Quote Originally Posted by Amnmaat View Post
Moreover, where are you getting these sources that they finalized Male Viera features like scars, height max/min, tattoos, and the like?
I agree with you that scaling a character up and down isn't going to affect how armour fits (or we might not have a height setting at all) but setting the character's height range is going to be far more integral to the design process than "surface details" like scars and tattoos.

Height needs to be decided so the character's proportions can be set. They can't just set out designing the character at whatever shape they like and hope that later on they'll look alright when placed next to the other races.

At your example height scale, Viera already look wrong next to Elezen - or rather all the things that people think are wrong about Elezen designs look twice as wrong, where currently they get away with it because they are taller stretched-out versions of humans.

It's maybe possible as the meeting point between very tall Viera and short Elezen, as it is now for Highlanders and Elezen, but not to make them the same height range AND have Viera maxing out as the taller of the two.

When you started off saying they have a short option now and they should also be tall, I thought you'd assumed they were something short like Miqo'te in the form we'd seen. But if you were in fact interpreting them to be Elezen height and needing to be taller still? Yeah, nah. Something around the female height range is far more plausible. And still entirely the dev team's business.