Where does that link confirm that she’s a Death Knight? At best, you could misread the sentence that says she’s a “Death Knight trainer;” aka she trains Death Knights, not that she is a Death Knight and a trainer. We’ve had Amal’thuzad the lich as our Frost trainer just as long as Alistra, making the point that she doesn’t have to be a Death Knight to train us.
Then cite these other red eyed Death Knights, please.
Vanilla mobs are generally going to fall outside the bounds of this discussion because they aren’t Gen III Death Knights like the player, and they are early concepts compared to what the player characters and Death Knights eventually became (no hints of our specs or anything). Vanilla Naxx had Death Knights using sword and board, yet that’s distinctly not a feature of the class, etc.
Go ahead and cite the pale eyes as well, please. The ones without glow have already been addressed as the tattooed face limitation who have the glow in official artwork.
The saronite armor is worn by more than just Death Knights, and as I already pointed out above, she doesn’t need to be a Death Knight herself in order to train us.
Customizations need to fit within the lore of the world, or else the fantasy part of the world may as well not exist.
You never assume something can’t be done just because the story doesn’t explicitly tell you can’t happen. That’s the dumbest way to justify almost anything.
“The lore hasn’t explicitly told us that I can’t fly purely through the power of farts, therefore I demand this be added as a customizable mount!”
“The lore hasn’t explicitly said that I can’t reverse gravity if I just snap my fingers and clap my hands to the tune of Never Gonna Let You Down, so it must be possible!”
No, what you actually do is take the rules of the world that the story does tell you, and you either confirm, or make educated guesses at what can be done within those rules. Magic has rules in this world, and our Death Knights’ eyes are one of the representations of that. Lightforged Draenei and Dark Iron don’t get other eye glows either outside of Death Knights - it’s literally linked to their origins and who they are. Death Knights are no different.
What assumptions have I made?
Who said anything about dying on this hill? And here I thought I was the one who was supposedly making assumptions.