Orcs can also be brown now.
There you go! Everyone is inluded. Inclusivity all over WoW.
Now, stop changing Belves into some kind of dark elves!
That’d be an improvement tbf.
As a seperate race? Yeah, why not. For warlocks, assasins, mages, druids only? Maybe a necromancer (if it’s ever introduced and well executed).
I really hope you’re joking. You act as if there hadn’t been different settings for skin colours for each mentioned group from the beginning. Stereotypical thinking based on your subjective perception. Belves had a brownish-red skin option since BC. Draenei had grey and minding Eredar, also dark red to red-brown. Trolls brown? Rather green to blue. And Orcs haven’t been green before the fel corruption at all.
Stereotype thinking again. How do you define “blood elf physique”? Thin? Bit of a teenage like appearance? And how do you imagine dark skinned elf physique in contrast to that if I may ask? Your arguments are incredibly dull.
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So I guess the thing that needs explaining is how did the white elves evolve from the black elves, where did the white elves come from, is it because they moved further north a really long time ago? Or perhaps magic turned them white.
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High elves evolved from Night Elves as they, in essence, separated from them because of the use of arcane magick that attracted legion. It is somewhat explained in the lore (but not in game). Also, it wasn’t magick per se that turned them white, but rather lack of influence of the Well of Eternity that made their skin pale. So, no black elves here.
There must be black elves, because of the melanin, it’s not possible for black elves to not exist.
Well, there were non in the lore. The closest thing you can get to a canonical black elf is nightbourne.
So it’s quite obvious that the story of how the elves came to be white has yet to be revealed to us.
It is explained, as you see. So, yeah…
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No, that only explains how they came to lose the blue colouring, not how they lost the black colouring that they would have had after losing the blue colouring.
To be fair, that is a good question. After all, we do have Nightbourne, who are by (almost) no means pale. My guess would be the powers of the Sunwell that they created to suppliment the Well of Eternity.
So, worshipping the sun and having a sun well makes you pale? Okay then…
I saw a video that explains it like that. I know, a bit wierd. To play the devils advocate, if we look at the Inca Empire that worshipped the sun, they were not pale, not at all, but they weren’t quite black. Instead they were of a red(ish) color. If we look at belves customisation, some of their skin tones have a bit of a red hue. My best explanation for lore would be that they weren’t exactly pale before the destruction of the sunwell, but rather darker skinned, however, after Arthas defiled the Sunwell, causing Belfs to destroy it, they started becoming more and more pale, especially after consuming fel energy. As to make a more original way to present black elves, what if their skin color mathced the devotion towards light and sun? After all, we had an ofitial explanation for blue high elf eyes returning to belfs as an effect of rejecting fel in favour of the rebuilt Sunwell.
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Oh, hey, that’s what my friend RPs as)
True and real. God, I wish Blizzard would just fix their mess of a lore. Or just, y’know, stopped piling more garbage on its corps at that point…
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ALSO! Eredear are also red and green due to fel infusion, while some remain grey. Lightforged draenei are literally beings of almost pure light at this point and they are ALSO grey but with golden lines and runes. What a mess…
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*Screeches in Lore: “Blood Elves do not worship Be’lore! Their only state religion is the Light!” *
I know you were joking, but it is a genuinely hilarious thing in RP when a Kalimdor Horde comes to Silvermoon and makes a comment like “Ahh, but of course, your people worship the Sun”
“Err, what?”
“You worship the Sun don’t you? Be’lore is the name of your Sun God, like Elune is the Moon Goddess?”
“Err, do you know what Be’lore translates as from Thalassian to Orcish?”
" mumbles name of a God? "
“Sun…It’s what we call the big hot orange floaty thing in the sky. The sun. That’s all”
But yeah,
I mean I explained how individual Elves could end up with that skin colour, same as Caucasian people’s skin will darken till they are almost indistinguishable in skin colour (But not physiognomy) from the natives of that area, in our world. And that is just within a human lifespan, let alone one that spans 1000’s of years.
Oddly, that explanation holds some water, because unlike some of the new human models, the Elven ones still have the same physiognomy as pale skinned Thalassian Elves. That would make perfect sense.
The other possibility is more complex.
We know the first place the Proto-Blood Elves settled was Lordaeron. We also know it was not a great place, Something underground in those moors and fens was sending Elves crazy (We find out what it was in Legion), so the Elves underwent many hardships and headed North to find a new land, eventually coming across Quel’thalas.
What if a smaller group had opted to try heading -south-. They’d never have made it big, there was too much competition. There were no human kingdoms yet, which meant Elwynn and Redridge et al would still be Gnoll land, so not welcoming, further south and you hit regions that certainly look, dry, arid, with very little cover, and a blazing sun above it. Perhaps these elves over time, and passed to generations may have developed darker skins.
It would never have been a roaring success, by this point human tribes were now Kingdoms, the Gurubashi held Stranglethorn, and the arid bits in between were becoming either settled, or more and more the preserve of horrible creatures. Not too many of that southern expedition, or their grandchildren by now, would have survived, and then one day. Catastrophe as the Sunwell turns off. They hadn’t been North, they did not know all that had happened. They weren’t savages ignorant of the world, but like all Elves, were isolationist.
They didn’t even know what it all meant, not being aware that all this time the Sunwell had been nurturing them. They just knew they had a hunger for mana. Sadly for them, there was no Rommath to teach them how to drain Mana from living creatures. So they drained items, like the High Elves did. Who has magic Items? The neighbours. This would have rapidly made such a tiny colony vastly unpopular. When news reached them of the reignition of the Sunwell (Because by now the transfer of information would be far more efficient) these Grandsons and Daughters of Those who Turned South, make their way North, leaving behind nothing but bitter memories of hardship, and mistrust in the eyes of those they stole magical items from, for it seemed the vast majority who headed North, had prospered, to a degree, though suffered tragedy, and now called themselves Blood Elves. Time to meet the cousins and set up a permanent home.
That or there just always have been dark skinned Elves, end of story… Shrugs
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Ok, dude, for real, Blizz should hire you. Although… that wouldn’t quite be a good thing nowdays, would it?
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