the orcs drank it, and it changed their skin colour to red, then faded to a green (somehow)… does it act similarly on other races? i mean, we know that fel changed the blood elves eyes to green, and the eredar turned red from fel-exposure… what would happen if humans drank fel blood? would we turn green? would we turn red, like a permanent sunburn? or would we turn purple or blue, like the hellfire-citadel orcs, and eredar we can’t play as?
just thought of this, cause i’m doing the WoD intro, and it popped into my mind.
Weren’t Fel Orcs (the red ones) just the result of continually drinking more of the blood? As opposed to it being the norm and green being the effect fading?
Well look at the Feltotems from Legion. We learned Taurens Double in size and their Horns/Antlers begin to crack and display bright sickly green veins and their fur gets darker, almost near absolute black.
Eadar/Draenei and Orcs getting Red Skin might be a common notion between them.
Green Orcs iirc is due to discontinued usage of the unsugared Kool-Aid.
IIRC as well, Trolls get an ashy completion with similar effects to their tusks that Taurens get with their horns/antlers.
I believe all other races would be up for speculation
my understanding is that this is right
in magically inclined races like elves and eredar it manifests in the eyes first. belves got their green eyes this way. iirc belves also have a reddish tinge to their skin in comparison to high elves. not super strong like felbood orcs though
it takes a ton of prolonged exposure to fully turn red
as for humans my guess is that it would work more like orcs than draenei and elves. call it the glowy eyes hypothesis if you will
it is interesting though that you have high ranking burning legion eredar like archimonde not turning red, but keeping their original blue skin tone. always thought that was strange. he actually looks like an entirely unexposed eredar minus green eyes
seems to happen with eredar too. their horns can crack with fel
now im wondering if exposure type plays a role. didnt orcs turn green with red eyes upon drinking it? the green was permanent and i think even hereditary, but the eyes faded?
This might be due to having more magical powers to suppress / enhance their natural abilities. Like Kiljad iirc wasnt as gifted or as powerful as Achi or Valen.
You might be correct. Think the Red skin for orcs was over exposure, and in Hellfire the orcs captured a Pit Lord to use as a Kool-Aid dispenser. Green skin / Red Eyes would been from the First time drinking to being hereditary after discontinuing. I think too the other clans that didn’t drink did / would have turned Green cause the exposure to the Fel Corruption that lingers if exposed to them for too long.
i gave it more thought and it makes sense that drinking magic (green) blood = green skin. the frostwolves throws that theory down the wastebasket tho. if it werent for the exposure orcs we’d have a nice system of blood drinking = green skin, exposure = red skin.
for elves and eredar their eyes are canonically a reflection of what magic they use. arcane as default, so blue, and then green when they turn to fel. this went out the window for customization in game but its the tradition. nelves are an exception because of gold eyes and such.
i can only think of 1 human in lore who may have had magic eyes, and that’d be aegwynn. so its basically a non factor when considering humans.
i think orcs are the most analogous race to humans so my best guess is that whatever happens to orcs happens to humans. though humans might be a bit more resistant to it?
our best reference would in theory be gnomes and dwarves due to similar backgrounds but they dont have a case study either (unless im just blanking)