That same logic would apply to High Elves though. But since it isn’t, it’d make more sense to be giving us Fel Eyes, because Sin’dorei Scholars have a bigger number than the High Elf Wayfarers do.
Yeah, so, whats the issue?
I don’t understand how you’re not understanding that void energy would over ride any fel taint, and result in voidy blue.
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Furthermore, the Sunwell has been purified for over a decade now, I don’t see much “fel taint” remaining on any current Blood Elves from the minor exposure to Fel Crystals they had in Silvermoon way back in TBC.
The green eye colors (for Blood Elves) not being removed to reflect the purification of the sunwell ingame is probably due to two reasons:
1- High Elves canonically also had green/grey eye colors, not only blue eyes like most people seem to believe.
2- Player preference of green eyes, especially after having them for 13 years now.
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These blue eye options? They’re High Elf eyes. If the Void doesn’t override the High Elf eyes, why should it override the Sin’dorei eyes?
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No, they aren’t, lore states specifically the high elf race has multiple eye colors. The blue you see in game is due to the color they chose, and they remained because replacing the eye color requires making a new face model. They aren’t going to do such a thing. It has never been a high elf specific thing.
besides the fact that the void elf you’re playing was a blood elf with green eyes originally?
Like, I am not understanding where your confusion is stemming from.
You have no fel taint to make green.
So it makes sense you’d have any color not specific to light/fel energy
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Look at the OP. We’re seeing Void Elves with normal skin and blue High Elf eyes. Sin’dorei Scholars take up the majority of the normal Thalassian population in Telogrus Rift, which should kind of mean it’d make sense to give them green eyes too, right?
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They’re Thalassian Elf eyes. Most of the Silvermoon population would’ve had their original eye colors back by now after more than a decade of the Sunwell’s purification.
As I wrote earlier, canonically speaking the only Blood Elves with green eyes left, would be the ones who originally have had non glowing green eyes or emerald eyes (such is pre-retcon Alleria Windrunner from the 2001-2002 novels). The Green glowing ones are most probably only kept for Blood Elves players preference reasons.
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They’re thalassian elf eyes, its not specific to the high elf political group. It doesn’t make sense for them to have green eyes.We have seen in lore, that the void energy that transformed them over rides the weak fel taint.
So given what the lore has shown you, that void over rides the fel, why would they have green?
Compound that with Orc’s statement.
Sunwell cleansed them, so undoubtedly there were blood elves with standard blue as well
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First off, I completely agree with you, but this is a case where what we want just doesn’t seem to be what Blizzard intends. It really is about Blizzard having a specific vision regarding making differences very on the nose.
We have to be aware that Void Elf would become the super group simple because Blizzard wants to create easy distinction between groups, otherwise we would have simply had High Elves, with some of them dabbling in Void.
Since that didn’t happen, I think Blizzard’s intention is clear and they want to make the groups more distinct at first sight, and contrast them further. I think this is their thought process, even if I wouldn’t have done it like that personally (I would have con with the scenario described above)
It’s really about leading the story to go to a destination you want it, like BE’s on the Horde -like how that turned out, but it was clearly a decision made for aesthetics’ sake, which works-
It’s a goal based decision. We want X to happen, how do we get there? And in this case it just seems they wanted to make alliance thalassians ostensibly very different from Blood Elves.
So that’s why I find likely that many High Elves will join the Void Elves -of course groups like the Highvale wouldn’t- but not every remaining HE. To further legitimize this, the scenario where the SC becomes a joint VE/HE organization would further point out how the groups are merging, and that we are able to play as HE’s that started using the void.
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Ok, even if that is the case, it doesn’t mean the green-eyed thalassians aren’t the majority of the population there(out of the normal-looking elves). The Void being too weak to dilute the arcane in their eyes–but it also happens to be strong enough to cleanse their Fel from their eyes–seems kind of selective to me.
Not really, because they may be a mage, or practice arcane in some way.
Fel taint has always been weak
-Fel exposure from a distance, and for a relatively short period in TBC -VS- absorbing Light+Arcane energies from the Sunwell on daily basis for over a decade (not to mention the millennia before). Easy to make out which effect is FAR stronger and more dominant.
-We still don’t know what all natural Void eye colors are aside from purple. Blue is afterall one of two colors that make purple, they’re not opposites by any means.
Hopefully much more is going to be explained within the premise of the lore soon enough.
Dark Rangers are exclusively Forsaken units. They act as thief-catcher NPCs in Undercity, and served as Sylvanas’ elite cadre (specifically they were former High Elves as Sylvanas was) for the many years she acted as leader of the Forsaken.
Only in BFA did we see males added to the Dark Ranger ranks, as well as conquered Night Elves raised as Dark Rangers, but again, these were used within Forsaken armies and had no interacion with Blood Elven military outside joint Horde conflicts.
While the model is obviously using the Thalassian rig, seeing a Dark Ranger in Silvermoon would be as strange as seeing one in Telgorus.
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We don’t need to see them in Silvermoon, Exiles Reach is the new lore start point, and from there we go to Orgrimmar where they already are and have remarked on their kin, as Sin’dorei.
If you choose to do the original starting experience that is your player choice and agency Blizzard is talking about.
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Blood Elves are “kin” with a lot of different people, but Dark Rangers are specifically Forsaken, and identify with everything they are and deal with much more intimately than anything regarding the living.
Not to mention they are a class. A Hero Class. It wouldn’t fit as some globally applied customization available to a Mage, or Paladin or Priest, etc.
Dark Rangers (along with things like Necromancers and Wardens), fit much better as a class skin idea than extra cross-the-board customization.
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Yet the NE’s collectively move as one and identify with each other before the Forsaken.
The BE Thalassian Dark Rangers the same always seen together.
They identify with their other Undead Elf groups before the Forsaken.
Not to mention most fans of Undead Elves play BE’s themselves, and many Forsaken fans / mains have supported the idea, with some arguments I’ve seen not wanting their race customizations be Elf stuff.
Also fitting for BE’s second distinct visual theme, so it’s not only the more logical route to most people, but also Blizzards easier route.
If only this was the expansion for class skins, I think they will end up making it a race customization option that is validated by their player agency comments, and it seems more likely than not, and also more support for it then not, so I’m not all too worried about it, so long as Blizzard does intend to give more BE customizations I think its a fair and safe assumption its more likely to come than not.
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I can almost guarantee they won’t apply Dark Ranger customization to Blood Elves. Player Agency is great and all, but it’s far too specific a group that is wholly built around a single class to make sense for every Blood Elf.
It would be like giving all other Blood Elven classes the abilty to have Demon Hunter horns and blindfolds, or the dead skin and hairs of Death Knights. It’s precisely that silly.
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Yeah some people said the same things about it being silly for Non Void Void Elves yet here we are. And here I am, using golden eyes on my warlock, with my player choice Blizzard has made the big selling point of customizations for Shadowlands.
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An eye or skin shade is a little different than letting a Blood Elf also be a Forsaken, and frankly would weaken both Forsaken identity, and the possibility of a Dark Ranger class or class skin down the line, which would be much preferrable to some outfit you can already use with a toy if you’re feeling Dark Rangery today.
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And yet it still seems like a likelihood to a lot of people 
and I’m inclined to believe Blizzard will do it, so I guess we’ll see and I’ll be enjoying my red eyes and undead complexion!
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