Humans in WoW have many skin tones suggesting many different racial origins of human have come together at some point to form the current “pool” of humans.
Does anyone ever wonder where the differences originated from? Maybe it’s just me but I think it would be pretty realistic if humans from different cities, villages, quest hubs etc had homogenized skin tones from their area of origination. With Stormwind having the most variety as it represents the main city where humans of all kinds come together.
My thoughts. Humans didn’t evolve on Azeroth. They actually devolved from Vrykul. The original story is there was one couple of Vrykul who saved their corrupted infant and this is how humans came to be. Just my head cannon but Vrykul were a seafaring people. Who knows what kind of far off lands they might of landed and given rise to humans of different ethnicities.
(Commentary): Unit Exacitor always suspected dark-skinned humans might’ve been more native to Stormwind than any other nation. The Azotha were an ancient titanic race that dwelled in Stranglethorn Vale. If they’re also ancestors of Humans, like Vykrul, then their environment would match certain environments dark skinned humans on Earth are native to.
Humans are not “multi racial” in WoW. The different races actually look like different races.
You know- Orc to Human. In WoW “White, Black, and Asian” doesn’t exist. They’re just humans with different features. Vykrul were originally stone. If you need an explanation, different vykrul came from different stone colors.
Like sorry, there isn’t a lore reason, there doesn’t need to be a lore reason, humans have always been diverse in color and looks and just be quiet, OP.
You can actually just blame magic. Humans originated from the Curse of Flesh as deformed vrykul kids, a powerful magical mutation. So you could easily say different ethnicities happened to show up with it. Plus that all happened over 15,000 years ago. That’s a lot of time for even more genetic changes to happen little by little as natural developments.
But the difference between our world and this one is Azeroth never had human nations divided by that. The different types just lived together to begin with and made no distinction at all about it. So there’s no separate societies by race or anything.
There’s no need to justify why the “curse of flesh” may have had differences in how it affected the races. It’s a curse. My head canon is, or all we know, on Azeroth, a pale skinned person could give birth to a dark skinned baby because magic?
the best understanding would be to look at trolls in wow. forest trolls green, jungle trolls blue/green, ice trolls blue, desert trolls tan. all the same race, but different… tribes, origins, humans in WoW i guess dont get as much distinction because all seven human nations minus stormwind were established in the same region. trolls lived in all corners of the world. if humans had established themselves on kalimdor maybe we’d get more of a backstory. but the mogu and kaldorei empires all stayed together, so the races look very alike. when a race exiles their own then you notice it… highborne/queldorei being the example when you relocate. or what happened with the trolls
Adding to Unit Exacitor’s statement, it’s worth mentioning how close Stormwind is to Stranglethorn Vale. More than likely the Azotha as a whole were as he describes and frequently warred with the Trolls in the jungles as well.
Oh and Stormwind’s ‘original’ nation name before the Third War was “The Kingdom of Azeroth”. It may of been named after it’s indigenous people, the Azotha. There is some very interesting lore surrounding early human history.
