Not always. Go look at the Sunwell. Some of those are red, but others are not, they’re more of a grey.
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Half-elves I guess!
well actually, no
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They have more melanin in their skin. That’s it. That’s literally it. Grow up.
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Lets give it a fantasy name.
Melf-anin.
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one vowel change away from “nice”
Sun and Fire is so yesterday, Shadow and Frost is where its at.
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Gods dammit, it took me a second to get that.
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There have been a ton of things added to lore that “just happen” with little to no explanation and most people do not complain.
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Basically the lore of color boils down to this generally: Night elves are an analogous cool color theme, like night. The nightborne are nightier night elves who rolled in the void well and are dark cool colors.
Thalassian elves are generally (but not always) warm color themes. Bronzes, tans, etc. Darker versions of these are warm browns.
Void Elves rolled in the void and turned purple.
Felblood elves rolled in fel and turned crimson red, pastel blue (!), and grey. No purple.
Purple is a night/void/cool color.
Clearly elves are genetically unstable.
The slightest change in the environment and you guys go all weird like.
I’m surprised we don’t have elves that are elemental like fire or ice. Imagine when they roll too much they start to become that element.
My Reth’dorei (fire elf) would be so flaming.
Kind of like a certain type of dwarves…
You are trying way too hard to persevere the RPG elements of the Warcraft lore that died off long ago, but I commend the efforts, but I hope they are not meant in a racist way.
Elves are eevees confirmed.
Edit: druids of the flame = fire-rolled
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It’s true they really are.
You could have said the same thing about Orcs prior to TBC. Before Mag’har Orcs showed up Orcs were just green. Then TBC happened and it was established that the green skin was caused by fel taint.
Actually if anyone would be the “eevee” of WoW, it would be the trolls, considering all the elves came from them.
I’ll just be blunt, as a black person (yes i checked), i just see this as utterly empty tokenism if they’re not going to put any real effort into explaining in a way as clear as the source material for why blood elves look the way they do.
I think all games that feature player customization should be accommodating, but should also take the time to properly flesh out the option in lore and history. Blizz clearly still cares about the lore of the game with the class and race restrictions in the game already. And until those are gone i can’t see this and anything more then a token gesture. A kinda gross one.
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The people getting morally outraged that Blizz has increased character customisation are picking the wrong hill to die on. It’s not some huge egregious lore retcon to say “Hey darker skin Blood Elves exist”.
More varied skin colours are something that has been requested for ages, and WoW has been notoriously lacking in character creation options.
More customisation is good.
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