You can't "lock" something that doesn't exist.

[Penthea]

Sure, keep telling yourself it's because those features are "beastial".

I'd be very interested to see you explain how furry ears, furry tails, and fangs are not bestial features considering the hrothgar also have them.

Au ra, both Raen and Xaela, have far more options to make a beastial looking character if that's what you truely wanted.

I'm not sure how having patches of scales is any more bestial than having some fur and fangs? I suppose you think lizards are higher up in the bestial tree?

By the way I have an au ra alt that I play more than my main these days.

I guarantee if they were to release female Hrothgar to be as hulking and primal looking as the males are that you would have nothing to do with them.

I played Bless Online for a while, and I played a lupus. The other race options included a small cute race that could have animal features or none, elves and humans. I also had an elf character but I made her quite muscular and a bit stocky (she's a paladin so I wanted her to look physically strong) so she ended up not looking like a stereotypical slender elf.

The only reason why I was a blood elf in WoW was because of a racial I found very useful as a healer in pve and pvp. If races were purely cosmetic, I would have been a troll instead. I played competitively so every edge I could get mattered. When I retired from that scene I changed my race to troll. I ended up with tusks, a mohawk and no eyebrows.

One of my favourite characters I played in table top role playing was a half orc barbarian who dreamed of becoming a bard.

Sorry to disappoint you, but not everything I play looks like my main from FFXIV.

I'm going to ask you a question and I want you to 100% honest with me and yourself: if they never announced new races for this expansion would you be on here right now complaining about the female characters being "too cute" and "too sexy", or complaining about "muh diversity" and lack of "beastial" female races? I'm going to go ahead and take a crack at the answer and say no, you wouldn't. You'd still be playing the game and none of these "issues" would never have crossed your mind.

When I started playing this game properly it was already HW but at the time I only had a copy of ARR. So if I wanted to play a bestial race, miqo'te was my only choice. I nearly played a roe but the lion tail won me over. I didn't get a copy of HW until I was around lvl 48.

While playing I did note that the female au ra have similar proportions and height to female miqos. I appreciate that SE wanted to do some serious sexual dimorphism with the au ra, and honestly I do think that's cool, but the way they chose to do it resulted in bringing in a bit more of the same in the female spectrum. No tall and slim bestial males existed before au ra, but petite and cute bestial females already did with miqos, and for some reason SE chose to give the female au ra similar height and proportions to them.

On top of that female miqos aren't worlds apart from female midlanders. So we actually have three different races that fill the role of "slim petite female around the same size of a human" role.

This did bother me but not enough to affect my enjoyment in the game. It's when hrothgar was leaked that I started getting very annoyed. No male viera were announced so the likelihood was the "replacement" for male viera would be male hrothgar. Which would mean no female hrothgar. As you know, this is how it turned out.

Seeing male hrothgar feels like SE are almost dangling a thing I want in front of me. I played FFX so I know what female ronso looked like, and they were so cool. I'm very disappointed that female hrothgar isn't going to be playable for the foreseeable future.

And for the record I do like how my character looks. But I would make some changes if I could. I really wish there was a muscle slider for miqos, and if there was an option to make characters less slim then I would do that as well.