Every Elf who died there was a High Elf. It was the survivors who took the Blood Elf name, not the dead - as you so rightly point out.
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You would be hard pressed to find a blue eyed blood elf in the Burning Crusade, at that that point it would make very little sense how he would have blue eyes while their city was still being supported, and radiated with fel magic.
Didnât most of the Alliance support Garithos? Between that and the night elves actively sabotaging them, the blood elves were probably too busy trying to avoid being wiped out by the Alliance to ask for their help.
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Donât come at me with this one now govânah.
Which is why Iâm guiding myself by the tooltip.
If I remember correctly we have a similar situation with this⌠uh⌠portal trainer?
However, Iâm still not holding my breath for that an explanation.
If he happens to be one of the earliest examples of a high elf going back home, thatâs good (and Câthulu knows Iâd be forever thankful if blizz ever confirms this), until then, the tooltip is all we got.
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Iâd be hard pressed to find an orc with a nose ring in bc too, but thatâs nothing new. Thereâs no evidence to suggest blue eyed blood elves are a new thing. If I had to guess Iâd assume former high elves would have been returning to their home from day 1.
Yes, by that time Garithos was leading what was left of the Lordaeron Alliance - and we know how highly he valued the elves who assisted them. 
Night Elves? Well yeah, immediately post-Scourge was not our proudest moment to be sure.
(I still think Tyrande and Malfurion were too soft-hearted after Ashenvale - but then if they hadnât been you wouldnât have any Blood Elves in the Horde. Then again, we wouldnât have people wanting playable High ElvesâŚbecause there wouldnât have been any )
I still think that Garithos wasnât the worst thing about that ordeal in my eyes, but the sheeple at Dalaran who had been lead by Kaelâthas following along.
What do you mean? Releasing Illidan to make memes was a great idea.
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But they can. Even if theyâre stupid, blue/green is no longer a divide.
The tooltip doesnât call him a Blood elf though, only a level 30 humanoid, same goes for Lanesh, and our new portal trainer.
And I think there was a possibility for them to go into further detail on this before the alliance blue eye rage ensued, but now I fear it might be considered too controversial.
Different dev teams too.
By nice man, Illidaddy turning that deranged wind chime into broken shards of glass on the floor was some of the best WoW Meme-fuel in the history of the game. 
The game needed him and Iâm still waiting for him to show up in the Shadowlands.
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And water is wet.
But thatâs not the point.
Ok, give me a minute⌠or a few considering how slow my loading screens are.
Disagree. If the question is whether Lanesh is a blood elf because of his eyes and that area of division no longer exists (if it ever did at all) then the question is moot.
That wasnât why I brought him up.
Is the central theme to orcs their noserings? Like how the central theme for Blood elves in the Burning Crusade was their use of Fel magic? The game even emphasizes that all Blood elves were radiated with the fel. From most pious of priests or most outdoorsy of Farstriders.
Considering that blue eyes were deliberately used to differentiate Blood elves from High elves in the Burning Crusade, itâd be pretty far fetched to think he was intended to be a Blood elf.
Well we havenât really gotten an explaination for why Blood elves have blue eyes yet, so thereâs still some debate.
Welp, it seems you are right and his only labeling is in the wiki since him and every other NPC simply appear as Shattered sun Offensive⌠and I see youâre checking too because youâre afk right in front of me 
I would say blood elvesâ relationship with fel magic was no more prominent than orcish nose rings were as far as themes go. Their main story in bc was their realisation that Kael was kind of a prick for using it and that the Naaru were kind of cool.
Passively. None of their stories in bc even explicitly mentioned fel.
Hell, at that point in the story fel was just a kind of arcane magic and several people used fel and arcane interchangeably.
The way I remember it is arcane being a gateway drug to fel because it can attract demons of the burning legion and thus tempt some mages to be warlocks.
By the way, is there any consequence for using a F-ton of magic anymore since the legion has been defeated?
I would disagree, unless there was some sort of cultural thing that implied almost all Orcs have them, which it doesnât. Accessories donât really correlate to biological radiation.
Itâs pretty prominent story wise, and visually. We see the Fel crystals floating among the ruins, with some magisters actively drawing from them even. We see them all through outland, and even on the Isle of Quelâdanas. Their reliance on Fel magic played a pretty large role culturally within the story of the game, even Varian openly mocks them, essentially equating them to fel addicts.
At this point in time any Blood elf NPC was going to have green eyes.