Yeah. I can see the Light affecting them. The Sunwell since BC is both holy and arcane. And, in favor of that: the Army of the Light has no individuals hat have been manipulated or altered by the Light in that way, even though they’re using a ship with literal beings made from Light on it. And the reason I’d give is that elves seem to have a much higher response to magic. Further, since Alleria was imprisoned on the Xenedar, she may have been isolated from the ”Light radiation”.
When the Zandalari empire joined the Horde so did the rest of troll kind.
We literally see all troll kind in Zandalar
Chromie took a maghar orc back in time, he fancied an elf.
Solved.
Also elves are just evolved trolls due to magic, if it can change that much of them, it can change skin tones too.
No they didn’t. All the other tribes are in Zandalar because it’s also essentially the Troll UN. Just because all the countries of the world have reps at the UN in New York doesn’t make them all American.
If that had been the case the other tribes would be Customization options for Zandalari, not Darkspear.
it actually makes a lot of sense. That is why dwarves are getting wildhammer dwarf options. This new starting zone is the lore starting zone which means you could come from anywhere. making sand trolls start in echos isles is bad. They now have changed how we start. When Zandalari trolls joined all troll kind joined. Just like how Dark iron and Wildhammer dwarves have been in the alliance for awhile but simply not a player character option.
Its just a tan.
Hey, if that’s the way you want to see it then great. Unless Blizz gives us some kind of official reason then we can all think whatever we want. If you want all the tribes to have come together with the Zandalari, then that’s how it happened to you.
I prefer my idea of Vol’Jin inspiring other Troll individuals to be better and they chose to leave their tribes to join something bigger.
Until Blizz says different neither of us are wrong and we believe what we choose.
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Nope. Doesn’t even have to be that.
Hello, I appreciate you putting thought into your assessment of how sand trolls, wildhammers, etc, are now part of the horde and alliance (whether they were before or not). I’ve been having difficulty understanding the way it works and don’t want to just accept my own idea (even though I have a great imagination, I wish it were stated in game). Your idea is interesting and simple yet meaningful enough.
I’m having difficulty understanding what customization options mean for us players, are we wildhammers or just bronzebeard who are pretending. Perhaps the new starting area is a way to incorporate any and all new races, maybe that is another poster’s forcing an explanation.
I sort of am sad that wildhammers aren’t their own unique clan/race. They could have a brief intro or small quest chain. Same for races that are mimicked or represented through cosmetics and customization, wish they are acknowledged somehow even in a small but significant way so that at least we know and their inclusion is meaningful and from a place of purpose and intent. I love the game and lore and history of the races so I’d like to be able to keep track of which races are here and which are skins for players.
does choosing yellow skin and bone tattoos put a 104 Sandtroll Druid when you hover over the name? 12 Wildhammer Druid if you’ve selected wildhammer-like visuals?
Thanks for readin’
I don’t think Blizz will ever give us an answer to this question in game. At best I think all we can hope for is if someone asks them in an interview and they answer it there, or maybe in a blog post.
All we can really do is like I said, come up with our own reasoning if we need too. And honestly I think we are all putting too much thought into it. Myself included. We should just be thinking of these as cool new options and not looking any farther into than that.
Sadly, I doubt it. Because they will be options for the Darkspear and Bronzebeard respectively, they will likely be labeled that in game. It would be really nice if Blizz at the very least gave us a nice long blog post giving us all the reasons and explanations for the new customizations, but I very much doubt there will be anything in game that does.
Give us black blood elves in TBC classic
Who cares? Holy crap this whole thing is so dumb. I’m not in the “no changes” camp but on this issue I am just so that this whole discussion can be bypassed on an arbitrary rule.
Never once during actual TBC did I hear skin color of any of the fictional races in a fantasy game brought up. Not once. Not positive nor negative, just not at all. Why is this all of a sudden an issue?
I made this an issue on the old forums and were hit by the same nay sayers back then. … that were crying that humans are only yt cause they’re from vykrul
I’m not the same as whoever you’re talking about. I’m not heavily into lore and wasn’t on the forums back in TBC, so if that type of conversation was common I wasn’t aware.
I don’t honestly care about the skin color of fictional races in a fantasy genre. That’s really all I was trying to say. It seems so trivial, I don’t get why it seems to be a hot topic in relation to a fantasy video game.
If you don’t care then why are you crying against it.
If gnome players want yellow mohwaks…I don’t play a gnome… it doesn’t effect me, so sure they can have it
I know right?! It’s as if some people dont get how lore is important to rollplayers.
Because I like discussing topics that others seem to care about. I wouldn’t have thought about this if left to my own devices. Therefore, when I saw it, I read it and formulated an opinion and posted. Now I’m here.
The stuff about yellow mohawks is missing the point of what I posted. I don’t care how a player customizes their character. I honestly rarely notice other player characters features because my attention is drawn to the armor and weapons. Also, that’s assuming the yellow mohawk is in the game to begin with.
The part I don’t understand is being so concerned with the skin color of a fictional character that one feels the need to make a post advocating for or against X,Y,Z skin color for X,Y,Z race. That’s what I was attempting to comment on.
As far as I can tell, there is no obvious motivation. People are cherry picking certain portions of lore and assuming a lot of weird stuff about everyone.
Just seems like an intentionally vague topic that will probably turn into a witch hunt.
Idk. I’m just rambling at this point. Cheers.
Ehh does this hurt the lore though?