Since Blood Elf eye color/glow color can be influenced by the magic their absorbing (green=fel, yellow=light, blue/purple=arcane (and maybe purple for void/shadow priests?)), would it make sense lore-wise for a Venthyr Blood Elf to have red eyes? Just curious if there are possible lore reasons for a blood elf to suddenly use the dark ranger skin (venthyr blood elf getting red eyes and being covered from head to toe for the 2 years shadowlands takes place so no sun exposure)
Edit: Just to clarify, I meant a blood elf that joined the Venthyr Covenant, still alive, still a maw walker. Not a sanlayn or an actual venthyr race, just a maw walker that joined the covenant and as such has spent most of shadowlands in revendreth
Yes, the San’layn are comparable and they have red eyes, you could make a Venthyr Blood Elf/ San’layn with the Dark Ranger skin.
You could do something really cool like this,
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That;s pretty sick looking. Awesome job to whoever put that outfit together
This seems like an RP type of thing.
I was in a Pug Castle Nathria with a Night Elf bear tank. When he was in his Elf form, he had the Red Eyes.
Did he have a personal lore reason? Or did he just think it looked cool? I did not ask him, but from the brief chit chat, I am guessing he just thought it looked cool.
I might have spent more time considering his RP while staring at his bear butt, than he ever did.
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Ironically the original San’layn, although being literal vampires, don’t seem to sport red eyes ( at least the ones in ICC don’t )
But who cares. Venthyr San’layn with the Dark Ranger customizations look cool 
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Yeah, but Hearthstone art confirms.
https://moon-guard.fandom.com/wiki/San%27layn?file=Sanguine_Reveler.jpg
You could make a San’layn without the dark ranger moditifcations but he specified Venthyr. Venthyr have yellow eyes it seems with undead pallor, you can’t use only the Dark Ranger skin you are locked into red eyes. Alternatively, OP could use a very fair skin and pale yellow eyes.
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San’layn allied horde race when?!
Not too soon, probably. They had the chance with Dreven in bfa but he’s dead and now with the new Blood Elf questline it seems they’re back to being just regular villains.
Just to clarify, I didn’t mean that the blood elf was a sanlayn or a venthyr like kael. I meant that they joined the venthry covenant and have been based in revendreth for most of shadowlands. Would it be a reasonable assumption that a blood elf maw walker (and maybe even a void elf maw walker) would absorb magical energies from revendreth since they’re there so much that it could, at least temporarily, turn their eyes red? Skin could just be lack of sun light after all.
That questline in BfA was such a waste of a potentially good AR race for the horde. Shame Blizz wasted them like the way they did
Given how blithely they dredged Lana’thel back from the grave in SHL, I’d be totally fine fixing up her soul a la Sylvanas and having her rally the san’layn to a non-evil purpose.
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Any hopes of San’layn most likely died with darkfallen customization given to the elves.
With the Darkfallen being a customization option, I don’t know if Blizzard would make the San’layn an allied race. I can just see their logic being that if people want to be play as an undead elf then they have to have the Return of Lordaeron Quest Chain completed and role a Blood or Night Elf with undead skins. After all Void Elves can appear as High Elves through their customization options.
For whatever reason, Blizzard decided that both Dark Rangers and San’layn are ‘Darkfallen’ which are all undead elves. Officially, lore wise, only the Dark Rangers joined the Alliance and Horde, not the San’layn, but people will do what they want with their own OCs.