4 Lords appearance

[Crushnight]

Is there a reason why all the 4 lords are based on elezen? they all have the pointy ears of elezen and i'm curious why they based their form on elezen rather than Hyur given their location and their affilation with Tenzan?

Hardest to see but you can see his left ear:

[Seraph522]

Pretty sure Lalas have pointed ears as well, so Elezen don't exactly have a monopoly on them.

More seriously, pointed ears tend to be associated with faerie-like mystical entities in a lot of works, even if they aren't strictly related to Tolkien-archetype elves; the Four Lords are both deeply tied to nature and very mystical in style and design, so the pointed ears are likely to be used as a general aesthetic indicator of such rather than explicitly basing them off Elezen. Not to mention that pointed ears is the only common factor all of them share with Elezen - Byakko's stature is much more in line with Highlander Hyur than the lithe Elezen, while Genbu looks like the lovechild of Yoda and Ghido from FFV.

[Crushnight]

Pretty sure Lalas have pointed ears as well, so Elezen don't exactly have a monopoly on them.

More seriously, pointed ears tend to be associated with faerie-like mystical entities in a lot of works, even if they aren't strictly related to Tolkien-archetype elves; the Four Lords are both deeply tied to nature and very mystical in style and design, so the pointed ears are likely to be used as a general aesthetic indicator of such rather than explicitly basing them off Elezen. Not to mention that pointed ears is the only common factor all of them share with Elezen - Byakko's stature is much more in line with Highlander Hyur than the lithe Elezen, while Genbu looks like the lovechild of Yoda and Ghido from FFV.

Thank you for the response