Quote Originally Posted by DrForester View Post
There was not a single Hrothgal in the benchmark trailer that wasn't wearing the regular race armor. There is one Hrothgal walking up stairs in the background at 3:23 in the trailer that may have one of the standard ponytail hairstyles, but it may just be a race specific one, It's hard to tell.

As for the character creator, I would like to think they would have said if it WASN'T going to be there. It's been there before, but they did mention it when the Endwalker benchmark was revealed about the male Viera creator being there.
Not quite true. There are two Axe wielding Hrothgals that have a red poncho body piece instead of the normal racial gear but yeah most are wearing the racial gear. They can be seen when the camera pans around the WoL talking to the FFXI troll while Wuk and Krile come walking up (don't remember what they are called in XIV so going to just call them trolls since that is what I know the model from in XI :P ).

And yes every time there has been a new race the Benchmark allows for you to create that race, Heavensward Benchmark had the Au Ra, Shadowbringers had the Female Viera and Male Hrothgar, and finally Endawker Benchmark had Male Viera. I think that if you couldn't create a Hrothgal that they would of said so during the live letter. As for why they probably said something about Male Viera creation for the Endwalker Benchmark, they probably knew that Shadowbringers had the biggest influx of players (almost 150% the size of the 2.0 player base) so probably addressing that for the influx.

I wonder what the average amount of time creating everyone is going to spend creating their Hrothgal is going to be ^^' I suspect for me probably a good hour or two... I only know one thing for sure and that is the heterochromia that my character no mater what race always has ^^' The only thing that I hope I can find is the nose scar (The one that goes across or near the bridge of the nose) that I typically use if I can find it for my character ^^' 15 hours is still quite a while to wait T.T but at least it better than waiting another month or so like quite a few people were thinking.