How old is Ryne???? (Slight 5.2 Spoilers)

[Limonia]

Except we're comparing Ryne to other female characters in the same setting, though. Ryne is short even among FFXIV women. I think the only people shorter are the actual clear children, eg Khloe. (EDIT: And Lalafell, but that's assumed.)

Exactly. She is tiny compared to Hyur standards, even to Au Ra standards. It's like they took a Hyur child and just used a Midlander model, without correcting the height.
The problem is that there aren't really any teenager models in FF14. They can either use children and make them look a little taller, or use the normal characters and make them look young by making them small and give them unique faces.

(Without heels, Gaia would be even shorter than Ryne... btw., I was so surprised as Ryne mentioned Gaia is about her age. I thought she was supposed in her late thirties...)

Remember that on Japan girls of 1'70m are considered very tall and on many japanese works is not rare to see a decent ammount of female characters shorter than 1'50m specially if they are still on their growing phase

To me women of 170 cm are huge as well. xD
Is it common for Japanese teenagers to grow later? Here (Central/Western Europe), even on the lowest percentile (about where I am on), you're supposed to be like 10-15 cm taller than Ryne is at about 14-16 years. If you're smaller than 150 cm at age 14-15, you're below the lowest percentile, which are about 3% or so. She is too small for her age. That's why I was surprised that she is so "developed" and thought they were just lazy and didn't want to give her a custom/child model.