The "dark-skinned" sin'dorei are probably not African black, more like Middle Easterners. Which would make sense considering that blood elves are very Middle Eastern, what with minaret-like towers, bazaars, hookahs, carpets, explosive devices and suicide bombers.
The shadowy Daughter of Urthona stood before red Orc,
When fourteen suns had faintly journey'd o'er his dark abode:
His food she brought in iron baskets, his drink in cups of iron:
Crown'd with a helmet and dark hair the nameless female stood;
Sorry to say, OP, you're grasping at straws. There are no truly dark-skinned elves in this game, not like the Dunmer of Elder Scrolls or Drow of D&D anyway. The closest you might even come is the darkest shade of night elf -- in lore, those guys supposedly can be nice and purply even if our playable elves can't.
But have fun with your head canon nonetheless.
I think high elves and blood elves have always been capable of being dark-skinned, or at least we can kind of assume they can since there are blood elf skin options that go quite dark and we can assume that lore-wise there would be naturally even more tan variants.
I think past that, you're just reading into it. I do think dark-skinned high/blood elves would look awesome, though.
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They shouldn't exist as far as lore is concerned. Ever since the race's creation the high elves and blood elves stayed in one portion of the world. Their skin colour shouldn't vary so drastically.
Last edited by Aeula; 2016-06-30 at 10:03 AM.
lol why they got to be black.
white privilege even applies to WoW community. that is just sad.
you mean wretched rgith? they looked super pale to me.
and actually so do withered, which makes me think its the magical sources that influence the Elves' skin colour. all their waters are from the well of eternity, but the 2nd well is purple hence most night elves' colour - they do have a black version though and a couple of grey ones, the nightwell is black, hence the nightborne colours are twilight blue, black and grey - and the Thalassian elves are sorta the exception, they don't really have golden skin, but it shows in their hair.
it's a guess though.
Not beyond the realm of possibility but considering blizz doesn't allow any black skin tones for the player model I wouldn't count on them. Considering that the only one we know of may or may not even be black, and was in an alternate timeline, and we've never seen a black high elf in game. Blizz is more restrictive on these sorts of things than some other developers, which is why you don't get humans with blue hair for example, but other races can have it. If they envisioned black high/blood elves we'd probably have seen them by now. Even the nightborne I"ve seen are more of a dark blue/dark gray, and have no bearing on high elves either way. I wouldn't mind if blizz introduced some black high elves, as long as it didn't come across as shoehorned for 'muh diversity,' but as things are right now I don't think they exist in canon.
Maybe they meant some skintones like this one from bloodelves:
http://imgur.com/QZczB8T
I would consider this a "dark tone" for elves.