In real life, sure. In WoW, there’s nothing to suggest this is the case. In fact, I’d say it’s more the opposite, with humans of all sorts of skin colours originating from relatively similar climates: those of the Seven Kingdoms.
It’s not very honest to apply real world biology to humans, but not to dwarves/elves/gnomes. None of them have evolved “naturally”, all are the results of magic.
Human evolution on Azeroth moves Titan-forged -> Vrykul -> Human. Applying “real world logic” isn’t accurate.
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The whole “humans changed skin to adapt to environments” idea also has no place in wow. Humans evolved exclusively from Vrykul within the Eastern Kingdoms; the furthest south they went is Westfall, seeing as Stranglethorn has no associated human kingdom. WoW humans have different skin tones for the same reason as orcs and night elves; they just do.
The “Tanaris humans”, or Wastewanderers, also show no sign of this. The majority are equal parts white/tan in-game as they are dark, showing that even tanaris has no bearing on human skin.
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No where in chronicles does it say that High elves turned white because of magic. It says their skin lost it’s purple hue after being separated from the well of eternity.
Your skin losing it’s purple hue does not by default make it white.
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wow i haven’t checked this in a couple of days an aibury really is a sad little creep jfc
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Even if Chronicles did specifically say so, it wouldn’t be the first time lore was retconned either. Given the absolute lack of impact it would have on anything save aesthetics, it wouldn’t be anywhere near a major retcon either.
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True. The High Elves have had a pale-reddish colour ever since they first came about. They have had that for the past 10000 years they have existed, every single prominent, High Elven and Blood Elven figure had a pale-reddish colour to them.
Every official art released, in any shape and form be it drawn or other video games, shows High Elves and Blood Elves with a pale-reddish colour. When Blood Elves came along a slightly darker reddish colour came to exist, it was explained to be because of fel exposure which is perfectly fitting with the concept of fel exposure that we learned.
No, my opinion is that Blood Elves should not have the absolut dark skin. Instead blizzard should remove it, keep the more brownish-red colours and add some more fel-reddish colours, kinda close to the felblood elf skins that we saw back in TBC, but not entirely felblood elf like. Hell, maybe even add small markings of demonic traits on the skin, not the same extend as with the demon hunters, but just small ones.
I don’t see why one would exclude the other. More options is a good thing.
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Why should PoC have to settle for being fel corrupted? Why is a dark skinned elf so out of your extension of disbelief that Blizzard has to do an a$$pull piece of lore to justify it? Did you care this much about orcs getting new skin colours? There’s no lore reason behind the difference between pale shadowmoons Vs. dark bleeding hollow.
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It is also my opinion that lore should adhere to, and obey rules as much as it possibly can. Adding the absolute dark skinned is not a necessity, not even for customization options, as there are many other option that could have been added that is more fit for the Blood Elven race.
More options is a good thing, provided it is reasonable. Warpaints would be reasonable, the jewelery is reasonable. Darker-reddish skin colours even the red-brownish skin colours are reasonable.
Honestly, it is probably less “lore friendly” to have blood elf skin options that are distinctly fel-tainted. The Blood Elves helped kill most of the Felblood Elves after Kael’thas had his Sunfury start chugging demon blood and tried to destroy the world (and, worse, the Sunwell).
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Why should non-PoCs have to settle for an elf that is not caucasian?
Let me tell you a little about the orcs.
At first we though they were only green, WC1, WC2.
Then we learned that they could be red, WC3, we also learned that neither green nor red was their original colour.
Cue TBC, we learn that their original colour is brown, but those were only the Warsong orcs we saw.
See where I am going with this?
They don’t have to. There are plenty of light-skinned options already. Adding dark-skins only offer more customisation for everyone.
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Someone with art privileges post this:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVPqPFgUMAAARwZ?format=jpg&name=large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVPqP5TU0AEuY98?format=jpg&name=large
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Hardly.
Blood Elf warlocks exist. A constant exposure to fel. We know that exposure to fel resulted in a dark-reddish colour, and more fel meant darker red as we saw with the Felblood elves.
I was saying closing in on the Felblood elf skintone, not the felblood elf skintones. Felblood elves are, afterall, the result of demon blood swallowing.
But as noted above, it is not at all beyond the realms of plausibility in accordance with lore.
Which rules are those?
Neither is some elves having skin tones that are darker than others. There’s zero lore that contradicts this; yes, elves have always been portrayed as light skinned, no one is denying that, but there’s no lore that suggests this is because of X or Y.
Blizzard didn’t design them with “pale” in mind, they did so with “humanoid” in mind. Therefore, it makes sense that they can also have a bit more melanin. I much prefer this interpretation as opposed to forcing PoC, who have historically been neglected in this setting, have to consume fel in order to have an elf that remotely resonates with them.
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There’s already an instance of a dark skinned elf within the lore and people keep overlooking that.
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It doesn’t fit their narrative.
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Poor Telaryn going ignored. 
