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

[Lastelli]

"a.pomf.cat’s server IP address could not be found." is what the link shows me. Still can't see it

Thanks for trying though.

Weird, looks like you router/antivirus/whatever is blocking that site or it's obscured in you're country.

But yeah, it really looks like a bluish/purplish miqo...I really hope the in-game model will be a little less...uninteresting.

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

even SE knows their body and skintones are disgusting

Please dont project onto the devs. Plus I havent seen anything NPC Unique for the Roes. Except maybe the leader of Limsa who is probly the only unique Roe character model.

[Fourbestintoner]

Merlwyb: Unique white skinstone, elezen body, femroes didn't exist in 1.0 so it's whatever.
Moenbryda: Hyur skintone unavailable to the player
Misija: Hyur skintone unavailable to the player, viera body
Gunnhildr: Hyur skintone unavailable to the player, viera body

[HeyMcFly]

My Body is Ready

Please- long tails too

[reivaxe]

The last thing we want is them sharing body with femroes, even SE knows their body and skintones are disgusting, femroe npcs always get unique ones unavailable to the player.

I find this attachment to "they gonna have femroe bod" so strange. Like ... all females other than Lala are based on the same model (Middies). What possible reason would they have to take the least played thing in the game and copy it? It's just as easy to just not do that and alter one of the far more popular bodies, seeing as every new race is just a remix of a past body type. We already saw with Au Ra and Viera that they don't see a need to 1:1 copy the bods of both genders the race is based on.

Even if people want to close their eyes and say that this unique body isn't supposed to be a Hrothgal body ... you still have to reconcile with the fact that the devs took the only important Femroe NPC in years and gave her a Non-Femroe body shape that looks like the far more popular females. That alone should tell you that they don't think that bod was a home run. And people keep bringing up Bun bois ... what does making Viera males look like Fuk bois have to do with anything? They took the most popular male in the game (Miqote), modded the body some and made it as tall as the 2nd most popular male in the game (Middie). If anything, that points to why this is likely the path they would take for Hrothgals.

As for the rest of the thread, My 1000th post sage advice is that I suggest people simply use Occam's Razor instead of rolling around in disconfirmation bias.
Seems clear to me that this is our Queen Gunnhildr as the Hrothgal she was supposed to be. So, she's a Hrothgal, Period.
Would be more interesting imho to talk about how, if that stuff on her head is hair, then females don't seem to have the patches of fur that the males do ... which would be great, cause that's part of the design BS that stops the males from changing their hair or having highlights. (Yes, it's pretty lame to have much of your CC memory budget eaten up by options that you only see if your character is wearing revealing glam. I'm also sure most Hrothgar don't like having to pay $10s to change hair but maybe that's just me)

[Echoingadvent]

I feel like this needs to be posted here since a lot of people forget, or didn't read any of the field notes, But Gunnhilder is nothing more than a title given to the reigning Queen. the follow pulled straight from the field notes on Gunnhilder

In days of yore, civil war raged on amongst the races of Bozja. This bloody, protracted struggle was at long last brought to an end when the land was united under the rule of a single queen. “Gunnhildr” was the name and title given to this first monarch, and one all those who followed her would inherit.

The queens of Bozja were not chosen from families of illustrious lineage, but rather from among the shamans who communed with the ancient gods. Only those deemed most favored by the gods─as manifested in their ability to read the stars─were chosen for the role, regardless of race or heritage. Though the vast majority of the Bozjan queens were Hrothgar, this was merely a matter of mathematics, as Hrothgar boasted the largest population of the land's many races.

So the concept art shown could literally be A miqo or an early design of fem hrothgar

[MsQi]

I don't see why people are upset. It looks like a quick sketch of female Ronso. Pretty much exactly how they look in FFX. The difference is that the Queen has a rounder face and bigger booba which does not a beast race unmake.

I would withhold judgement until we actually see them in concept art that is supposed to highlight their features.

You're right, it leaves a lot up to imagination/interpretation.

[Lihtleita]

Merlwyb: Unique white skinstone, elezen body, femroes didn't exist in 1.0 so it's whatever.
Moenbryda: Hyur skintone unavailable to the player
Misija: Hyur skintone unavailable to the player, viera body
Gunnhildr: Hyur skintone unavailable to the player, viera body

....none of these have "unique bodies" (save merlwyb maybe)
gunnhildrs GEAR replaces her body with one like viera, similar to how the 2b boots and tights alter the shape of your legs.
and skintone is just a hex number, you used to be able to inject custom ones into the client waaaay back when.


tldr; when ppl say hrothgal will use femroe body, they mean that in the same way male hrothgar use the male roe body, borrowing proportions, not that they will literally be moenbryda from the neck down

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

You're right, it leaves a lot up to imagination/interpretation.

My Complaint looking at that picture is just the face. It looks more human then beast which is the one true thing Im sure most people in this camp are concerned about.
Id love it if they were tall and followed suit with the males and get the Roe body, but its not the end of the world if they arn't. I can get over that and I think in time others will, and people might even like it more. But the One design detail to worry about, is the face.

The Ronso from FFX have muzzle. Sure its short, but it doesnt look human. Plus probly at a profile angle it will probly look like a real muzlze as suppose to looking at the front.

[MoofiaBossVal]

The concept art looks nice!

I don't get the complaints that "she doesn't look beastial". Neither did male Hrothgar. When I think of a beast race, I think of Charr, or Tauren, or Worgen. They're hunched over, have monstrous faces, have very different anatomy than that of a human, etc. They feel like actual beastmen.





Male Hrothgar aren't beastmen. They're just bulky humans with long hair, a slightly stlyized face, a slight hunch, and human anatomy. Female Hrothgar having some slight fur and a slightly stylized face would fit right in. If FFXIV was serious about giving us a true beast race, male Hrothgar would have looked something like the above or Amal'jaa or Vanu Vanu, and female Hrothgar could look beastial, like this:




If this is going to be the last time the devs make a new race, they're going to try to squeeze as much money out of it as they can. The devs know their audience. Most people who play FFXIV like anime aesthetics. Ie, beautiful women. As much as people on twitter says otherwise, they're a vocal minority. The unpopularity of female Roes compared to the popularity of traditionally beautiful female races speaks for itself. Female Hrothgar looking like a human with cat ears is a "well, duh" to me.