No. They’re not. I demand you to show me literal text from a lore, or book source stating such. Because as one who has read multiple novels and been heavy involved with the lore & story of the game I’ve never come across that.
They were originally described to be the same people as Highborne / Nightelves with purple hued skin, then overtime mutated into a fairskinned, and many golden-hair streaked people. This is referenced in multiple sources. I used this knowledge to provide another justifying reason of how the new feature could be possible too.
I’ve provided lore and timeframes of how it could easily be justified however to many points of arguments. As for the blue thing, that’s weird but nonetheless if blue goes to darker blue - its still blue. If a colour goes to its polar opposite though (Blue to Red / White to Black) there’s obviously going to be questions. Finding a bridge & reasonable answer for those questions is one of the reasons I made this thread. To close the argument.
Time travel is explained through the Bronze dragonflight
Orcs are explained through both Outlands and Draenor
Guns are explained with Dwarven engineering.
Let’s get an explanation for this too.
Noboty ITT is saying it’s wrong, or saying it should be removed, just explained.
They really should have had the new Belf skin tones in the beginning (back in BC). Currently all their skins are in a very narrow range of pale to slightly less pale, because Blizzard felt that is how they should look. Blizzard now feels differently, people are saying it doesn’t mesh with lore with the argument that it hasn’t been seen before, which is true, but we’ve accepted stranger inconsistencies in the past.
It’s not unfeasible to think that dark belfs exist, but it will be strange to suddenly see them as we’ve built this expectation of a particular appearance for blood elves over all these years, and this clashes with it. People will get over the initial shock.
Blood elves currently have the same skin color as white human being. That’s what I was talking about. And nothing in the lore says that their skin cannot tan.
Yeah, just like dark Blood Elves have the same skin as light Blood Elves. Just a different shade.
I don’t believe they need to justify the darker skinned blood elves. They’re not dramatically abnormal such as rainbow skin would be. It’s easy to imagine there’d be darker skin elves in a land bathed by sunlight and where magic exposure can dictate physical changes (eyes) in appearance. In a world such as this, it’s definitely not hard for me to imagine.
The sad thing is that they don’t even complain about the skin being darker. They complain because the skin looks like the skin of an actual black person IRL.
Like I said before, nobody complain about dark green orcs, dark purple Draenei or dark blue Night Elves. But a human-like skin being darker ? LORE JUSTIFICATION PLEASE.
Well that’s the thing, Blood elves were made pale by becoming diurnal. It probably would be easy to fit them in the lore, but I’d like the attempt.
For example, darker skinned humans were explained to be from Tel’abim and STV in Warcraft Traveler. Blizzard didn’t have to do that, since humans IRL and in game come in a variety of tones already, but they did.
I’d just like them to do something similar, so why not spitball what they could do on the forums like with every other part of the story?
One could just say that Blood Elves finally invented skin bronzer, contact lenses and hair dye. Their society is pretty vain so would that really be too far out there? There’s your lore lol.
I wouldn’t complain about a dark green goblin, or a very light green goblin.
I would ask for a lore explanation for red goblins though.
There’s a difference between a different shade of the same color and the exact opposite. Blizzard could say something as simple as they were the first pilgrims to Outland and being exposed to the nether affected their skin, and I’d be A Ok with it.
I’d like something though.
Boi, you saying I should have to do a questline to get stripes for my worgen or on a dwarf to get body paint? Or on a human to get black and asian people?
About hair color, there is hair dyes and bleaching… I might be remembering things wrong but I think somewhere mentioned that the unusual gnome hair colors are dyed hair.
As mentioned in the original post of thread, some are easily acceptable / have been around for awhile (Wildhammer Dwarves) and others aren’t. I found a few that seemed to be rather triggered by Blonde Haired Night Elves, so I mentioned that too. I also stated if you would like to discuss further then by all means go for it.
If you have an idea / questline for other upcoming customisation + race combos, by all means do share.
Tan is fine, but some are outright Ebon - Ye don’t get that from a tan unless you were set on fire lol; but again I’ve provided depth of exploration to this and offered storyline, an opportunity to give wicked cool new characters and a resource to stick it to those that disagree with diversity.
For some such as yourself its not too bothersome, but there are obviously others that find it grizzly and they use certain arguments to sway others to their reasoning. I wanted to additionally offer not so much justification, but also a story, a few new characters and some cool content that would be enjoyable to those that play the customised race and those who simply enjoy storyline and additional content.
If you’re talking about myself and my thread, then you clearly didn’t read it in depth; and I’d ask you to politely leave if you’re simply going to argue for arguments sake. To literally quote myself once again:
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I’m using this to boost the diversity, and hopefully find celebration in it, not belittle or trample it. Please don’t fabricate discrimination that’s not there, or I’ll simply report it.
One of High Elves’ oldest descriptors has been that they lacked pigmentation. Like they used to he all the different shades of night elves, but they lost their color once they started living in the daylight.
If they got it back, I’d like to know why. The exact same way I know how and why they lost it.
well velfs are in such a tiny color range – et. al, only cool colors, no warm colors, no black, no white, and their skin has the same limitations so they dont take away from the kajillion shades of brown the belfs now have, that i dont see them being able to get any new skin colors.
for haircolors
itd be nice if they could get black and at least one long straight hairstyle. sadly their hairstyle is also in an extremely small niche. again so they dont step on the ridiculous amount of hairstyles blood elves have. none of their options are straight if they’re long… they look messy and…drenched. sad state of affairs.
the only thing other than that…maybe jewelry.
i dunno, i’m not gonna be playing, so i guess it doesnt matter.
“Lets have white Dark Iron Dwarves. Ever heard of pigmentation?”
“Lets have Red Draenie with demonic Green eyes. Ever heard of pigmentation?”
Mate, pigmentation only gets you so far. This is a discussion thread, not a bullet with your name on it; stop taking it so personal.
Personally I find ammo to load Blizzard to bring out more diverse characters a fantastic idea. Unless you’re a racist and ultimately disagreeing with everything that provides structure to such ideals, in which case I have many words I’m not allowed to say on the forums to you …
I feel Blizzard may make a comment about it in another form of media somewhere. But idk, I also think this may cause more trouble too to feel any sort of need to implement some random lore justification. Instead of just letting the darker elves be, Blizzard incorporating some off-hand quest to somehow imply they’re corrupt, different, mutated or otherwise, may just be taken the wrong way. I feel they added this for simply more options and relatability to your character. Doesn’t do a great job to feel relatability to your blood elf when being told in some quest that you’re some kind of different form of elf or abnormal because of your darker skin tone.
