Female Hrothgar as a playable race. Show your support!

[Luluna]

I feel they will be shown on the new caster job at the final fanfest but if they are not revealed at London then I am unsure we will get them...I also am unsure on the voice at the end saying "My home" I thought that was Erenvile just speaking in a softer tone and not a female voice.

[Pip_Chick]

You'll forgive me if I don't read through the 462 pages of this thread.... Would someone be able to give me the quick rundown of Square's official stance regarding female Hrothgar? Any details at all that they may have given regarding their design? Last I heard, we only got a picture of the queen from that one art book.

My personal opinion is that we should have large Hrothgar ladies with a buff physique. I'd rather this not be a WoW situation where the female variant of races is -- by default -- typically a smaller, more petite, prettier version of the men. We already have that situation with the Au Ra and you're of no shortage with conventionally attractive ladies with the other races. I believe that women deserve to have the option to be fierce, imposing beasts if they so choose. There is also currently only one option for large ladies and that's with the female Roegadyn. It would also give further variety to bodily shapes in the world.

I hope this post finds all of you forum-goers well!

There are I think 3 different art pieces in reference to Female Hrothgar: the artbook (as you said) and the 2 murals shown in Bozja, all those depict female Hrothgar as a taller Miquo'te. But there is hope they will do it right since those art pieces were shown way before they would've started working on male Viera or landed on a design for female Hrothgar.
At the EW fan fest after the Male Viera reveal they confirmed that they are going to add female Hrothgar, but gave no date as to when they will be added. A lot of people hope that it will be in 7.0, but there is no guarantee. They were asked again about them in the Q&A section of the first live letter after 6.0 and confirmed that they did not start working on them, they just had their artists make some designs and ended up choosing between 2.
And that is all we know.

I hope they will be shown in October, the EU fan fest usually gets the new race reveals and it will land perfectly before the New lore book which had one of the preview pages the Hrothgar, with a chance of the females also being shown.
Have a great day!

[Pip_Chick]

I feel they will be shown on the new caster job at the final fanfest but if they are not revealed at London then I am unsure we will get them...I also am unsure on the voice at the end saying "My home" I thought that was Erenvile just speaking in a softer tone and not a female voice.

That was definitely a female voice and not Erenville. Though it is not certain that the voice belongs to a female Hrothgar, it could be a female Midlander or a female Mamool Ja. Though personally, I would hope for a female Hrothgar.

[Luluna]

That was definitely a female voice and not Erenville. Though it is not certain that the voice belongs to a female Hrothgar, it could be a female Midlander or a female Mamool Ja. Though personally, I would hope for a female Hrothgar.

I actually think you are right I was listening to the end not the beginning when Erenvile speaks to Derplander my bad got a lot on rl atm so did not listen to the trailer again until just now. I really hope it is female Hrothgar and this is quite hopeful ^O^

[DamianFatale]

Honestly this! They have no reason to push 2 announcements at once since 1 might overshadow the other. Like it was with RPR, female Au'Ra showcased the job preview, the official art had a male Hrothgar and in the job poster it was a male Viera.
Looking back on it, it makes sense as to why they didn't show female Hrothgar in the graphic update video. While I thought it would be a great segway for their reveal trailer, in reality it could either have overshadow the graphic update for people like me who only cared about the Female Hrothgar reveal, or overshadow their reveal from people who cared more of the graphical update. It would have been a loose loose situation.
Though I still think they could have given NA the reveal, since they get the least amount of new expansion info for their dollar. But that's just me.

I see it as the graphic video simply doesn’t apply to female Hrothgar at all. When they come out there will be no graphical update. It will just be a race dropped with the new graphics, with no update needed.

[Pip_Chick]

I see it as the graphic video simply doesn’t apply to female Hrothgar at all. When they come out there will be no graphical update. It will just be a race dropped with the new graphics, with no update needed.

I just hope they will show them in EU, so that I can rest assured that the new Lore book will also have them.

[LinaAkayomi]

-EW fanfest confirmed they would be made

-A couple of patches ago in a Q&A session Yoshi said the design team had 2 concepts they liked

Nothing since then. They’ll possibly appear in the next fanfest keynote (October), lore book (December), or final fanfest (January).

I'd be inclined to think that they'll be revealed alongside one of the new jobs.
If they reveal both at the JP Fan Fest, then we gotta wait till January 2024
If they reveal one job on each Fan Fest, maybe we'll see them on EU Fan Fest on October 2023
If they're too busy, we probably won't get them until after the fanfests, on some Letter from the Producer made between January 2023 and Summer 2024

My best, safest bet at the moment would be JP Fan Fest on 2024

[Lord_Umbra]

If they're basically Miqo but buff I bet they'll save it for JP fest like when announced originally at ShB Fan Fest no Male Viera at JP fest which until JP fest Yoshi just kept being very vague about male Viera, they know JP wont boo them off stage like NA/EU likely would, they save all bad announcements for JP cause NA/EU are a rowdy bunch like all screaming at devs even when they weren't engaging the audience this week don't really see that in JP fest unless Yoshida ask the crowd a question.

[Pip_Chick]

If they're basically Miqo but buff I bet they'll save it for JP fest like when announced originally at ShB Fan Fest no Male Viera at JP fest which until JP fest Yoshi just kept being very vague about male Viera, they know JP wont boo them off stage like NA/EU likely would, they save all bad announcements for JP cause NA/EU are a rowdy bunch like all screaming at devs even when they weren't engaging the audience this week don't really see that in JP fest unless Yoshida ask the crowd a question.

I could see this being a thing, I even speculated back in the day that they didn't say anything about male Viera and just presented male Hrothgar at the JP fan fest because the JP players are less likely to make a scene, boo, or even cheer too much.
I would absolutely hate it if the Female Hrothgar were taller and slightly buffer Miquo'te. But I resigned myself to it. I will go with whatever SE decides it's better for the game and just hope they make the right decision to give people who like playing female Beast races something nice. I would love something akin to Khajiit from ESO, but right now as long as they are tall and have a tail I'll be fine, but something more akin to Karmaho's art, specifically the: RDM, SCH, DRK, WHM, BLM and RPR would be my favourite body/face fan rendition of what Female Hrothgar could hopefully look like. ~a girl can dream...

[GTK0HLK]

Quite a Read after the forum gives me the "last login since 14 days ago" due to my 3 week break from login.
[despite the fact I was logged in day of, the updating of when you login is sllllloooooowwww]

Surprised to see the potential concept of Female Hrothgar voicing in the teaser(if not a female of another race) has spread as much as it did.
<saw that someone made a reference to it in a stream chat the other day. Caught by surprise, but we all of course don't only chat/discuss in the forums alone.>

it would be a nice surprised, just like kriles lettering was a obvious New World link to me.[unless they spin it some other way]
Though the Gemstone Mount was a after the fact obvious clue to the mamoolja/new world.

(I'll probably keep jokingly call people to prepare for the long March to the next 2 fanfests if I see sadness in the chat.)
[Though me personally, I couldn't settle for nothing other than what we all generally want-not when it comes to quality, just the basic wants- but I write this with the thought that while the larger community will be indifferent <but understanding, since many people know others/have friends who want Female Hrothgars> it would have an effect on the overall. but I'll leave that topic there. since it'll clearly draw people in to go in an endless circle of yes/no/maybeso]

Hope all have a good day(in which ever way that means for you)
If no other curious thing to think about or discuss happens today.