A suggestion regarding height.

[Samcaesar]

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It's SE's lore, they can always change it. "Au Ra are generally have massive sexual dimorphism, this mixed clan "Xaela" tribe's unique thing is it doesn't do that".

What roots are you talking about?

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Well no duh, the tallest guy in real life was 8'7, so pretty sure you're not as tall as the tallest guys in real life either. Unless if I'm in a room with a bunch of really tall guys, I'm still taller than the average guy. Changing the Au Ra to allow it as an option doesn't kills the design decision, if it's listed as something rare then the racial design remains perfectly fine while also giving players more options.

I don't get why you're so offended over the idea of the heights being equalized for the sexes of each race, it gives players more significant options with regards to character customization without taking anything except for the ability to go from a third of an inch in height to two thirds of an inch for each height slider tick. We don't have massive giants, Elves, scaly people, and cat people in real life, and yet having girls that are just as tall as the guys are when you stamp your foot in the ground and go "Sorry, that's not like real life so I don't approve!"

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Yeah seriously, if the proportions looked odd whenever they were big, they looked odd whenever they were small too. Let's be honest folks if you wanna say "Girl Au Ra that big have stupidly big heads!" the big heads aren't new, you're just now noticing it.

You know what I'd love? If SE actually took the time to explain why on earth the Au Ra women can't be tall, because currently it's an arbitrary and absolutely nonsensical "lol just cause". Seriously, there's a tribe that practiced selective breeding in an attempted to make their tribe taller and it only works for the men, while the women stayed as short as ever. I'm sorry SE, but that's literally not how it works, if selective breeding manages to cause height growth for the guys, it'd do the same for the girls as well.

Like.. This is a weird race with plenty of "weird biology = unique tribe!" sorta instances with the Xaela, like the tribe with a high twin birthrate or how one tribe's thing is they spent centuries up in snowy glacial environment and now their skin tone has changed to be all rustic red (Which seems to be an anomaly as it's the unique tribe's thing). Heck the Au Ra themselves don't even follow their own lore, guy Raen have like light brown scales and Yugiri has freaking rainbow scales, Raen are to have "brilliant white scales", while girl Xaela have dark blue scales and not "lustrous black". I really don't see why "And tribe x managed to find a way to encourage immense high growth in the women of the race, their women easily standing out compared to the normally short Auri women." or "Tribe y's men have a notable distinct trait of not going through the massive growth spurt that Auri men normally experience" is such a bizarre and rejected idea, it doesn't even betray the race as it puts this as a rare, unique trait of the tribe.

Thank you for posting that gif and those edits by the way! I haven't had the time to do it myself.