Au Ra physiology and other lore.

[LycorisSelunis]

It seems also that in this version of the benchmark you can't change the scale color, even though raen have been shown with coppery scales and xaela with inky blue. at least I didn't see it working on making my raen.

[KaijinRhada]

The vibrancy of the skin is rather surprising. You can get some fairly red and green skin tones for Raen while Xaela have more pronounced blue and purple shades. I was expecting one to tend to warm colours with the other leaning to cool colours, but the extent of which they do was a nice surprise.

Still sad over the horns and faces being connected, oh the conundrums.

[Cilia]

Yeah, there's no way to mess with the scale coloration. While some renders and screenshots did show them with greater variation, it might not have made it into the benchmark, or maybe it was just a cut feature. The lore for the clans does describe their scales as "brilliant white" and "lustrous black," so either way I don't think changing the scale / horn color is going to be available upon release.

I was kind of disappointed facial and horn structures were linked too; fortunately, using Eye Type 3 typically overcomes the "cutefase" dilemma. Exception is Face Type 4, which makes it look downright menacing.

... and if there was any lingering doubt, no, Au Ra do not have ears; that's what their cranial projections are for. Make sure to punch Ilberd twice as hard for throwing you on the floor now!

[KaijinRhada]

A curious thing I noticed with male Au Ra, the scales for face three (? maybe three, it's the lower left option) appear detached from his face. Though looking at the lower right face, there's a bit of detachment happening as well. I'm rather unsure if it's intended or not, it seems more like a graphical oversight.

[Lizbet]

So for a race that has a demon-based background (instead of dragon), the females DO NOT look very demonic the same way the males can be made to, and that kind of upsets me. I get that SE wants to keep its player base happy with cutesy cat girl/waifish midlander faces and such, but come on, SE you could have given us at least one face option that could be made to look truly demonic and scary! (That one face option for the Xaela DOES NOT count). All it would really take is to add maybe a set of the femroe eyes & their eye shape options to the new Au Ra face options.

As it stands, the female Au Ras are just catgirls and midlanders with some scales and horns. Not good enough, SE! You can do better!

[PArcher]

So for a race that has a demon-based background (instead of dragon), the females DO NOT look very demonic the same way the males can be made to, and that kind of upsets me. I get that SE wants to keep its player base happy with cutesy cat girl/waifish midlander faces and such, but come on, SE you could have given us at least one face option that could be made to look truly demonic and scary! (That one face option for the Xaela DOES NOT count). All it would really take is to add maybe a set of the femroe eyes & their eye shape options to the new Au Ra face options.

As it stands, the female Au Ras are just catgirls and midlanders with some scales and horns. Not good enough, SE! You can do better!

You know, succubi look like really cute/gorgeous/attractive women...until youre in bed with them, and they kill you (which then...you kinda dont remember)

[myahele]

Would've been nice to have atleast 1 face option that had a "fierce" look similar to males

[Lizbet]

Would've been nice to have atleast 1 face option that had a "fierce" look similar to males

Exactly! I can make even a Midlander look fierce/scary (see headshot), or at least like you shouldn't mess with her, but I'm not sure that one Au Ra option will meet even that low bar.

[Risvertasashi]

As it stands, the female Au Ras are just catgirls and midlanders with some scales and horns. Not good enough, SE! You can do better!

For one they're not necessarily demonic but...

Limbal rings. Red eyes. Pick an unnatural skin tone, something greyish say. Pick the face with a deadened expression. Play around with the scale options till it suits you. And bingo, demon dragon girl.

Or demon peiste girl. Or whatever they are.

[Cilia]

It is tough to overcome the cutefase with Auri women, but it can be done with a little effort, even if you don't go with Face Type 4 - Eye Type 3.

... okay I say a little, but it took the lion's share of my day that probably would have been better spent doing programming work. Still, I think I got it, even if it's still leaning a bit towards "cute." I'll post images if I get around to making a photodump or something.