People recommending a switch of eye color base on spec is just one facet of the bigger over-all want, which is additional customization options.
Like it or not, with the eye colors, DKs are the only class that limit your available customizations rather than give additional. - Being a demon hunter doesnât prevent you from putting leaves and druid tattoos on your elf instead of the regulars, just on account of âdemon hunter must have fel and horns and stuffâ.
Reverting back to Lady Alistra then. - You open up her abilities, because as an NPC sheâs coded to have certain abilities that sheâs able to cast. Those are Anti-Magic Shell, Corpse Explosion, Death and Decay, Death Coil, Degeneration, Plague Strike and âOpen Shadow Portalâ.
For one, those abilities are Death Knight abilities, and when she was made, she was deliberately given the red eyes skin. - The armor she wears is the typical/classic veteran DK armor, the same set that your character was given pieces of when advancing from initiate to a full fledged death knight.
Remember also that back then, eye color wasnât a separate thing but rather tied to skin color, and before you say âsystem limitationâ, they deliberately gave her the red eyes skin rather than one of the DK skins that have blue eyes.
Back then to an earlier argument you had, âblood spec artwork is invalid because thatâs monochromeâ, but then you yourself point out that in the unholy spec artwork, the character actually has blue eyes. And it also has an orange glowing weapon. - So thereâs no rule mandating them to be monochrome. By your own admission. - Meaning that making the eyes red on that death knight was, again, a deliberate choice.
Also, the original death knight âhorsemanâ models, like Salanar the Horseman, those have green eyes. - Teron Gorefiend, first death knight (yes, I know, first gen, so technically more a proto-lich than a death knight by our modern understanding) - Alas, he had yellow eyes. Both in model and in artwork.
And letâs not even get started on all the different pieces of armor, death knight tier sets specifically, that deliberately obstruct the modelâs eye color to swap it out to a red or a green or a yellow or a purple.
Regardless, thereâs no place in the lore that says Death Knights MUST have blue glowing eyes. If there is, all you need to do is find it and quote it and this whole thread is going to shut up. But you havenât.
Instead all youâve done is be a noxious, indolent, stubborn troll making use of double standard arguments to suit your own narrative which is born of nothing other than a fanon that all Death Knights got blue eyes because thatâs how you always imagined them.
But hey, letâs give the benefit of the doubt hereâŚ
Hypothetically. If you were right⌠IF⌠Which you arenât. But if you wereâŚ
Then it still wouldnât hold any weight in the argument, since Blizzard have taken a steaming dump on their own lore in the past for the sake of allowing customizations and class-race combinations, simply for the sake of⌠Itâs fun. And it doesnât hurt anyone. Besides giving people like you an aneurysm. Which honestly is the second best thing after drinking mug-fulls of banned cheater tears.
Case and point: They allowed Lightforged Draenei to become warlocks. - With even an NPC showing itâs a canon and deliberate thing, not just a âflavorâ like with worgen harvest witches or tauren sunwalkers as paladins.
Oh, and yeah, hahaha⌠By the way. That reminds me⌠- Class choice isnât always 100% representative and a matter of strict adherence between the gameplay mechanics and the lore. - Hunters embody dark rangers just as much as they do spear-chucking troll headhunters or gilnean gunsmith. - Druids embody anything from actual druids to witches using wicker swamp-witch powers to loa priests turning into dinosaur avatars of their demigods. - Paladins range from âsilver hand knightâ to âtribal tauren who really digs the sunâ to âmagic vampire that sucks on the life-blood of a cosmic crystal singing wind chime.â
Similarly Death Knights can also be used to embody reanimated takes on other classes, and could be used to play⌠yâknow⌠a sanâlayn. - Want a concrete example of this? Two of the death knights brought by Bolvar to Oribos are charged with maintaining the portals to the capital cities, the human one that holds the portal to Stormwind even mentions that heâs a bit rusty since he hasnât been opening portals since back when he was alive. - Since he was a mage before being reanimated.
Oh, and I donât know why people donât bring this one up. - Whitemane once raised didnât have any eye glow at all, she just has the regular non-glowing âcultistâ eyes. - If you zoom in on those, theyâre a very pale lavender pink. Same case with Thassarian, and your âsystem limitationâ argument goes out the window the moment you realize that nowadays Blizzâs engine allows eyes to be separate models/textures from the face and skin color like they once were. - This has been the case since BfA.
And this isnât even getting into the whole angle of âDK abilities are just a combination of necromancy, blood magic and ice magic of likely arcane nature, channeled through the means of pre-scribed runes rather than somatic castingâ - Which means that a living being could very well use the same powers a death knight does, or a plain skeleton if raised could be taught, provided they were sufficiently intelligent, and the only other defining characteristic of death knights of Acherus being that the Lich King tortured their souls and cursed them with the dark hunger, a need to inflict pain upon others, but which has absolutely no bearing or influence on the kinds of weapons or magic that they use.
Rune magic was just an efficient means to train fighters, shock troopers, to use blood magic, necromancy and arcane that would otherwise take years to master, and put it in the hands of hundreds of troops meant to be âeliteâ, but ultimately expendable. And the Lich King didnât even invent it, he learned it from the Vrykul, who were very much alive when using it long before the Lich King got planted into Northrend.
And hell, on the whole note of ânot everyone in Acherus is a death knightâ, even AmalâThazad, the lich, is shown in Legion when you have him as a companion, to fight with dual wielded runeblades like a frost death knight.
Your whole angle of âdeath knight trainer =/= death knightâ is equivalent to saying you can be a driving instructor even though you donât have a license. Or any variant of âyou can teach something that you never studiedâ. You can only train people in fields youâre proficient in. - And this is also the biggest argument why you shouldnât have a word to say in lore debates, according to what I read in this thread.
Peace.