That's interesting. Without Blizzard giving us any details, the slightly more teal hue to the blood elf blue eyes could be seen as a reemergence of blue eyes after fel exposure, rather than a never-effected blue. Whereas the void elf options could be seen as more "never-fel'd" hues.
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Blue eyes are nice and all but the purple option for void elf truly is the best one, looks good.
IMO I think it's a bug since all female HE NPC's shared one eye color, and now that eye color is nowhere to be found. I don't think it's a mistake that it got replaced with purple tho, I do think that's meant to be used for several NPC's, but not all. I think some of them will use new player character blue eyes.
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Very unlikely as long as the Blood Elves remain on the horde, because for both Alleria and Vereesa "reunification" is dependent on them rejoining the Alliance, and the Blood Elves really don't care about the alliance at this point, and have a far bigger support structure in the Horde.
There's just no reason why the Blood Elves would want to leave the Horde now.
Holy shit Helf fans are feasting right now that's crazy after years and years of starving lmao.
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You know, what I do find interesting still is that we are on a moment where Blizzard can simply phase out high Elves as a thing, but they still go on and add a NPC eye color exclusive to High Elves. Why? Hhaha, they did not have to make "purple high elf eyes" but they did. Even if they actually have a reason, say point out to high elves with an arcane background/living on an arcane city like Dalaran, it was just unnecessary either way.
Like I lowkey love it, but why do they need to keep making NPC assets for high elves? hahah.
But I really hope we don't end up seeing the Highvale eyes with purple eyes lol.
What I never understood...
If high elves where mutated high borne... Why do they have blue eyes?
Speaking of night elves, female will finally get the option to have golden eyes. And so far it's always said that high borne have golden eyes and regular kaldorei blue eyes. So why do high elves have blue eyes?
My two elven mages are going to be proper Arcane Mages in Shadowlands I see, so awesome!
Gotta love Shadowlands. I mean the pre patch will probably be the best pre patch ever when we can start changing our characters.
Hype!
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Wait a second...the moment Blood/Void elves get blue eyes the actual in-game High Elves switch to exclusive purple eyes?
Oh dear this won't go down well: "Give us purple eyes, like the true High Elves!", I can already picture that.
Or maybe it's just a Vereesa-only option that got copy-pasted everywhere I guess.
It's unlikely that will happen given they would have to replace all npc's. Worst blizzard seems to do is destroy the cities.
Though it is strange how blood elves are cozying up to the highborne and Suramar. It doesnt seem out of the question, but it would be unprecedented for a faction to take over a major city of the other.
Would you trade Silvermoon for a Suramar properly fleshed out as a player city?
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Yeah that's what I was thinking, still too early tho and since in the official preview the Blood Elves have the non-teal blue eyes it could just be WIP they don't have it atm.
It does look funny tho cuz it comes off as Blizzard going 'MUST.NOT.GIVE.BLUE.EYES.' as if there's a certain sect on the time not wanting it done lol
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Still too early to tell. The new skins for instance aren't in this build I believe. There's still many months before Shadowlands is out and thus much time to see whether or not certain cosmetic options are happening or not.
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HELL YEAH it feels so good!