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    It's interesting that the female Roegadyn have the biggest differences. Personally, I think in some ways the Miqo'te are more likely to represent Asians, while Highlanders reflect Americans, and Midlanders represent Europeans. That's just one possible alternative.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lusavari View Post
    It's interesting that the female Roegadyn have the biggest differences. Personally, I think in some ways the Miqo'te are more likely to represent Asians, while Highlanders reflect Americans, and Midlanders represent Europeans. That's just one possible alternative.
    Americans and Europeans are not terribly different, and if anything Europe is slightly taller, especially in Scandinavia. I used this chart from Wikipedia as a guide to base it off of.

    If I made the miqo'te similar in size to average Asians, all the rest of the races would become unusually tall (except Lalas of course, they're gonna be short no matter what lol). I mean, the highlanders are already taller than most existing real people and matching the very tallest measured averages, so increasing all the sizes just throws that further out of alignment. If I were to make an adjustment, IMO, it would actually be a slight reduction, but I think it's pretty good as is.
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