Female Hrothgar as a playable race. Show your support!

[ejunniim]

I have looked very hard, but still cannot find any lady with fur marks, what I did find however, is that the one from the artwork that holds a gunblade has a distinctively different fur placement compared to Wuk Lamat and the trailer ladies. Her's being a few stripes on the shoulder with no connection in between them, while Wuk's are still striped, but connected.
I have seen the earrings, there is another earring on the ears of the trailer ladies if you look closely, but it seems like that one was silver (maybe is clan dependent?)
As for the tattoo, it is I think almost identical to that of the male face 4 (Lost). *Headcannon* It could be an old warrior tattoo bestowed upon the warriors of Bozja. *Headcannon over*
Or just a cool face exclusive? Regardless, looks good!

Yeeeesh, this is the one! Thanks for posting this! For some reason, the links to images I left before sooner or later stop working and the image disappears, ah... ._.
And yes, exactly, have noticed too that the fluff works differently on them, so now I'm wondering if the patterns itselves will be different from what men already have!
But I'm not sure about the silver earring from the trailer. Noticed it as well, but it resembles a recolor of the earring that can be found in Alzadaal's Legacy... Which confused me, because perhaps they simply forgot to remove/hide it. However, really enjoy the idea of giving silver jewelry to the Helions and gold jewelry to the Lost, it creates an interesting contrast and personality!

[ejunniim]

I find it cute and encouraging that a lot of Japanese players seem to be placing their release announcement guesses on the upcoming 14-hour video.

[Pip_Chick]

I find it cute and encouraging that a lot of Japanese players seem to be placing their release announcement guesses on the upcoming 14-hour video.

I place my bet for the release somewhere in June. I think it makes the most sense. And that would place the Benchmark in April (2 months before the release). I also think they wouldn't release the Benchmark before the FF16 collab, It might be 1 or 2 weeks later so as to not take the attention away from the event. Since the DawnTrail benchmark would be (in my experience) more hype and keep people occupied for longer, that is how it was during SHB and EW, with people doing last-minute changes to the chars (Viera and Hrothgar for SHB and Male Viera for EW) to add to that now ALL characters would be slightly changed due to the Visual update and people would want to make sure they remake all of their characters to look as they were, as well as us getting the chance to play with the Female Hrothgar customisation ( I will not bother with the customisations of my other alts, just play with the Female Hrothgar one)

[Iscah]

They obviously hoped the new Gunnhildr, having completed her task, would die quietly and unnoticed, unable to withstand the power of Save the Queen. Or, perhaps, become an eikon whom they would defeat and become heroes (? not sure about this. Their motives anyway seem very vague...).

They didn't put the alternate queen on the throne "hoping" to kill her; it was simply a fact that whoever used the holy blade would be possessed by the primal within and... well, I can't remember exactly what they said, but I assume it was a matter-of-fact thing that they would have to kill her afterwards, which is why they passed off the task to a nobody instead of the actual queen.

So they crowned Nevembya queen fully expecting that she'd promptly sacrifice herself and wouldn't actually do any long-term ruling, but she survived the summoning unscathed, so to the schemers she was now in a position they had never planned on her getting to. Thus the plan turned to "we'll just murder her anyway even though it isn't necessary after all".

[ejunniim]

They didn't put the alternate queen on the throne "hoping" to kill her; it was simply a fact that whoever used the holy blade would be possessed by the primal within and... well, I can't remember exactly what they said, but I assume it was a matter-of-fact thing that they would have to kill her afterwards, which is why they passed off the task to a nobody instead of the actual queen.

So they crowned Nevembya queen fully expecting that she'd promptly sacrifice herself and wouldn't actually do any long-term ruling, but she survived the summoning unscathed, so to the schemers she was now in a position they had never planned on her getting to. Thus the plan turned to "we'll just murder her anyway even though it isn't necessary after all".

Makes me wonder what became of the queen before Nevembya. D: If I remember correctly, Misija called her a "coward" who refused to do her duty... But I still didn’t understand what happened after. Was this woman exiled or executed? In the end, the split in society was critical and helped the Garlean invasion...

