Too Few Padjal - Source?

[Rocl]

If Padjals are "ageless children", then surely Kann-E-Senna grows to adult for the purpose of being in that GC photoframe

Are you sure you're not thinking of Nophica? There was some controversy a while ago about a picture people thought was Kan-E-Senna with ... how do I say ... fully developed breasts, but it was actually the Goddess Nophica and not the Padjal, Kan-E-Senna.

[Catapult]

I think this is the "GC photo frame" being referred to:



And given her bust size is not visible, the point is moot.

[gornotck]

Maybe he confused her with the Admiral?

[Raestloz]

Are you sure you're not thinking of Nophica? There was some controversy a while ago about a picture people thought was Kan-E-Senna with ... how do I say ... fully developed breasts, but it was actually the Goddess Nophica and not the Padjal, Kan-E-Senna.

I don't even know what Nophica looks like. All that I know is Kann-E is far too tall for an "ageless child". I can tell that Raya-O is a "child", but Kann-E is pretty much almost 1.5x her height. She doesn't look like a child in any way.

Now, Nanamo, on the other hand...

[gornotck]

I don't even know what Nophica looks like. All that I know is Kann-E is far too tall for an "ageless child". I can tell that Raya-O is a "child", but Kann-E is pretty much almost 1.5x her height. She doesn't look like a child in any way.

Now, Nanamo, on the other hand...

You grow up a lot in your teen years. Kann-E-Senna is probably physically between 16 and 20, developmentally. So she'd easily be taller than Raya-O-Senna, even half again as tall.

Nanamo is, of course, physically mature.

[TinyRedLeaf]

I'd say that it has never occurred to me that Kann-E is physically a "child". She looks like a young woman to me, actually. After all, she stands out as the most physically mature of the known padjal. E-Sumi-Yan might arguably be wiser in some respects, but he clearly looks like a boy to me.

I'm not sure if that's because I'm East Asian and therefore look for different cues of physical maturity. I've seen comments, for example, of how female miqo'te look like teenage girls and, again, that had not previously occurred to me before.

[Enkidoh]

I don't even know what Nophica looks like. All that I know is Kann-E is far too tall for an "ageless child". I can tell that Raya-O is a "child", but Kann-E is pretty much almost 1.5x her height. She doesn't look like a child in any way.

Now, Nanamo, on the other hand...

Rocl was referring to this image (warning, large image on the way so spoilered):

I admit I was in the 'thought that image was a stylized depiction of Kan-E-Senna' camp too at first when I saw that image for the first time in 2011 - mostly because it didn't look anything like how Nophica was described as appearance wise ('jubilant farmer holding a steel scythe?' Riiiight...). But thinking about it, it does make sense (incidentally that very image is actually used in-game in ARR - it's plastered all over the walls near the gate into Hyrstmill in the North Shroud.).

[Rennah]

A bit off-topic, but in relation to that image, do we have visuals for any of the others of the Twelve? I'd never seen that before!

[TinyRedLeaf]

Eh... I don't see how that could possibly have been mistaken for Kan-E (where are the horns?). And neither do I think she represents Nophica. I remember seeing it as concept or promotional art, and I've always thought of the figure as the personification of Gridania, or at least of her people (like how France is sometimes symbolised as a woman). She wields the lance and the bow, the primary weapons of the Wailers and the Gods' Quivers respectively. And she stands before the standard of the Twin Adders. If nothing else, it looks very much like a recruitment poster to me. Much like the posters of Uncle Sam saying he wants you (to join the Army).

[gornotck]

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The leafy crown thing kind of looks like Kan-E-Senna's horns. It does have that recruitment poster feel. The weapons of the two halves of the Twin Adders, the standard of the Grand Company, the abundant bounty and natural setting.