Those trolls are in a tribe. Different tribe like the Zandalari. Hence the race.
Blood elf is blood elf. The dark skin is cosmetic for us, the players. That’s all.
But since you want a lore for those dark skin elf’s. Then let’s say, they spend to much time in the sun. Or they were trying to find an area thats filled with mana like their original sunwell.
Hence they are dark skinned… So, they settled near the desert zones for they found the sun to give them mana by using an item similar to solar power plants.
Hence, they called themselves as Dark skinned elves or Dessert Elves or Dry land Elves or Diamond Elves… for they become rich and their pockets were filled with diamonds.
Void Elves are Dark Elves! Purple Dark! Just Blizzard failed and gave them white skin option for some reason. I have not seen a single NPC using this skin~ all are purple 
Dark Elves didn’t bathe in the sunwell regularly so their skin became dark like their Night Elf ancestors.
https://wow.gamepedia.com/Blood_elf
That’s all there is to it. If you really want to expand on it, boil it down to not all of the exiled elves being so easily bleached by the Sunwell as others.
Nope, if they have “Red Eyes” then they are dark elf’s…
That’s what I consider them to be…
Btw, I see too many Jesi in EU forums. Are you the same person or not?!?!?
Maybe~ Orc DK Zug Zug. Former Undead DK 
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Actually, in Day of the Dragon — by Richard A. Knaak it was said: Dark elves were elves, but not like high elves. They were beautiful in their own way, too, but it was a cold, haughty beauty, one that in the end repelled. The beauty of the dark elves was said to be almost as chill as Deathwing’s voice, if not colder. They were lesser beings with minute lifespans and quick to rashness, plunging into what was believed too great a risk. In their folly, they brought demons
The now non-canon RPg buks mentions them too:
Early concept maps show “dark elf lands” in northeastern Kalimdor near Mount Hyjal. A race is said to have spoken a fourth elven dialect
Or as they said, Dark elves may be a name given to night elves through the lens of history and memory of the cruel and corrupt Highborne.
Yep~ Was Belf before race change into undead Someone should confiscate my credit card.
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I’ll give it a go!
After the defeat in Quel’Danas and the failure to bring Kil’jaeden to Azeroth.
The few surviving Shadowsword manage to make it back to Outland.
They tell the rest of the felblood elves about their failure to summon Kil’jaeden and that Kael’thas has fallen.
But they also mention that the Sunwell has been restored, but its different, now both arcane and holy energies swirl in the well.
Many of them were shocked, even after years of consuming fel energies, they still remember the sunwell and they miss it.
But they can not return, they are twisted versions of what they once was.
A few years later and the legion has been defeated.
Rumors spread among the felblood elves that a Naaru tried to cleanse Illidan off his demonic corruption, but Illidan resisted and destroyed it.
They started wondering if it was even possible to heal this corruption?
They speculated, would perhaps the holy energies that now resides in the sunwell be powerful enough heal their demonic corruption and rid them off this addiction? Could they get the chance to redeem themselves?
They don’t have a choice but to try, without the legion their source of fel magic is dwindling. They decide to seek contact with the blood elves at Falcon Watch.
First contact was rough, after awhile they managed to negotiate and a messenger was sent to Silvermoon to tell Lor’themar about the events that had taken place.
Lor’themar understandably refused at first, but was convinced by Thalyssra to atleast give them a chance, maybe there is a way to help them.
Fast forward, Lor’themar and Thalyssra help the felblood elves with the power of the sunwell and they are rid of their demonic corruption, their horns and wings falling off and their scars are healed.
Their darker skin still remains, though now it has a more healthy colour instead of the demonic red and dark grey.
This is the best I can do atm.
Which was pretty much my first thought…
Oooohh the Daedra have found their way to Azeroth… Can we expect an Azurian faction?
The Daedra and their counterpart the Aedra are neither demons nor gods respectively. The confusion stems from the fact the Daedra cannot truly be “killed”, if the husk their spirit is inhabiting is somehow destroyed it returns to Oblivion where it finds it’s ways into the Waters until such time it finds a new host, which in itself is a curse to them, as the Daedra cannot create a new host to inhabit. They can only change the host they are inhabiting, and even then it takes a very skilled conjurer with the sufficient willpower to both complete the summoning ritual and to be able to dominate the Daedric summon to their will. The vast majority if not all the Daedric entities wandering Tamriel have been summoned by a conjurer who couldn’t control them and were quickly killed by their own summon.
It also explains why when a Daedric Prince, again the term “Prince” is deliberately ambigous, as is especially noted when it comes to Boethiah, is somehow out of their Sphere they are far weaker and highly vulnerable. Very few Daedric princes play an active role in Tamriel, they prefer manipulation behind the scenes, most notable being Sheogorath, Molag Bal, Mephala and Vaermina… When they do “invade”, such as the Oblivion gate Crisis, they are usually dispatched back to Oblivion pretty quickly.
There are more powerful Princes than others, but the Daedra are more interested in the never ending wars of Oblivion than the matters of Tamriel or indeed Azeroth if they found their way there.
Im pretty sure they came from twitter lmao
So it’s fine that we have found a deep purple nightborne elves in legion 7.0 but we cannot find dark skinned elves in 9.0?
SL isn’t out yet so how do you know they aren’t in the planned new lore?
One day Ogres wanted to eat Elves .
So Ogres ask Nomi to cook Elves
You know what happen next.
(No offense, Nomi is responsible from every thing that happen to Azeroth)
Give me a break, they’re obviously not going to make a story as to why there’s darker elves.
They wouldn’t, it’s an entirely different universe with an entirely different lore
Why are people even using ESO lore as an arguement in wow lore in this thread? (Not just you)
People are so offended by asian faced humans and dark elfs.
Well, in general people are affraid of lore expanding it seems.
Genes can mutate, human genes passed down, sun-magic making them resistant to the suns of Uldum.
Be creative
The problem is that the lore isn’t being expanded to match this at all and without a lore explanation this change means that lore is no longer the highest authority for storytelling
People aren’t afraid of changing lore, if anything they’re demanding it to explain what is being added.
The fact that it isn’t being added also feels like a missed opportunity in and of itself
Also if you’re gonna use the gene arguement, atleast use it where it makes sense, genes do not change within a single generation and there is nothing to really trigger humanlike dark skin evolutionary speaking about the blood elves home
I’m willing to accept anything that isn’t ‘pretend like they were always there’ but that is at this point in time the only thing we can interpret
I do not oppose these choices, I didn’t oppose them for humans and other titanforged creatures because they all share geneology and Asian/Black humans were in Vanilla until removed with Cata, but the lore as it stands now has 0 explanation for darker elves that aren’t Night Elves, Nightbourne or Void Elves, most opponents just want the lore to expand because what’s stopping them from idk, reintroducing N’zoth as lightforged without any prior explanation? (Exagerated example)
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