hi rose 
i was the biggest proponent for dark skin tones being added. dunno if you remember way back in the early helf allied race debates, i suggested the devs could do something like this:
thousands of years before arthas invaded quel’thalas, 2 ships of farstriders set sail from the coast, to survey the surrounding islands. a storm blew them off course and they ship wrecked on an uncharted island, apparently a remnant of the troll empire.
the farstriders found several abandoned ziggurats and eventually a cache of mana laced artifacts with instructions on how to tap them for magic. this is how illidan learned the method, from an ancient troll temple, which he later would teach the blood elves.
anyway, the shipwrecked farstriders were considered lost at sea. all records of their fated journey were destroyed during the creation of the dead scar, where it pierced the walls of silvermoon and destroyed the library of the quel’dorei. they continued on for generation after generation on the uncharted island, eventually developing darker and darker skin.
then one day, while searching for the dragon isles, wrathion’s crew found the shipwrecked group. they had survived for thousands of years, sated their magical addictions and withdrawal from the sunwell and leylines of quel’thalas, what little they had, with the troll artifacts. and now they were going to be reunited with their quel’dorei kin.
it fell upon wrathion to catch them up to the whereabouts of the quel’dorei and the schism that developed between them and the sindorei. shocked that their ancestors would join forces with trolls, they asked to be returned to the safety of the quel’dorei, now members of the alliance.
tada, actual high elves, with various levels of skin color, who dont know the nuances of the making of the sindorei but remember vividly being killed by trolls
oh yeah. hehehe. had blizz went with something like that, the debates, omy the debates.
posting Batman!
