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

[Iscah]

As for the rest of the thread, My 1000th post sage advice is that I suggest people simply use Occam's Razor...

Occam's Razor (or Thaliak's, as I've noted people say in-game) is defined on the Wikipedia page as:

when presented with competing hypotheses about the same prediction, one should select the solution with the fewest assumptions

Having applied that, given the choice between:

A) they built a special new body model to represent female Hrothgar even though they stuck a Roegadyn head on it, which does not particularly match the mural, despite the fact that they are otherwise so low-priority that the devs are putting 100% work into male Viera before turning their attention to Hrothgar, or

B) they decided early on that she had to be a Roegadyn, but wanted her to look prettier so they used a different female body model,

...B is the simpler answer and does not make the huge assumption that because it is a "new" body model, regardless of exactly how they arrived at it, it must be a Hrothgar model.


Also, the illustration of the Hrothgar queen doesn't look slender in the body at all. I think she looks more like the figure shown in the other mural seen at the end of the prologue with the queen quite frankly looking closer to Dulia-Chai than the slender Roegadyn Gunnhildr. So I have an even harder time believing the body model "must" have been built for the would-be Hrothgar Gunnhildr even if the shrine maidens in the second mural are closer to it.

In fact, looking at that again now, it seems to clearly be a stylised version of her in the same mechanical chair shown in the illustration.

(I tried to upload a screenshot but it is late and my computer is being stubborn so I will have to do it tomorrow.)


On a side note, Merlwyb sets a precedent for some individual Roegadyn to be more slender than the standard character's body shape.