A couple questions about Au Ra

[Eloah]

That sounds.... biologically improbable.

It's not. For certain injuries the body's natural response to to return itself to a sorta status quo. Whether that's altering the body in some way, like after a limb is lost, or something removed, or returning it to the way it once was. Age also plays a factor as the younger someone is the easier it is to "heal" from certain things. I sliced off the tip of my finger when I was young, and it grew back.

Next is a generic response to the thread

As for the whole horns and scale debacle. Just remember this, nothing about the Au ra is foreign to a human in the real world, unlike a Miqo'te. The horns are the exact same as our ears. As someone mentioned in an earlier post, other animals, that don't appear to have "ears" hear through the vibration of a bone. We are no exception; the eardrum is a thin membrane that filters vibration through a bone. Though calling Au ra horns a bone might be a bit of a stretch, they seem to act more like a form of teeth or cartilage, which are bone adjacent.

As for the scales, calling them scales isn't inaccurate, but simply referring to them as skin would be fine as well. Skin is designed to be different depending on what area of the body it covers. Au ra scales are just a more "intense" example. A good portion of people in the real world have "scales" though since this isn't the "norm" we try to remove and prevent them.