Why are they called Faceless Ones when they clearly have a face?
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The original model didn’t have a face.
They’ve had faces since WC3 
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The model they had in Wrath really didn’t have a face, though. That pic shows eyes, but can you really say it has a face?
I guess some folks don’t consider a bunch of tentacles to be a real face.
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They have a head with two eyes, a really long nose and I imagine they have a mouth hidden behind the nose.
Also their current model somehow has ear hair 
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Look if they are playeable someday?.
Faceless one playable allied race confirmed for 11.1.7.
Pareidolia.
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You don’t even know if those things are eyes
The original model from WoW was definitely designed to be ‘faceless’. I didn’t even know it actually had ‘eyes’ until just now when I went looking to find a reference image. 
You can barely see them just above the base of the ‘nose’.
Would love that as a battle pet.
It so cute! 
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So change the name after giving it a model with a face. Lol
“Charge it to what? Pieces of whatever we happen to have in out pocket at the time? Oh yeah, real piratey.”
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There’s a pet Faceless. It doesn’t look like that one, but it’s still cute.
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Faceless ones remind me of elephants.
Tiny eyes, long noses, hidden mouth.
I think it was definitely inspired by elephants, yeah. After all, the artists would have needed some sort of reference to draw something that, by definition, should have a form incomprehensible to our perceptions. Bit of a paradox there, but we’ve settled on ‘give it tentacles, eyes, and/or mouths in weird places’ to visualize eldritch creatures. 
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If you call that a face, I’d hate to see your dating pool.
I would speculate that they also got some influence from Mind Flayers…
I think you meant Babar.
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