Au Ra physiology and other lore.

[Belhi]

I imagine the Horns would both be very hard and have an outer 'dead' layer that acted as a sheath to protect the auditory nerves. Otherwise they would be extremely impractical.

It's worth considering they don't put armour over their horns which might mean nothing but in this game races with pointy ears do have armour for those ears on head gear, something which after seeing it I realised was a actually extremely smart. Just having them poking up through a helmet would just be asking for them to get cut off. The lack of armour on Au Ra horns makes me feel that their horns are actually very durable.

[lilirulu]

The mental imagery of the Au Ra mating is now firmly stuck in my head.

Thanks, Lili.

You said it anyway!

Anyway yes, what I'm insinuating is that the larger frame of Au Ra males doesn't mean their penis is too big for the females. At the same time, just because female Au Ra have smaller frames doesn't necessarily mean their vaginas are too shallow or narrow to accommodate the male's penis, whether or not it's longer than, say, a Hyran penis. Of course it's also very possible Auri sex organs are the same size, proportionally, as average Hyuran sex organs.

Thanks for ruining the joke, man!

That it does! And though reproduction and physical intimacy is something many people shy away from talking about, it's a very important subject in regards to physiology (or rather biology).

Personally, I was content to keep using euphemisms and dirty jokes, but some people just couldn't take the hint...

You're all welcome.

Just be glad this wasn't a conversation on if miqo'te penises are barbed or not. Because that's definitely not a pretty image.

[Niwashi]

Yeah it seems that their horns function in a way similar to the ones togruta have.. i am guessing that they pick up vibrations and turn them in to sound? I just hope that doesn't mean that getting one damaged is akin to breaking your eardrum x.x;; because ow..

They could serve in much the same way as a human's (or other mammal's) outer ear. Our outer ear just sort of channels sound vibrations, directing them towards the inner ear where the eardrum registers them. Figure there's a tiny ear hole right at the base of the horn...er, cranial projection and the projection just channels sound towards it. If it channels sound more effectively than our own outer ear, it could be associated with enhanced hearing. (I don't have a theory yet about the enhanced spatial recognition, though.)

I wonder...will the earrings go on the horns?

That would be my guess.

[Kaiser-Ace]

I love horn rings on character designs! Horns that are supposedly the instruments of hearing getting piercings on the other hand, I'm just imagining how uncomfortable that would be at first. Dx Granted there are probably parts that aren't sensitive.

I'm thinking the Horns are more of an echolocation thing than their actual ears. I'm willing to bet they have proper Humanoid Ears (Maybe pointy maybe not) and the Horns act as an extrasensory "Vibration" detector. Like how the concept of the Aura works in Pokemon. Lucario closes its eyes and focuses and uses a super-sensory sixth sense.

[LycorisSelunis]

Yeah it seems that their horns function in a way similar to the ones togruta have.. i am guessing that they pick up vibrations and turn them in to sound? I just hope that doesn't mean that getting one damaged is akin to breaking your eardrum x.x;; because ow..

Also since I brought it up I sort of wonder at the difference in scale colors, generally what has attributed to current differences in subraces has been their territorial habits at work(seekers and keepers, mid and highlanders ect) so what could have happened to make their scales become their current color.. I wonder if maybe xaela scales are harder or thicker because of their warlike nature, or if the vivid black is like a "warning" color

While I would say the darker scales could be a whole nomad-in-the-sun thing, their skintones do not reflect this...
Also wondering if one subrace will have longer tails like the Miqo'te do.

AS for earrings on horns, who knows?! I was wondering the same thing.

[Dererk]

Based on what was said, it seems like their horns will be their "ears"

about horns their like nails the part that is attached to the base in horns is the head has a sort of cartilage like tissue that will continue to grow so long as this isn't broken.
Iv seen cattle being dehorned so as to protect other livestock as well as the people who raise them you'd need to cut dead to even get to this stuff that's the only thing that hurts.

So I can see them having holes drilled into the hard part of their horns to have earrings.

It be pretty gruesome if you ask me if they dehorn their own kind as a mark of shame like how the Amish would shave the people in their community if they did something they don't like and yes its a hate crime.

[Niwashi]

about horns their like nails the part that is attached to the base in horns is the head has a sort of cartilage like tissue that will continue to grow so long as this isn't broken.
Iv seen cattle being dehorned so as to protect other livestock as well as the people who raise them you'd need to cut dead to even get to this stuff that's the only thing that hurts.

I'm not sure how much we can correlate real world horns to what the Au Ra have. The description actually distinguishes them with a different term at one point, where it says "enhanced hearing and spatial recognition granted by an Au Ra's cranial projections (traits not attributed to draconian horns)". Of course, it's not entirely consistent about that, as earlier in the same paragraph it says "The curved horns and beautifully patterned scales that characterize the Au Ra ..."

Not entirely clear, but it sounds as though what the Au Ra have look like horns and can therefore be colloquially referred to as "horns", but in a strict biological sense are something distinct from genuine horns.

[Kedrah]

I think they're still just horns, but they just wanted to make a clear distinction specifically between their horns and dragons' horns.

[Lydeck]

So I see the forum got the naming convention threads condensed into a single post ... does this mean we're finally going to get the damn Auri naming conventions this weekend? Not sure why they're holding it back.

[Unholychinchilla]

So I see the forum got the naming convention threads condensed into a single post ... does this mean we're finally going to get the damn Auri naming conventions this weekend? Not sure why they're holding it back.

If the benchmark has the random name thingy in it (can't remember if the original one asks for a character name) then that'd show us the types of names we might see, they may want to show it off there first and then give us the conventions that behind those names to increase the hype factor around the benchmark.

Just my guess.