[Pip_Chick]

A new interview with Yoshi P was published in the Play mag. (these are not mine, but from Twitter @strbrryseason). Here are the screenshots, it takes about a few things like the relic weapons and the vision the devs have for as far as 9.0.
But the things of interest would be: more information on Female Hrothgar and the hat situation. + a nice confirmation that they are working on adapting the hats for Hrothgar (and Viera)

[AnAverageAspie]

SNIP

*reads that the runner-up female design we almost got was “slim/cuter”

Okay, now I’m really curious for the concept arts in upcoming books if the devs, besides YoshiP, were leaning on a more petite femmy look. Unless they scrapped a more muscular kittybitgamer physique for them, then this might be a sort of an reverse from the aesthetic divide between female au-ras and its scrapped concept art. While I would always be down for them being more wide and muscular, around the confines of what the males are. Again, Noi from Dorohedoro fits close to that opnionated mold and is still female coded/“cute” in the eyes of more conservative critics lol. This is still a decent effort that has room for tiny but doable tweeks till release. And nice that they don’t get special hat treatments, which has me hoping we’ll still have similar CC options to the males. Now, bets on a ballsy CC move would be to have no chest slider, but swap it for a back one haha.

[Allegor]

I'm calling it now, they were 100% Miqo'te but furry until they saw the bunch of "cat mommy" art

[GTK0HLK]

I'm calling it now, they were 100% Miqo'te but furry until they saw the bunch of "cat mommy" art

If so, then it's a good thing so many artists made concepts of their desires.

In either case, we got a path that seems to hit the majority of check boxes most wanted.
[Adjusted +/- a few things we all individually find subjective good or bad.]

Makes you wonder where some had gone. You'd think they'd gone more so.

Though if that one art that was put in the same twit with the Male Viera was to go by.
[That probably wouldn't been a hard/far guess. Since what we got is just much more toned/stronger than that art.]

edit: (Gone more so, as in made much more art before disappearing/hiding/removing. since it wasn't only a few who decided to take a step back.)

[Pip_Chick]

*reads that the runner-up female design we almost got was “slim/cuter”

Okay, now I’m really curious for the concept arts in upcoming books if the devs, besides YoshiP, were leaning on a more petite femmy look. Unless they scrapped a more muscular kittybitgamer physique for them, then this might be a sort of an reverse from the aesthetic divide between female au-ras and its scrapped concept art. While I would always be down for them being more wide and muscular, around the confines of what the males are. Again, Noi from Dorohedoro fits close to that opnionated mold and is still female coded/“cute” in the eyes of more conservative critics lol. This is still a decent effort that has room for tiny but doable tweeks till release. And nice that they don’t get special hat treatments, which has me hoping we’ll still have similar CC options to the males. Now, bets on a ballsy CC move would be to have no chest slider, but swap it for a back one haha.

Did they show a concept for male Hrothgar in any of the books, I know of the panel ones that were rejected for being too Miquo'te or costume-like, but don't know of any book that might have alternate designs.
The chest slider must stay, it is imprinted in the CC, and the chest slider should be available to everyone IMO, both males and females. It gives the players the chance to crank it up to max, or have it all the way down. More choice is better than no choice.

As for the "more cute design" I have a vague idea of what that means:


So, not really Lalafell/Miquo'te sized, but definitely pulling the Au'ra card.

As for Hats, I am also happy, it is clear that they designed them with hat compatibility in mind, I wouldn't be surprised if they actually can wear all of them, but don't want to release it like that for fairness sake. I have no sticks in this raffle, all headwear I use can be used by Hrothgar already (minus the gender locked stuff, but that can be used by female Viera so it's the same thing). I am very glad that they addressed it and will make strives to give people all the hats so we can finally scrap the "Work in Progress" races.

Also, I absolutely ADORE Noi, she is precious!!!! ( <- Absolutely bias)
But I can't say I would like an alternate design more than what we already got. When I saw female Hrothgar it brought me to tears, I was so happy. They are perfect! I rewatch their trailer on the daily with my morning coffee, I cannot wait to be one in DT. So whether those runner-ups will ever make an appearance or not, I am not really that bothered.