Quote Originally Posted by Riepah View Post
I wonder how all the people who claim that "WINGS DON'T FIT THE LORE!" justify the fact that anyone with a few spare bucks can go and suddenly find the "unique" mount Sleipnir in their mail box.
the same reason there are multiple versions of all the avatars. those Sleipnirs aren't real, they are imitations made from Aether. the one we fight in Duty and in the Shroud aren't real either.

the lore question here is
1) are they physical appendages of the existing races? if yes, why didn't we have them before, why do the NPCs of these races not have them?
2) if they are not physical appendages what are they? just magic? if it's a magical spell that let characters fly, it doesn't necessarily have to look like wings. characters have flown in cutscenes before without wings.
3) if they are not physical appendages and it's not magic, what is it? in theory you can have a mount that looks like a pair of wings, some kind of bat/bird that instead of the character mounting it, latches on to a character's back and picks them up. the Bomb Palanquin didn't have to be a Palanquin at all, it could've been 6 bombs with hooks that just hooked onto the character's shoulders and dragged them around. that's purely an aesthetics issue.

so the question becomes, why do some people want wings?

do they want to add physical appendages to all the races? i don't see why they would.
do they want to fly without a mount? just so you can fly slower?

so the actual request really should be either
1) let us fly with magic without mounts but slower, but this would theoretically cost MP or TP. personally i'm cool with using MP to levitate to certain spots on the map without having to call and dismiss a mount.
2) gives us a mount that looks like a pair of wings attached to our backs but they are not actually wings of the existing races. i don't necessarily want this but i would like to see some flying mounts where the animation have us under them instead of being on top of them.