Lore and many others tend to come at this with a “I want what I want and I’m willing to take any little hint it might be” attitude that, for me personally, hurts the lore and stories of the characters and races they’re specifically interested in.
Like with the constant use of Danusers words of late. Despite any real look into those words meaning literally nothing. He states only what is obvious and doesn’t answer the question in any capacity. He doesn’t explain how new Void Elves are made or if they even are.
Yet many use those words to explain a whole host of things.
I digress.
THIS!
So much of wanting these things that many request seem born of wanting something that in the lore has moved on.
Again this!
Too often this idea is thrown around when if anyone cared enough about the lore they’d realize that it made immense sense for the Blood Elves (Who are the high elves, fite me.) and these small holdouts actually end up making a lot less sense in the lore overall. (A few sure but Blizzard making an entire huge military faction out of 1% of 10% of a race is immensely ridiculous.)
Yet people are stuck on this.
200% this.
I’m so tired of people misreading high elves and blood elves and thinking they don’t make sense within the Horde.
Oh yeah.
Though I think some of them can be pretty ok on their own. I just wish they’d be more honest.
The constant trying to justify themselves by twisting things drives me nuts. Its enough that they want to request it. While others may disagree with the option being added or whatnot they do not need to have some glorious defining reason for it.
All jewelry should be togglable for all races and available on men too.
Not to mention the just… everything that Nightborne need.
Indeed… for example I actually dig waaay more the tiara accesory on the new male Belf haircut for this female rogue than the princess crowd of the new femBelf haircut. And guess what, Blizz former “Gods” apparently forbid the use of anything different to sexist feminist tropes on female toons (ergo, the pretty UwU princess crown andthe overall unpractical gaudy neckclaces or bands) or worse, male elf toons using jewerly (I mean guys, since when is jewerly a measure of masculinity / feminity? Cause as far as I remember, jewerly simply means how much money you have, period). And the other Horde races use their own versions of “jewerly” for their males, ffs!!!
There´s a VERY amazing Youtube artist whose work was posted a few days ago in the Belf thread, and in his channel he has too some videos regarding Nightborne. I think a Nightborne thread starting with that video could sustain by itself easily, cause is not mere words and complains, is seeing literally how easy is to improve the models.
Could you guys please just confirm for me that you can view these colours? What do you think of them?
Stark White & Fire effect: https://imgur.com/a/YeNfBSM
Jet Black & Fire effect: https://imgur.com/a/zUONew0
Brown & Voidy effect: https://imgur.com/a/oeO0LFC
Pale Pastel Pink: https://imgur.com/a/Hr2OSE2
meh blizzard kinda sucks at population numbers. But there is a legitimate arguement made that void elves was lesser in population at their creation then even the Alliance high elves but was playable. But that’s about it really. I honestly think alliance high elves isn’t going to be a thing at this point, specially with what Elisande stated is happened with them.
yes we can.
Looks more arcane then voidy.
The hair color also does not fit the race theme.
Could work I suppose.
Works of dark irons, but I don’t think would suit for VE.
I do like the starry/glow effects and that they are similar to the Dark Irons, though the color of the DIs don’t really match Void Elves. As for the tawny/pink hair color, I’d prefer the hair color as a brighter pale platinum(similar to the DI) and darker violet/blue Starcursed effects for more of a cooling effect, though I’m fine with the pink assets in both pictures as they fit into an unnatural/punk kind of look.
Interesting fact: The fire effect orange has the same colour as the eyes of N’zoth, who was one of the Old Gods. Thus I think it could potentially fit the Void elf theme, as dark blue is not and does not have to be the only colour representing the Void.
Other colours often shown on Void entities are very light purple, pale pink, and shades in between that.
The reason I like the DID ones for Velfs is because the white is basically stark white with an unnatural blonde / neon yellow shade from the lower half. None of the two exist on Belfs and provide the perfect combo for a white choice with this nice neon touch to it. And I think the black with the effect would also fit well due to the N’zoth eyes which are also being requested on the OP
Eyes =/= hair though. I can understand it being an eye color for VE, but not hair. Stark white could work, and maybe change the color of the flame into more of a void blue and black.
Leaving it as is would be more akin to them representing fire, and dark irons should have that theme.
Yeah we could work with altering the flame colour to a different one, although I would not go for void blue. I think so many inc void elf fans would love a stark white but not with too much corruption displaying on it. Maybe a soft sparkly violet or pink instead of the orange flame to make it more unique to our race
It does not have to be of dark colour to represent the Void (althought Jet black is included in the suggestions). Your train of thought is too rigid, too strict. You need to be open, this is about art and aesthetics, not just lore. And if you are so strict about the lore, we have showed you above pictures of light pink being included as a Void colour, shown on Void lords and voidlings, so there’re your thematic colours.
The thing is though, the entire aesthitic of void elves is the void. If it was any other race I would potentially be more open to it, but we ate talking about void transformed beings here.
Do know though I wouldn’t oppose dark pinks (not a fan of pink persay) or any shade of violet though.
I get that. However, I believe the majority supports a pure white and a jet black, when it comes to those two I would rather they stayed plain, unless they got a really cool light effect a bit similar to that of DID, but with a different light colour shade to orange maybe.
I would encourage however, if a pale, ash blonde where to be added, to be decorated with void blue highlights, or have dark purple or blue void roots, etc.
I managed to find this concept on both a natural and unnatural skin tone so we can see how it looks on both aesthetics. I really like the contrast on the unnatural version.
I also really like the light off violet/silver colors seen in this image, which would go great with some EE esque skin tones as seen here;
I also really love these;
Some more great two toned concepts in more fantasy colors than natural, still offering more color range than Void Elves currently have, yet remaining within a more rigid Void aesthetic.
