Why Hyur Highlander don't have eyebrowns?

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Originally Posted by Medicine

Those eyebrows are obviously fake though. XD

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I honestly dont find them "obviously" fake. o.O
I think its a pretty good solution and definitely a hundred times better than going without any eyebrows.

I would be happy if they give them the option in the aesthetician and CC to toggle the eyebrows on/off much like the male Au Ra can do.

While we can use face paint to have fake eyebrows, the color palette is very very limited and makes it difficult to find the right shade to match hair color.

Since we're not going to have more facial customization options, I'd be happy to have different fake eyebrow options. The one we have right now is too thick.

To be honest, i feel like a Highlander with eyebrows would look wrong.

Just like a Miqo'te without a tail.

The lore reason is rather poor, tradition is something not followed by everyone.

The Miqo'te without tail is a bad analogy because Highlanders are born with eyebrows.

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Originally Posted by alimdia

The Miqo'te without tail is a bad analogy because Highlanders are born with eyebrows.

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Yeah, but you could also cut off the tails. :')

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Originally Posted by alimdia

The lore reason is rather poor, tradition is something not followed by everyone.

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Not necessarily true. Aren't the highlanders quite severe? The tradition itself could be heavily imposed as they are a war loving people.

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Originally Posted by ShinMetsu

Yeah, but you could also cut off the tails. :')

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Your own analogy is flying all over your head.

Highlanders are born with eyebrows but are removed from the character creation because traditionally they shave them, character creation restriction based on tradition are weird because your character is already an oddball that follows his own path, and many Highlander player would like to throw away that tradition, but they can't because of the character creation limitation.

Miqo'tes are born with tail, there's no tradition involved here, they are not removed from the character creation screen either.

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Originally Posted by Greedalox

Not necessarily true. Aren't the highlanders quite severe? The tradition itself could be heavily imposed as they are a war loving people.

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Or it could not, the point is that forcing a lore tradition on the character screen is weird. Imagine if they limited the number of male seekers of the sun that can exist in the server because traditionally there aren't many of them, or the whole clan restrictions going on with seekers.

The 'lore' reason is pretty silly. Not every Highlander is from Ala Mhigo or even cares for the place to begin with. Furthermore, why would only the men do it and not the women? It's just a flimsy excuse for an archaic and bizarre design limitation. It's a great reason for pushing for additional customisation options in the future.

At least they added a 'face paint' eyebrow option. That's something, at least...but we still need a permanent fix. Preferably sooner rather than later.

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Originally Posted by alimdia

Or it could not, the point is that forcing a lore tradition on the character screen is weird. Imagine if they limited the number of male seekers of the sun that can exist in the server because traditionally there aren't many of them, or the whole clan restrictions going on with seekers.

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Heavily disagree with this. Races/Subraces and the lore between all of it is some of the most exciting reasons to pick one thing over another. Traditionally Roe's are big, I'm sure a Roe with dwarfism would exist at some point during their existence even if we've never seen one but that doesn't necessarily mean that fringe examples should be readily available because then it directly pulls away from the lore. I honestly see zero issue with racial traditions being kept. Some restrictions exist beyond trying to piss people off.

Remember that Eorzea is a heavily racist place. Conforming within traditions is hardly far fetched.

While I can be wrong, I don't think Highlanders shaving their eyebrows is mentioned in the lorebook or any other source outside of what one of Koji fox said years ago.
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Why is it that Highlanders don't have filed teeth? Actually, I'd love for highlanders to have filed teeth but I doubt that'll ever happen.