actually if we go all the way back to the very beginning of this topic to the same lore I was originally quoting, blood elves actually did get a little darker from fel energy (or, more accurately, their bodies lost the glow they had as high elves) which is why playable blood elves have some more rosy skintones, while there’s no high elf NPC (at least that I can recall off the top of my head) that has skin darker than “two steps under pale white”
weird. should all be deep dark brown then cause they are steeped in it on swp
the felblood i mean
seems like fel just works in a nonsensical rainbow pattern
you go from brown (dark) to green (light) to red (light) to redder (dark)
or from pale to peach to soot black (rip Kael’thas) to red…?
sun elf!
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oh god my eyes what am I looking at
i screenshotted a felblood elf while she was attacking in swp. then i…modified it. lol trying to make her glow.
it’s so…bright
woot. success. haha. she’s a sun elf.
We need black sun elves.
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black sun during palpatine’s reign
In all fantasy type games involving elf skin types, dark areas had dark skinned Elves, underground more specifically, or devoid of the sun.
When I think “reflected of sun/fire” I think LIGHT colors, not dark colors.
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In before someone applies a Human lens to an Elf (not a human) race regarding how skin colors worked.
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Isn’t that… Racist???
Oh please, I’m not saying the can’t, just going by how blizzard had it that this whole topic has been about. The only Dark Elf race that I know of that is dark skinned but not underground or in an area that isn’t devoid of the sun, is the Dark Elves in the Elder Scrolls series. But They also have Orcs being a sub type of Elf also.
Seriously though, you need to stop reading to into something. BUT, in northern STV, you have most humans in there that are darker skinned. So maybe, just maybe, it has something to do with geography. The BE/HE are in a very northern area.
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That’s the point. Humans and Elves are different. The way they are…are different. For humans prolonged exposure to the sun over generations leads to darker skin. For elves, the differences are Night and Day (literally)
interesting, when i think of elves, its always woodsy nature peeps, deep green forests with leafy flowery decorative bits. dark elves never made sense to me, as i couldnt imagine woodsy nature peeps, elves, preferring to live underground in more of a dwarven habitat. when i think of sun/fire i think elementals not elves. 
When I think of elves I think of the north pole and santa
hehe
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Oh look all light skinned aswell 
Depends on how you look at it, dark elves have fairer skin tone options be default. The only exception to this has been the Blood Elves. I personally assumed it had something to do with the wells they fed on. Like The Moonwell for Highborne, it makes there skin “blue” because arcane is usually represented as a blue/white combination. So in retrospec, you can tie an elves “geography” by the mana they consume.
This is my perspective on how the elves skin-color worked for wow.
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