Thank you all for your replies! 
Anything, anywhere is going to work, thereâs no reason to think why humans of this or any other colour would be treated different or that they have to be segregated into specific areas where âit makes most senseâ like youâre some eredar.
Unfortunately the lines between Azeroth and our world are still blurred to some people and the distinction is hard to make, which is why on my character I get these weird interactions when someone âbites their tongueâ colloquially speaking and tries not to be âracistâ, to which my character can only respond with a ??? pikachu face and move on.
Or he will admit that no, he wasnât born in a Stromic coalmine, but in good nature he appreciates the joke.
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There are black Vrykul.
Ergo there are black Humans.
Simples.
People who shouldnât be roleplaying because they canât understand the cardinal rule of playing a rule. Itâs acting, its not reality, Azeroth is not Earth and you are not your character.
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Thereâs so much magic and âdivineâ influence in human âevolutionâ Iâm actually surprised there arenât purple or bright pink humans.
They descend from a stone or iron servant race created by Gods of Order, cursed by gods of Chaos, made flesh and then later shrunk through that same curse.
Also, theyâve been taught divine magic from angels from other divine sources for the longest time.
Those are just Night Elves in Stormwind.
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Whilst true, there is one point worth mentioning re. highborne/high elves/blood elves:
They were desperate to succeed quickly. After being exiled from the Well of Eternity, the Highborne began to feel the effects of aging and disease. Their skin had even lost its violet hue, and they begun to shrink in stature. The Highborne feared that the effects would only worsen over time.
- Chronicles, Volume 1.
Thus the Well (or, perhaps, in some cases even the Sunwell, as weâve seen with the wretched) have the magical powers to completely change that, one way or another.
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They feared becoming gnomes.
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Explains why we have basement lepers in Silvermoon tbqh
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They must be studied so that the elves can escape their fate.
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Excuse you?
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Gnomophobia is real 
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I am excused, gnomes are awesome. Itâs the elves that are being weird about it.
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My statement had nothing to do with being treated differently, I simply related the idea of different looking people stemming from different parts of the world, like in our world. Having read everyoneâs replies though, I have learnt this is not the case in Azeroth.
Letâs be honest for just a few moments rather than beating around the bush in an awkward way. 
Human skin color was linked to geographic regions throughout Warcraft and up to Shadowland. The darker-skinned Humans were from the south, including those who lived in Tanaris and who were, I believe, the descendants of ancient pirates who had arrived on these shores. As for the Quelâdorei, they were described as having very fair skin and sparkling blue eyes.
But Blizzard had to adapt to changing mentalities on social networks. And to allow everyone to play a character that resembles them, Blizzard has retcon this part of its lore to adapt to that. By placing characters of different skin colors, different physical appearances and different hair styles everywhere. Without geographical origin and without the slightest explanation. Itâs like that ! We can have a child who is totally different from us through the sheer coincidence of things. Although this rule does not apply to important characters like Varian and Anduin. Or Genn and his children. Or with Jaina, Arthas, etc. 
All this to say: There is no point in discussing it or looking for an explanation. It is an element that is forced. Without explanation. So you have to close your eyes to it and go with it without looking for an answer or a question. 
They arrived shortly after Jaina´s expedition discovered Kalimdor.
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I wonder if thereâs a lack of written lore reasons why some are some colour because the foundations of the WoW lore were written in a time where everyone just assumed characters would be white because itâs taken inspiration from medieval Europe.
Much like with Tolkien and Martinâs books
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This was never a thing. We had dark skinned humans from all around the Eastern Kingdoms already back in Classic, we had pale skinned humans from âthe southâ. Even the Wastewanders were by and large just tanned rather than dark skinned, theyâve only been in Tanaris since the aftermath of the Third War so roughly 2-3 years before Classic.
They were describes as having a lot more eye colours than blue, but otherwise fair. This is a retcon, but what about it? The first appearance of a dark skinned elf dates all the way back to Cataclysm.
Other than high elves having fair skin, which at a stretch you could also say means beautiful, this was never lore. Dark skinned humans popped up everywhere and it just makes sense. None of these skin tones are naturally occurring and sprung up as a result of the Old Gods afflicting the vrykul with the curse of flesh.
Ah yes, Varian and Anduin. A father and son that resemble one another so much.
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In WoW lore, skin colour seem to have been given a wider freedom in where they are from. All areas pf the human kingdoms would permit that of a dark skinned human.
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It really never was a thing that human skintones were tied to different regions and rightly so as they didnât evolve naturally. Humans popping up in different hues is as magical as any random elf variant.
The wastewander bandits have a bedouin aesthetic but arenât a regional ethnicity at all.
Itâs not a new thing brought on by social media pressure, thatâs just victim mentality pushed by certain weird terminally online people. Giving players more options just reflects what was already the case. Yes, even chocolate brown elves. Itâs in a book, donâtcha know.
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Nefarianâs human disguise alter ego is described and shown to be very dark-skinned since Day of the Dragon, a book that predates Warcraft 3âs expansion and World of Warcraftâs release by a few couple of years, and he was described as fooling everyone of being a typical vaguely Alteraci/Lordaeronian nobleman.
The lore about dark-skinned humans not being linked to geographical locations is from February 2001, which is literally older than the start of development of World of Warcraft as a videogame more than 22 years ago.
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