Blue eyes for Thalassian elves being worked on as well?

[Soulebreaker-hyjal]

Agreed, purple would be cool. I personally want red for this character.

[Versath-bloodsail-buccaneers]

Daily reminder Blood Elves are High Elves

[Snowsong-fizzcrank]

If the they believe blue eyes are a visual theme that belongs to belves why they give golden eyes to you instead of blue? Because they know blue eyes are a feature to thalassian elves of the alliance.

Gold eyes are narratively only meant for light-wielding classes like Paladins, and Priests, they mentioned this several times. The fact that we got gold eyes isn’t an argument that they aren’t going to give us blue eyes, if anything it’s evidence that they want to reflect the type of magic the elves use in-game. Why make the Sunwell a fount of both Light and Arcane magic, or stress that many Blood elves still prefer the Arcane if the idea was that all Blood elves should only have gold eyes?

The thing is blue eyes aren’t just a feature for thalassian elves on the alliance, we’ve already seen blood elves with blue eyes, and Death Knights. This visual theme is not some hallmark to differentiate the groups, especially not now that the Sunwell is restored.

The devs don’t see high elves as a separate race from blood elves, they said that they aren’t different enough, but void elves are. They have their own theme and features that make them distinct from belves, more skin color options wouldn’t change that. That’s the reason why they said no to helves but consider add normal skin tones to void elves.

The skin color was one of the reasons they said no to High elves. Ion stressed this himself, that if players on the alliance want to play a “Fair-skinned, blonde haired, blue eyed elf, you should play a blood elf” Funny that they would list blue eyes as a blood elf theme, if they felt it was some iconic theme for the alliance.

[Renotarshil-malganis (Renotarshil)]

The High Elf race is notorious for all sorts of Eye Colors. Blue, Green, Purple, Yellow, Red.

The whole freaking crayola box.

[Zootopia-moon-guard]

i cant wait to see them!

[Zootopia-moon-guard]

oh, zaphorite spoilers if you didnt play wc3 tft expansion

‘high elves? spoilers guys blood elves pretty much high elves’

[Zaphorite-moon-guard (Zaphorite)]

Not anymore. Blood Elves are far from what High Elves used to be. Their culture and even appearance have changed drastically from what they once were. They have become their own race.

So sure, in the past (very very far back in the past) they were still able to pass off as High Elves. But now? They are Blood Elves, not even close to High Elves anymore.

[Soulebreaker-hyjal]

No we still are high elves. Politics don’t change race. We renamed ourselves to honor other fallen High Elves.

[Zootopia-moon-guard]

Not anymore. Blood Elves are far from what High Elves used to be. Their culture and even appearance have changed drastically from what they once were. They have become their own race.

So sure, in the past (very very far back in the past) they were still able to pass off as High Elves. But now? They are Blood Elves, not even close to High Elves anymore

TBC concept of blood elves was resolved with the restoration of the sunwell. the blood elves ARE the traditional elves now. as they should be, they are the high elves of quel’thalas proper after all

the high elves youre talking about are only high elves in the biological sense. they are utterly irrelevant in every single conceivable context

[Zaphorite-moon-guard (Zaphorite)]

It wasn’t just politics, appearance wise, Blood Elves don’t resemble High Elves anymore. They are more ruddier and paler, along with the fact of fel corruption giving them green eyes and holy energy giving them golden eyes.

They don’t look like High Elves anymore, and their culture, not just politics, have changed from the old High Elven ways. They no longer fly High Elven colors either, changing to reds and blacks to represent the Blood Elves, not High Elves.

They have turned into their own race.

[Soulebreaker-hyjal]

We do. Eyes have changed, but eyes also changed from green to gold and that didn’t change our race. I don’t look pale…

Our selection screen still calls us High Elves, Blizz still calls us High Elves. We just didn’t stick around the Alliance.

[Zaphorite-moon-guard (Zaphorite)]

You can literally read the wiki on Blood Elves and how it talks about they were High Elves but have evolved into their own race. I haven’t seen anywhere where Blizz calls Blood Elves High Elves. I have seen them say they were High Elves, but not are High Elves.

You might not personally look pale, but lore wise, Blood Elves are paler than High Elves.

[Soulebreaker-hyjal]

It never says anywhere that we evolved into our own race. We look no different. And pretending otherwise isn’t gonna put us back with Human potential.

[Zaphorite-moon-guard (Zaphorite)]

Read the section that says “Evolution from High Elves”. It says how your appearance is different and how you have evolved into your own race.

[Soulebreaker-hyjal]

No it literally does not.

[Zaphorite-moon-guard (Zaphorite)]

Le sigh…

Separated more by cultural differences than physiological ones, it has since been determined that they are, in fact, beginning to evolve into a separate race, due largely to their consumption of mana from primarily fel sources. This reliance on fel magic causes the eyes of blood elves to glow green with demonic fire. This readily available source of energy also tends to give blood elves a ruddier or paler look compared to their quel’dorei cousins. A blood elf can appear like a high elf bearing odd red tattoos across his or her face and arms. However, his or her hair and skin is much paler than that of a high elf, their eyes glint with a green light, and they wear blood-red robes. These represent signs of evolution from their high elven cousins, and it is believed that, with time, they may become as physically distant to high elves as satyrs are to night elves.

[Soulebreaker-hyjal]

This is off some random wiki and not said by Blizz anywhere.

[Zootopia-moon-guard]

, along with the fact of fel corruption giving them green eyes and holy energy giving them golden eyes

read what you just typed

everything you say is denial of lore from blood elves arent high elves to blood elves are fel corrupted. you just did the trifecta. even implied the sunwell has no arcane source

an ask CDEV session revealed, blood elf eye color reflects magical ambience, their eyes turned green because of their proximity to the fel, not because they were consuming it, and it will fade in time

the reason it will fade in time is they are feeding on a font of holy/arcane energy. and i suspect that time has finally come with advanced customization options where we will get the option for yellow, green and blue eyed blood elves

[Itlatn-illidan]

Soulebreaker got to it, but the passage you are quoting is fan made, and is utilizing the RPG as a reference which was deemed not canon by Blizzard.
The official word from Blizzard is that the blood elves and high elves are the exact same race.
Your name strikes me as familiar, I wonder if you’ve posted on this subject before.

[Zaphorite-moon-guard (Zaphorite)]

That is from the Monster Guide. The source book from the World of Warcraft RPG.