I'm having a small crisis at the moment.

I noticed that my au ra doesn't have ears. is this normal? am i deaf? how am i wearing earrings!? :confused::confused::mad:

Yeah au ra don't have ears they apparently hear through their horns, which... I hate...
One brush against the horns will send some absolutely disabling pain to their hearing bits really...

Sounds is generated by vibration of air particles around the horns.

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Originally Posted by Roda

Yeah au ra don't have ears they apparently hear through their horns, which... I hate...
One brush against the horns will send some absolutely disabling pain to their hearing bits really...

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Oh god. i imagine some asshole smacking them with a metal object just to be a dick.

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Originally Posted by Valdima

Oh god. i imagine some asshole smacking them with a metal object just to be a dick.

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That has to have happened to an Au Ra tank at least once.

You bore a hole through the horn. They semi explained it in a lore panel.

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Originally Posted by SannaR

You bore a hole through the horn. They semi explained it in a lore panel.

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.. Ouch? it doesn't sound very pleasnt. :(

You have to make sure to put a cork over the hole so it doesn't fill with spiders in your sleep.

And this is why I promptly unequipped earrings on my Au Ra alt until I could use glamours to hide them.

That said, most of the faces have character-creator options for unique horn decorations, including flat plates that must need to be physically attached somehow.

I would picture the issue with normal earrings to be not so much with just being there, but the noise and vibrations they would make as they swing around. So the fixed plates make more sense in that way.

I think I recall something about Xaela adapting their combat style to avoid damaging/breaking each other's horns and it bringing a great shame if you did so?

Forget the earrings, think about all the helmets. Just trying to squeeze one on must be a nightmare.

Although, tbf, it looks like it'd be pretty painful for Elezen as well.

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Originally Posted by Valdima

.. Ouch? it doesn't sound very pleasnt. :(

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Well, pretty much like piercing your ears

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Originally Posted by Celef

Well, pretty much like piercing your ears

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piercing bone/keratin is much more painful than piercing flesh.

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Originally Posted by Valdima

how am i wearing earrings!? :confused::confused::mad:

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On your nipples, maybe.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...-do-Au-ra-hear

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Originally Posted by Zojha

IIRC, the answer was:"They pick up vibrations over their horns, which are hollow."

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Originally Posted by Mansion

On your nipples, maybe.

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I wish we could do this.

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Originally Posted by Valdima

I noticed that my au ra doesn't have ears

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It is from June 23, 2015 that we knew all Au Ra are as that.
Better later than never, 'tho!
As said in above answers, race's ears are the horns.

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Originally Posted by Fawkes

You have to make sure to put a cork over the hole so it doesn't fill with spiders in your sleep.

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thanks, I didn't want to sleep tonight anyway.