How do Au'ra hear?

Specific quote from the english lore book:

"They take great pride in the majestic horns that protrude from the sides of their head, which also serve to enhance hearing and a sense of spatial awareness"

Essentially the horns ARE their ears.

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Originally Posted by Riardon

How the hear is not one of tough questions about them.
There are other more intriguing questions about them.
Like how they sleep.
How they kiss if they kiss.
How they you know "relieve" their stress.
How they can wear clothes with scales and horns. (their attires seem the normal ones everyone has so no special designs for them).
Why they look so angry all the time.

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Net hammocks.
Carefully.
Vigorously.
Flesh scales are akin to leathery underbelly scales, tough and flexible; not hard like the hollow horns.
Resting bitch face.

Source: Au'Ra Husband

So basically the horns cover and protect their external acoustic meatus while also acting as a mean of noise enhancement and they lack the fleshy pinna seen on the other races altogether.

I wonder how they deal with infections there? Would they get more or less then hyurs and such do? Would horn-based parasites, like mites, be a thing?

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Originally Posted by Texa

So basically the horns cover and protect their external acoustic meatus while also acting as a mean of noise enhancement and they lack the fleshy pinna seen on the other races altogether.

I wonder how they deal with infections there? Would they get more or less then hyurs and such do? Would horn-based parasites, like mites, be a thing?

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I could see infections, mites or parasites happening if the horn was broken (which they heal over time- they don't stay broken). Otherwise, it looks like the horn is completely closed off.

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Originally Posted by Riardon

Why they look so angry all the time.

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to me au ra never looks angry, the problem here is what their face gets a rather neutral look emotion, and depending from your viewpoint, they will look angry neutral or happy

basically i see me character face most of the time as :| instead of the so said >:-( what most people see for some reason

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Originally Posted by Xau

to me au ra never looks angry, the problem here is what their face gets a rather neutral look emotion, and depending from your viewpoint, they will look angry neutral or happy

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Aye, here's couple "examples" I had uploaded earlier.

http://i.imgur.com/jNHjAQs.png
http://i.imgur.com/p5ToOS6.png
http://i.imgur.com/jaCH635.png
http://i.imgur.com/2dgBOWB.png
http://i.imgur.com/BkRz02a.png

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Originally Posted by Anzaman

Aye, here's couple "examples" I had uploaded earlier.

http://i.imgur.com/jNHjAQs.png
http://i.imgur.com/p5ToOS6.png
http://i.imgur.com/jaCH635.png
http://i.imgur.com/2dgBOWB.png
http://i.imgur.com/BkRz02a.png

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Definitely depends on the face. The 1st option typically will have a very indifferent look about them, almost pompous or stiff if you do it right. The 4th option, the curved horns can easily have a seriously powerful RBF. Especially with the rings in their eyes if they are of a very pale color can give a sharp glare.

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Originally Posted by Lewtskie

Definitely depends on the face. The 1st option typically will have a very indifferent look about them, almost pompous or stiff if you do it right. The 4th option, the curved horns can easily have a seriously powerful RBF. Especially with the rings in their eyes if they are of a very pale color can give a sharp glare.

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Yeah, here's another template I've saved with face/horn #4.

http://i.imgur.com/lnQ6xx0.png

We can also be creepy Au ra :P
Everything depends on the angle and the lighting.

http://imgur.com/q8jaPXI.png

By the way, I have seen au'ra male who look intellectual, others more shy and not always angry!

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Originally Posted by Lambdafish

Specific quote from the english lore book:

"They take great pride in the majestic horns that protrude from the sides of their head, which also serve to enhance hearing and a sense of spatial awareness"

Essentially the horns ARE their ears.

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So, cutting an Au Ra's ears off is basically like cutting a cat's whiskers? They can't walk straight ever again?

Always amazed by people asking how Au Ra sleep on their horns.
That always tells me they have never slept on curlers, or with their hair knotted into a super tight bun and stuff like that :rolleyes:

Basically, you can sleep on anything, no matter how hard or "uncomfortable" it may seem, as long as you are used to it.
Auri people have horns all their life, so I'd assume they ARE used to it :p

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Originally Posted by Galaktica

AuRa-lly

:D

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Hahahahahahaha I literally only just signed into this forum thing for the first time in my life just so I could tell you how much I appreciate this pun.

I don't know how this thread got found and pulled up from the depths of the forum, but as luck would have it we've been discussing this in the Lore forum this week!

Well you see it magic my dude.

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Originally Posted by cyborgmermaid

Bone vibration through the horns. Humans actually have something similar, which is why we can hear our own voice so clearly when we speak, and why it sounds so different to us than to everyone who hears it the normal way. So then of course one could very easily make the argument that the would sounds slightly different to Au Ra than it does to everyone else.

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Things would sound drastically different between the various horn styles.

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Originally Posted by GMERC

[...] just as Miqo'te are not cats.

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My life is a lie.

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Originally Posted by MsQi

Things would sound drastically different between the various horn styles.

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Hearing different things doesn't matter so long as they translate to the same meaning at the end of it. It's like how you can't really prove people see the same colors, but they know that a color with certain RGB values is called "red" or "blue". Even if your red is closer to what I see as blue, for instance.
Assuming that sound translation is in effect when they speak too - so that when we need them to say "ah" they say "ah", even if what they hear is "oh" - then there won't be a problem of communication.

They use headsets!

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Originally Posted by BillyKaplan

Hearing different things doesn't matter so long as they translate to the same meaning at the end of it. It's like how you can't really prove people see the same colors, but they know that a color with certain RGB values is called "red" or "blue". Even if your red is closer to what I see as blue, for instance.
Assuming that sound translation is in effect when they speak too - so that when we need them to say "ah" they say "ah", even if what they hear is "oh" - then there won't be a problem of communication.

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The design of the external human ear works with our brains for directional awareness. Sound from various directions has very slight changes (timing and frequency) due to the specific shape of our ears. There is variation from person to person but the same parts are there in most cases. Since they are all roughly the same, and leave a lot of the sound unfiltered we all hear roughly the same frequency response. What you hear also affects how you speak. Since the horns filter everything that come in then they have a greater effect on frequency response than our outer ears. The different horn shapes are likely to result in different emphasis on consonants. I suppose their society would adapt but to outsiders they would probably seem to have different "accents".