So when I heard that paladins would get their own specific mount I got pretty excited as I play paladin as my main job. A white lion sounded pretty cool and I started farming duties to get one for myself. I never really looked at screenshots or anything of what it would look like. I had this image in my head of something quite beautiful looking (as I think lions in the real world are quite beautiful creatures) and I trusted SE would make it look nice just like most everything else in the world of Eorzea.

Well, the other day, I spotted someone showing off their new warlion mount and I was extremely disappointed to say the least.

Here's what I sort of imagined: (I believe this screenshot is from a game called Tera)



And here's what we got:




which reminded me of this:



and this:




WTH SE?