Personally I’m hoping for the black hair color seen on Void Elf NPCs that isn’t available for players for some reason
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White hair colors would also be nice with VE
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A model of either would be interesting. Alliance does how ever do lack a “skinny” race too.
dark hair is the norm. i think they just mean as far as elves go, which traditionally have been fair skinned and fair haired, unless dark elves. in everquest, they had wood elves, high elves, half elves and dark elves. the wood/high/half elves had the full spectrum of non dyed hair colors, whereas the dark elves had grey, white or black hair colors.
Any sign of those dark ranger skintones and eyes?
Farstrider tattoos?
Runic tattoos?
Scars even?
Come on blizz!
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None at all, looks like we’re getting nothing of the sort. It’s a damn shame…
So little changes for male belfs, and even the female belfs only get jewelry really.
A damn shame indeed.
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what is suspicious is that some call blond hair “normal color” implying that dark color is not “normal”. that’s suspicious
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normal color for traditional elves. otherwise, blonde is a regressive trait seen in a minority of the global population.
edit: amongst regressive trait hair colors, red is the rarest, with blonde being the norm of regressive trait hair colors, and both blondes, light browns and reds, all being in the minority vs. dark hair colors.
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Wonder if we will ever get a Drow type in WoW.
I guess Nightborne would be the closest but still doesn’t really fit the bill.
Maybe the San’layn have gone underground and taken over a large part of the Forgotten Kingdom and allied with the remaining Nerubians?
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If the Germans had won the war, blonde would be the common color, that’s why they are suspicious that people all the time call blonde normal only when dark is also normal. I have no proof but I suspect they are the same ones who complain about black skin color
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I doubt it, since Night Elves were originally conceived as the Warcraft spin on dark elves.
GameSpot: When did you decide to develop a “dark elf” race for Warcraft III?
Rob Pardo: Pretty early [in development].
GS: And how are the night elves different from the gamer’s stereotype of a dark elf?
RP: It’s kind of funny. Back when we were discussing races, we had fights over whether or not dwarves and elves should be [their own] races. We could never get a majority of the team to [agree] to do elves as a race per se. But then somebody suggested the idea of doing dark elves. We all thought that would be kind of cool, but none of us wanted to do traditional “drow.” So we took the best of wood elves and the best of dark elves and made them into one race.
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which is odd since hitler had dark hair. lol
nightborne seem very drow like. they even have a variant spider version - the faldorei.
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I cannot explain how much it bothers me that no one remembers that we were supposed to be the Dark Elf of wow…
Bothers me even more how terribly blizz has butchered this over the years.
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Mate, elves have been depicted from the time of Tolkien as having predominantly blonde hair. Blonde hair is normal for elves. Don’t make this some weird, crypto-fascist fever dream.
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Since Nightborne are a spin off of Night Elves that go away from the wood elf themes, this makes perfect sense.
I love Fal’dorei, not gonna lie.
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Spider Elves! Rise Spider Empire!
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Nightborne are pretty traditional high elves tbh.
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In culture, yes. But they’re probably the closest visual we’ll get to Drow.
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