Hello,
So, with all the new eye colours we’ve had, I am now unsure what is the one I should use on a Blood Elf that was mostly residing in Silvermoon ever since the Sunwell was cleansed, and therefore would’ve had a plenty of time to be affected by the cleansed Sunwell. Would her eyes be blue or golden by now? As far as magic usage is concerned, Falithie uses some minor Arcane (a single fireball is about as far as it could get!) and no Light magic.
Whatever, you, want. Eye color clearly isn’t a differentiating factor anymore.
What Avannari said. There isn’t a set eye color anymore, given that customization options are through the roof.
No one’s going to say you’re lore breaking for having blue eyes white dragon or red eyes black dragon.
If you are dead set on lore, blood elves had green eyes for the longest time and got yellow eyes rather recently to indicate the effects of the Light upon the Sunwell (or something like that). But again, you are free to grab whatever suits your fancy/transmog.
Like they said, your character’s eye color is really up to you and what seems right/nice looking.
Either blue or gold could make perfectly good sense if she’s been in the area of influence of the Sunwell since it was cleansed. It contains both arcane and Light magic. She could be “more receptive” to one or the other, or her use of the arcane could tilt her in the blue direction.
Or her eyes could still be green, especially if she was exposed to more intense fel than usual back in the day, or was ever a warlock personally.
It really is just up to you, though!
Choose a color and then make up a reason.
Gold color? Sunwell. Cleansed. Nicey nicey.
Green color? Still fel. Holding onto grudges. Bad vibes. Corruption still lingering. Oh, you bad devil.
Blue color? High elf.
Red color? Real high elf.
What about purple eyes?
Singing career.
Enekie’s right - the one you want to give your character. Just rationalize it somehow.
If you wanna keep green, you could easily say that something happened to them during the Legion campaign where they wound up exposed to the stuff a ton, and the corruption lingers.
I got no clear answer since Blizzard hasn’t given us one but I would assume it is the following.
Those with some connection to Holy Magic(Paladins and Priests and of course RP reasons) would start getting Golden Eyes due to the Holy aspect of the Sunwell.
Those that do not practice magic or practice Arcane magic are slowly returning to their original eye colors: purple, cyan and blue, due to the Arcane aspect of the Sunwell.
And those still, in some form, messing around with Fel, especially Warlocks, are keeping their green eyes.
This is just speculation of course, considering that Lor’themar still has green eyes and they aren’t going to change his new model anytime soon. But at the same time, Blizzard has hinted along time ago, back in TBC IIRC that eventually the Blood Elves would be cleansed of the Fel influence.
The Sunwell is now a font of Light and Arcane energies, so you’d be well within lore to have blue or yellow eyes.
Green works as well, for obvious reasons. Maybe your eyes didn’t revert, or maybe you’re still around enough fel magic to keep them green. My mage’s husband returned during Legion as a Demon Hunter, so her eyes have remained green due to close proximity with him.
This thread posits an interesting question.
Can elves be used as the magical equivalent to a coal mine canary? If you tie them up and leave them somewhere for a bit with enough food do you just come back and check their eye color to see what sort of magical radiation is permeating the area?
It really doesn’t matter. Just because the sunwell is cleansed doesn’t mean the general population is losing the green eyes for sure. There is just not lore on it, and a lot of the major blood elf characters still have green eyes.
You can come up with any reason. Everyone’s body is different and some elves might have a more relative system than others.
I feel like you might be able to do that with Orcs, too, since their bodies seem capable of reacting to their environments much more quickly than others. That’s kind of a compelling idea, though–teams of clean-up crews going around looking for fel remnants and using their blood elf and orc friends to help out.
I’m going to need some orcs, some elves, a lot of rope and a lot of food, I’ve got some caves to check for artifacts.
I’ve seen enough rule 34 to know where this is going
Me too. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Send me your hunkiest orcs and your most demure elves.
NO.
Your most demure orcs and your hunkiest elves.
It would be fun if they did have bits of throwaway dialog or something to explain certain customization options.
“wow I drank from the well again and my eyes turned yellow, or perhaps blue, how about that”
“hello I am a sand troll we apparently joined the horde at some point. no, I don’t know why the revantusk still won’t visit Orgrimmar”
“Hi, I’m a high elf. We are still part of the Alliance, but none of us are blonde now.”
Technically the eye color of elves does “matter”, there’s just nothing ingame preventing you from doing whatever you want. Playable undead aren’t affected by paladin spells that target undead, elf warlocks don’t need to have green eyes, etcetera. Blizzard is pretty happy to set aside lore rules for the sake of player convenience.
That being said, you can look at Warcraft 3 (still entirely canon) and see “blood elves” with blue, white or purple eyes. Green eyes might be a natural residual effect of living near fel energy, but not one they can’t hide or reverse somehow.
Green Eyes: Traitor Elves who betrayed the Alliance because one guy was paranoid about Kael’thas collaborating with demons and was ultimately 100% vindicated when Kael went off his rocker and allied with the same demons who were responsible for destroying the Sunwell. All according to plan, according to him.
Gold Eyes: Traitor elves who genocided Draenei, abducted their holy wind chime, killed it (no, no, you don’t understand, it’s OK because the wind chime meant to get kidnapped!) then somehow got Velen to fix their holy toilet, and became, ah, bastions of the light. No, no one has told Turalyon what the Blood Knights have done. We don’t want the Northern Kingdoms looking like Argus.
Blue Eyes: Alliance spies.
Purple: Did too many “mana potions.”
I would love nothing more than throw away lines. Just have some random lines that npcs say to each other that updates a bit of their lore. Whats happening with the forsaken? What colour are your eyes? Are anymore worgen being turned?