This does not mean that Blood Elves agree and would want to have undead within their kingdom, unless it gets retconned.
Honoring the dead does not entail welcoming them back as undead among them. They honor those who fell because of their sacrifice, they are however dead and no longer Blood elf.
By choice? I vividly recall Lor’themar threatening Sylvanas against raising ANY dead Blood elves during the MoP Siege of Orgrimmar, this is ingame voiced dialogue. Sylvanas is also no longer in the Horde, so why would there be any new Blood elves willingly turning to Dark Rangers? We’re discussing shadowlands customization options here afterall.
Yep. Having undead skins listed for Blood elf in particular would be weird.
DK’s exist for almost all races (if not all, not sure at this point), they’re an exception because the undead skin is exclusive to the class and does not extend to the rest of the race… Having undead skin customization options for all Blood Elves would not make sense within the lore.
If something special ingame or within official lore takes place, where Blood Elves officially recognize Dark Rangers as their own people, only then it would make sense.
Well it looks like it could end up being the most likely way it’s implemented if VE customization is to give any indications, as well as other troll / dwarf ideas being implemented. As well as the player agency Blizzard promised.
This is where many are voicing our support, but it sometimes is a minor topic in the San’layn thread too when it comes into implementing both San’layn and DR’s in the same fashion.
As well as this thread being a good place to advance the topic of Blood Elf customizations.
I admit people want Dark Rangers. I want Dark Rangers.
I cannot want Dark Rangers and say that nobody wants Dark Rangers.
Plenty of people want Dark Rangers.
But that’s not what’s happening in this thread.
After all, when someone complained that Void Elves would have Blood Elf colors and Void stuff and that it wasn’t fair, I’m the one that said, “What about Dark Rangers, or Felblood Elves?”
And they’re still flipping out about Felblood Elves still.
It isn’t a genuine request. Not in this High Elf discussion thread that ironically started as a blue post.
Because if it was, it would have been phrased like that.
But it wasn’t.
It wasn’t, “Hey Blizzard I also want Dark Rangers.”
It was, “You’re getting something and have something and that’s not fair!”
Sand Trolls make no sense in the lore to join up with the Darkspear narrative yet there they are.
Keep in mind the current level 1-10 experience is the “canon” one at this timeframe that these new players will come in as so Dark Ranger skinned Belfs would be coming into the game on the Exiles Reach. Nothing is being broken in the Lore anymore than anything else does.
Just want to add on here, that there have been some other megathreads attempted in the past but they did not live as long as the High Elven ones.
Probably because until recently it was less easy to see how it would get done exactly.
Balesong captured the text too where Dark Rangers report to see both Sin’dorei and Forsaken as their kin. I do not think its a stretch given the model, and most prominent Banshee being Sylvanas still identifying with Quel’Thalas to believe the customization would go to them.
Combined with the new player experience technically being Exiles Reach, I don’t think its a matter of “Dark Rangers need to be accepted into Quel’Thalas” it’ll be player agency for your character, given you could technically I believe still skip exiles reach and just do the regular starting zone.
Darkspear Trolls aren’t into a lot of the newly playable Trolls currently. Just because you’d have to be a Blood Elf to pull off the Dark Ranger customization doesn’t mean you’ve gotta hang out in Silvermoon…
Though the Undead sort of need a new capital…
Wildhammer Dwarves shouldn’t have Bronzebeard racials or Bronzebeard totems but here we are.
The choice Blizzard has made is to allow you to play the race you want by customizing a similar race… rather than flooding the race select screen with allied races.
Just imagine if you had every type of Troll on the select screen. =P
“Do you want to be a Frost Troll, Jungle Troll, Darkspear Troll, Sand Troll, Amani Troll… etc etc etc.”
Exiles Reach is the canon current start zone up to date on the timeframe though, the old start zones are effectively just so you can still play through old content.
True, but at least those Trolls are biologically near identical, while the Dark rangers and Blood Elves, Undead and living, I mean even the voice overs would not fit there.
