Questions about Au Ra children

What determines horn shape? Is it hereditary from either parents?

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Originally Posted by Seunkii

What determines horn shape? Is it hereditary from either parents?

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With no empirical evidence and no way to get empirical evidence, the best answers that can be given to these questions are: unknown and possibly.

(Or, if you wanna get meta, the character modelers and still unknown since PCs can't have children. Yet.)

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Originally Posted by Cilia

Let's look at real-world examples.

For the horns, let's use deer as an example (just because they're quite ubiquitous). They aren't born with antlers; males grow them later in life. I'd imagine it's somewhat similar for the Au Ra, though they probably have nubs or whatever when they're born since they're basically the Au Ra ears.

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Deer is an interesting example, reindeer in particular because often both male and female often grow antlers. Deer also shed their antlers annually, which I doubt Au Ra do, but could have interesting implications if they did.

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Originally Posted by Warr_of_Lint

Deer is an interesting example, reindeer in particular because often both male and female often grow antlers. Deer also shed their antlers annually, which I doubt Au Ra do, but could have interesting implications if they did.

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Regrowing their main hearing sensory unit annually would be incredibly inefficient biologically speaking. I highly doubt they'd do it, as that would be a terrible evolutionary trait.

In the case of the horns, it may be that rather than being born with nubs, they are born with horns fully-formed, but soft, much like how portions of an infant's skull are soft at birth. In most mammal species, ears are one of the more developed organs at birth; I would think Au Ra horns would be similar since they are functionally ears.