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I think the point is that elf culture isn’t monolithic in the way classic fantasy has very pale, often blond elves as “good ones” and darker skinned elves as “the bad ones” but rather to demonstrate a variety of skin tones as Elf culture ranging this variety, the current elf queen being one of these ebony-skinned elves. Basically I think it’s a design choice not to box in elves to having very European characteristics, but rather to clarify that as a race, elves are more identified by their androgynous presentations and then just have a variety of skin tones, much like how Kabru, Kiki&Kaka, Laios and Rinsha are all Tallmen with differient skintones

The in-universe conceit about the black-skinned, silver-haired, red-eyed elves is that it’s a rare genetic trait that is seen in Elf culture as a portent of royalty. The Queen of the Western Elves has these features, and Flamela joined the Canaries to avoid getting pulled into royal politics because none of the Queen’s direct relatives have those features and the Queen had previously adopted Flamela’s sister, who was killed as a result of court intrigue. Seems like it’s a sort of reverse albinism thing. Edit: as per the fairies, fairies take on the appearance of the mage that cares for them. The queen’s fairy and Mithrun’s fairy don’t look like them because they both have attendants that care for their fairies for them.

There's this that kind of expands on it. It is also noted that several of the elves like Mithrun have naturally silver hair from birth though the queen and Flamela seem to have a lighter silver which may be more rare. Mithrun also has silver eyes and it's known to be a trait of his noble family line is known for. The elf that made the queen's fairy also seems to have red eyes and light silver hair too. Considering that Flamela parents didn't have black skin and she and her sister were seen as special it probably that black skin is a recessive gene It could be like being a albino since the ones with obsidian colored skin elves all seem to have red eyes and silver hair and it's linked with relatives.

It actually is because some elves have pure black skin and the fairies they create inherit their creators skin tone. The pure black skin is part of the elven royal lineage. However, blood is a powerful item for spellcasting. Since fairies inherit qualities from their creators, their blood can be used as a substitute for the others blood. People of high importance will use fairies made by other people to prevent their own blood from falling into the wrong hands.

In universe lore wise, it is just another phenotype that elves exhibit. It seems to be correlated to their royal family with some stuff in the adventurers bible describing how there was a succession issue because an heir didn't look a certain way. Not too much is expanded upon this but it seems like there isn't different in treatment (except for some possible respect because of their ties to the royal family). Out of universe, Ryoko Kui is heavily inspired by table top RPGs, with one of her biggest being the Wizardry Rpg/DRPG as well as a consumer of a lot of fantasy stuff like Pathfinder, Baldurs Gate. Elves with "non-human" skin tones like Jet black, blue...ect skin is their own thing and not analogous to our own world's ethnicities.

I'ts one of the most popular interpretations on dark elves, a very common subspecies of elves in fantasy... ...which is based on norse folklore, where they are called either svartalfar (literally black elves) and/or dokkalfar (dark elves). Because of a serious case of lack of conserved written literature on the topic and christian-hijacked posterior literature, we in fact can't be sure if those were two words for the same species of elf, separate species of elves, or if svartafar were in fact dwarves. Because "alfar", the word from where "elf" is derived, actually means just "white". Which has lead to theories that these suposed "elves" where called that because all of them had white hair, but again, no proper way of knowing because lack of reliable sources

It's not meant to be indicative of race like we think it. They have variable skin color like Tallmen. Iirc every one in awhile elves are spontaneously born with coal black skin like we see with Queen of the Elves and it's seen as a prestigious thing. Like actually spontaneously, like one in a set of twins has the parent's skin tone and the other coal black. I can't find the reference where I saw this though. Maybe I'm crossing wires with something else like Unicorn Overlord.

I’m Swedish and the answer is yes but let me yap for a bit. “elves” in folklore is somewhat strange. This type of elves kinda don’t exist but also kinda do. The word for “elf”(alv) and “fairy”(älva) is / was the same in Swedish until we needed a word for Tolkiens elves and one of Icelandic words for “fairy” was chosen which is also close to the old name for fairy. That said the idea a fairy was slightly different here than the typical little person with wings being feminine or gender neutral humanoid creatures that’d dance at dawn and dusk. They are never alone and non are named. Even today when you see the type of mist that sometimes drift over fields especially in fall you can say “look the fairies are dancing over the fields”. Depending on texts elves are described as nature spirit or even gods. There are two families/ type of gods in Norse mythology Asarna who are the main gods of civilization(Thor, Odin and so on). Then there where the Vaner who where more so gods of nature and fertility (only three gods are said to be Vaner and they where taken as hostages / wards after a war between the Vaner and Asarna; Njord, Frey and Freya (father and twin children). They come from a different world on the world tree from humans and the other gods and are heavily associated with elves. They could even be synonymous in some contexts. Frey especially lives in Alfheim (translates to “the elves land/home”). Snorri Sturluson (who was Christian which is worth noting especially when talking his description of elves) did describe elves like this: “there are light elves that live in heaven and dark elves that lives down in the earth and are blacker than pitch”. Later it appears he may mean the same thing when saying dark elves and dwarfs and also he uses “Asar and elves” to potentially say “all gods”. TLDR: Snorri Sturluson described elves as “there are light elves that live in heaven and dark elves that lives down in the earth and are blacker than pitch”. https://preview.redd