All undead should be bald.
Friend of mine used to break it down super easy when it comes to race diversity in games:
- If a fantasy race has a human nose and a human skin colorization, then it’s a human-like race and not a real fantasy creature
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Agreed too that as well.
Can someone explain this gold eye/green eye thing to me
You mean the lore of it?
"TradeChat: We saw that there will be golden eyes for blood elves. Will there be some sort of quest to explain the lore of that, or it is just like “bam, you got yellow eyes if you want them now”?
Jeremy Feasel: So the quest to explain that actually happened way back in Sunwell Plateau when Anveena sacrificed herself to cleanse the Sunwell. That’s what caused the blood elves to finally lose their fel energy and gain these sort of golden eyes, and you’ll start to see that a little bit with some of the paladin and priest blood elf NPCs that are going to be showing up in Battle for Azeroth.
They’ll have the golden eyes, and then of course the customization option will be available for players because the storyline says that that’s where they should be now. But if you want to keep your green eyes because you’re a blood elf warlock and that feels right, you do you."
If you meant in terms of datamining, it comes down to a load of eye colour hues being found last night. Shades of green, teal and golden - and of course the much controversial blue.
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You have quite the way with words lol.
I meant more specifically the heterochromia eyemodel of one green eye and one gold eye
It kind of feels like such a transition would be a gradual and even process and not one side first then the other
I’d chalk it up to Alpha being right out the gate, personally. The eye overlay effects don’t seem matched to the right textures at this point.
Some of them - to me anyway - looked to be early drafts for blood elves to have the option for blind eyes. The fel/gold combo is an odd duck though.
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I said it in the Shadowlands thread, but the blues all seem a bit milky and/or have a twang to green. To me they all look like they’re transitioning away from being tainted by fel. If you look at actual high elf modela the eyws don’t match at all.
I thought that too, yeah.
I hope they actually confirm it rather than leaving it to headcanon, but it does make sense.
I’m glad I’ll finally be able to use the golden eyes, too - I liked the idea but I don’t like the faces they’re tied to, but since we can choose eye colour now it’s all good.
Tbh blood elves (and other races) getting diverse human skin tone customization, but no representation of said skin tones among major NPCs of said races, is the most token effort in promoting diversity in the setting imaginable. It’s doing the absolute bear minimum.
If you’re going to implement these diverse skin tones, do it thoroughly, and add (or change) major NPCs to represent them.
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Dark-skinned Rommath, when?
(with blue eyes)
Or even better! Halduron! 
It’s gotta be Liadrin and you know it
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Liadrin already has relatively tanned skin if I remember correctly, so making her a few tones darker to one of the new options wouldn’t be an issue for me
Then again, Halduron and Rommath don’t have unique models either. Either of those could work (probably Rommath, since he’s not as porcelain as Halduron)
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Fine, Liadrin it is!
when’re they gonna make anduin black
Didn’t you see the 8.3 cinematic? Anduin has already been blacked
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beating minorities in public doesn’t count
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Yes.
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Damn, night elves aren’t a real fantasy creature?
Also, I want purple eyes for my blood elf void priest.
They can still be added later on, though.
Changing a existence character into a dark-skinned one for the sake of it not seeing token would be… well they have a name for it if they suddenly make a dark-skinned character white to, so the reverse should count too.
So yes, I like the new skin colour additions, I will not like it if they suddenly change a existing major lore character to that skin tone, there’s more then enough options to add new characters with that skin colour in Shadowlands or later.
THey could start by changing some minor NPC’s here and there, and ofcourse make characters like Woo Ping actually asian now, and then slowly work their way up to either developing them for future stories or make a new major character with that skintone.
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