elf lore in movies.
In Wow it just states they stopped being purple.
i know what you mean but i do not see the problem with the lore, simply because every one is happy about the new troll skins, the orc tattoos, mag’har orcs are from an entire diffrent universe then ours they come from the past/futher and diffrent univers no one has problems with that. in lore they never spoke about a multiverse but yet here it is. people are all over the place because the lore isn’t right because of these black skins. we killed Illidan many years ago. if you look at his HP bar it said dead. and in legion he is back. which means the lore was wrong. i can talk all night about the lore beeing wrong. so the black skintones beeing a problem with the lore is bllsht
I thought the Sunwell affected their eyes, made it blue because it was the original well of eternity water. Arcane energy.
Then they got green because Kael’Thas had the fell energies and they were draining the Naaru.
Now they’re Gold because Anveena(The Remnants of the Sunwell’s power) was used to reignite it, with Velen’s light and Kallegos’ magic.
I’ve played quite a lot of RBGs (not raiding though), and I have never even heard the use of that word once.
And I am raiding in WoW Classic and has been for a while.
I hear these stories a lot, but never experience them myself.
My presence must be calming, soothing and make the people around me nicer.
Aren’t there eyes a greeny colour and like 2 or 3 yellow colours to choose from. Because there was all that fuss about wanting blue eyes for high elve, so they recently gave blue eyes to both night elves and blood elves and void elves.
