I might roll one if this were available.
In response to OP, yeah, this should be an option.
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You mean, like humans did?
We are all, literally, descended from one female.
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Because it’s a world that has literal magic and fantastical things. Melanin doesn’t have to even be a thing in the WoW universe. You see this kind of high variation in a lot of house pets too, where you can have wildly different colors of fur. The races in WoW have had a lot of meddling done to them in various ways, from being literal creations of the Titans to having become addicted to magical energies to being from another freakin’ planet man. Stop trying to be so “realistic” with this, realism within fantasy universes often breaks down really fast unless you just use blatant double standards. What is important is whether the universe follows its own rules, which is called verisimilitude, and you can find a bunch of arguments on why a race could or could not have a particular skin color, but the creators of that game can change those aspects, especially when those explanations aren’t completely set in stone or meant to limit people, they were just meant to add more flavor and lore to the game to help people get into it.
please leave fantasy games out of politics. If you want a game that is up to date with current political agenda’s please play retail?
They don’t simply turn on a color in the character customizer, they will need to create new character models and render them for every class that they’ve added a new skin color too. Assuming its every race you want this done too. that’s a lot of class renders and we won’t get TBC till next year. We are here to play a fantasy game i am not green in real life with purple hair… get into the fantasy of the game? We have more than enough customized models.
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Trolls… Tauren/Yangouls/Taunka, and the list goes on…
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this bad example proves my exact point. The yaungol, taunka and tauren evolved differently BECAUSE they were seperated to different regions for the vast majority of their evolutionary history. The taunka adapted to the icy winds of northrend, the yaungol evolved for the peaks of kun lai as well as it’s warm fields and the tauren evolved for the grassy plains of mulgore.
Blood Elves have no said explanation for variance.
following this logic, the diversity still doesn’t make sense because belves were always described as fair-skinned and represented as such in-game and through cinematics.
You have a fundamental lack of understanding of evolution and how certain variances occur. Isolation to different climates / environments etc… is proven to cause variance over an extremely long period of time for survival reasons. Increased melanin is an adaption in order to endure high temperatures.
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lol
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I mean generally they probably would be, most people being a certain way does not mean that they all HAVE to be a certain way. You also completely ignored everything else I said, which pretty clearly indicates you’re not really looking to do anything but argue dumb points to try to “win” an argument. Not interested.
Well what do you want me to say. You tried to compare human skin to animal breeds and their consequential fur pattern variations and then pulled the ‘‘it’s just fantasy bro’’. Your other points were contradicted the second you said ‘‘all that matters’’ before making the point that I originally countered. Don’t get salty when you’re arguments get countered.
It’s cool to say not ALL have to be despite the fact that ALL so far HAVE been shown to all have IDENTICAL physical characteristics.
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And sparkles; you can’t have that option without sparkles
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Well to be fair the blood elves are only 10,000 years removed from the War of the Anicents. While this is time enough for some minor evolutionary changes it doesn’t explain the differences from the highborne elves (Queen Azshara’s people) to that of the blood elves as they are in TBC. So the explanation of them looking different due to the sunwell must be a thing as normal evolution wouldn’t explain it.
Also due to the incredibly long lifespan of elves in the warcraft universe evolution would realistically work even slower than it does in the real world.
Do you even understand the point or are you just going “Nuh uh?”
So far you have yet to provide anything of substance besides “So far we’ve only seen X”
I literally LOL’d. You’re one of those guys who keeps messing up the Wikipedia page aren’t you?
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Just assume he’s 100% right about evolution. There are still plenty of arguments for multi-colored races in a fantasy world, he just ignores them and claims to have already addressed them when he hasn’t done anything of the sort.
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Well I guess we’ve seen enough. In the average Classic WoW player’s perfect fantasy world, black people don’t exist. In fact, the existence of black people is a strong left leaning political statement that doesn’t belong in fiction.
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I’m guessing they pretend Black people don’t exist in real life.
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You can make black characters in Classic my pally is proof. You can also make black Taurens. The beef here is that people want to make black Blood Elves. I don’t really have a dog in this hunt but the people claiming there is no representation are being disengenous about it they just want black elves.
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I want my blood elf to look like Halle Berry. I could definitely stare at that all day long.
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What’s wrong with wanting a black elf?
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I didn’t say there was anything wrong with it. I said they were being disengenous about not having representation in the game currently.
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