The cat's (or femhroth in this case) outta the bag

[reivaxe]

It makes a lot of sense if they go with this look, well if it gets translated to the game like is assumed. They'd be much more popular than the furry roes that a couple people wanted, plus, yeah, less beastlike, or protruding features, presumably less limitations..

So I just finished the Bozja storyline and... based on seeing that concept art I suspect they might use the skinny Femroe body type that Queen Gunnhildr uses as their starting point.

Not sure why people are surprised when we've already seen stylized art of fem hroths in-game during the Bozja questline and they looked similar.

Bing Bong Ding Dong, this has been what I've been saying since the Queen and the Mural got datamined. It's always been clear that the FemRoe in that story were just stand-ins for Hrothgals, and the Queen having a unique body that matched the mural (looks like an upscaled, modded Au Ra female bod from what I've seen) is because of that. Seems like, because of covid struggles probably, they decided not to model/ rig/ animate a Hrothgal head at the time.

And this isn't really "concept art" the same way as scary Demon Au Ra art is, this isn't them "throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks" to build a race, I assume this is finalized art of the queen the same way all the NPC art in these books are finalized art of those characters. This, plus the mural, very much says to me that they already know what they want Hrothgals to look like, so all that heavy lifting may have been done long ago.

It also makes sense ... the single most popular art from the past decade of the race this race was inspired by looks a lot like this face. Plus, you can't rip the devs apart about Hrothgar's nonsense and then expect them to repeat that offense again without thought.
I like it, seems to want to walk the line. Like I've said before, I'd be fine with them being Glow Up Mithra or full on FF Khajiit so long as they look pretty.

I'm interested in seeing what the Japanese have to say about this when it gets talked about more. Their wants for Hrothgals were interesting to see, in the few cases I could understand the translations of their comments.