So here’s the thing: Calia’s supposed be something like a “Lightforged Undead”, right? Like, half Light half Undead.
So after seeing her new model, my question is: why is her eye glow silver/white instead of gold? Does this make sense?
She only got second place.
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Because she isn’t just light, she’s necromancy, too I guess.
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A better question might be, why do Forsaken eyes glow gold, when the Light had nothing to do with their method of being raised?
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It’s silly to even try to dissect this. Her eye color is an aesthetic decision, not a DEEPLORE decision.
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It varies per forsaken. Dark rangers have red eyes, some forsaken have blue eyes(not dks).
Probably just a rule of cool thing.
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I’m thinking the same. Like High Elves and blue eyes. There’s no reason you wouldn’t see some Blood Elves with blue eyes since the real difference is political. I mean, Alleria had green eyes in the old novels. The only reason High Elves all have blue eyes and Blood Elves all have green and gold eyes is for some measure of visual distinction.
Granted Calia is plenty visually distinct from Forsaken as is, but considering how glowing eyes always seem to play into some kind of cosmic power, that’s probably why hers are different, so you see those white/silver eyes and go, “Oh this is a light-raised undead.”
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I disagree. The color of her eye glow wasn’t randomly chosen, like the devs didn’t go all “hey, let’s make her eye glow silver, that’d be cool” - there’s a reason behind it, and I want to know it.
Thinking that Blizzard actually has reasons for some details instead of simply going for the rule of cool is cute.
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Huh Forsaken do have gold eyes. Weird, shouldn’t they be blue?
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The lore when they were made for the gold eyes was very lose likely didnt think of it.
Pretty simple. They want to give her a fairly distinct coloration that sets her apart from the normal forsaken, who come into undeath a very different way than she did. Eye glow is a fairly simple color distinction technique to tip the audience off whats going on. It is the same reason death knights all uniformly have glowing blue eyes and dark rangers have red.
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Thats not the case. Everything with glowy eyes has a reason for it.
Zandalari? They are closer to the loa.
Blood elves? The magic they absorb.
Dark iron? Imbued with lava.
Death knights? Arthas raised them.
The devs have gone through the effort to explain why they have glowy eyes. Along with every other humanoid with glowy eyes. So it’s obviously something they do with more thought than “it’s aesthetic”.
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I assume it’s to make the distinction that she’s “the first” or the leader. Kinda like how Draenei prophets have a symbol over their head.
From what I understand, the naaru/ the light reallllyyy wanted to raise Calia back to life. She’s chosen for something. Different colored eyes than the other lightforged might mean that.
That is not completely true.
Also;
Zandalari have no canon reason to have blue eyes as long as I know , I have no idea where you got that they being closer to the loa is a reason, is there a source on that? Death knights just have the eyes because of necromancy in general, there are several forsaken with blue eyes.
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I don’t quite understand what you’re getting at.
Literally all undead have glowing eyes. This thread isn’t about the presence or the absence of the glow, it’s nit-picking the precise coloration.
And even the argument you are making is very cherry-picky - the ordinary wolves in Draenor have glowing eyes.
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My bad, as far as I can tell there is no confirmation. No other troll has glowing eyes. Zandalar is the biggest place of loa worship, so it’s assumed they have the loas blessing. Which would explain the blue eyes. Nothing confirmed though.
Point is, they have it for a reason. They’re undead, they have glowing eyes. Dark rangers specifically have red. The vampire vrykrul have red eyes. Why? Idk, but that’s the theme.
You’re saying it’s silly to discuss (or dissect) why her eyes are white. I don’t think it’s silly. There’s a point to it. Thus far, lightforged beings usually have yellow eyes. She has white. Why? That’s what the thread is discussing.
Which is what I pointed out with the elves. Green eyes= fel magic. Yellow=holy. Those eye colors are different for a reason.
My statement is broad but I never referred to animal eyes. I’m sure there’s a thousand creatures that have glowing eyes just because “it’s cool”.
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I never got why people got so worked up over the magic=color thing. Sure, it holds true with most forms of magic we see, especially recently, but it’s never been strictly true.
Aside from that, as others in the thread have already said, it doesn’t really matter. Undead’s eye glow doesn’t seem to matter so much and is just done for a cool design.
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glowing eyes are everywhere in modern blizzard games
even uther has them in hots
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I think you’re both kind of right. Vast majority of the time, color is important and signifies a certain type of magic, but they do sometimes (I think rarely) stray off course. Good example is fel, which is virtually always green and always has been. Even to the point where orc skin turn green because of fel. Yet, you get the weird one-off instance, like the red orcs where they got TOO much fel. Which still doesn’t make much sense in my head, but it is what it is.
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