why hrothgar and not lupin?

[Ramesses]

genuinely curious as to their thought processes behind this choice.

much easier asset flip, more visually interesting, better body proportions

The Lupin had their lore very well entrenched within the Doman region and might have proved difficult work for the Devs in making customization options.

Plus, there was also the fiasco with their "wolf" gear as a reward during the 2017 All Saints Wake event... lets just say it wasn't well received... and this possibly gave the Dev team an additional indicator that the Lupin may not be the route to go for a new race.

[Wynn_Storm]

The lupin models look so weird.

To me it just looks like a hyur body with a weird wolf head slapped on top of it.

[Berethos]

much easier asset flip

Which should not be a factor when adding a race.

Also, pretty much all Lupin have the same face, so that "easier asset flip" doesn't really apply. They'd have to make additional face shapes, then nose/ear/eye/mouth/etc differences like they do with the current races, plus figure out how to handle hair or a hair equivalent, then make even bigger changes for any of the head gear to work...

Would end up being as much, if not more work.

[Alucard135]

The lupin models look so weird.

To me it just looks like a hyur body with a weird wolf head slapped on top of it.

They do look like one. Even in their animation. I'd say they'd probably just pass them off as glamour (which means no head gear visible). But I do wonder how they'll do the tail if they tried that.

[MStowastiqVahlshdeh]

genuinely curious as to their thought processes behind this choice.

much easier asset flip, more visually interesting, better body proportions

I am kind of surprised that they did not add Lupin, since the textures are already in the game. If they did add them, however, I would prefer the height of the npc Hakuro in the Doman Enclave.

[Tanama]

As they declared they went with Hrothgars to fill a race slot they felt were missing. They presented feline heads mostly but in an interview Yoshi said they will have other heads than felines and cited wolves which might be akin to Lupins, and there might be more options.

I keep seeing this mentioned. Was that specific mention of wolf faces a sort of mistranslation or something taken out of context?

[Cerbolt]

I would have very much prefered Lupin.

[Dragon_punch]

The lupin models look so weird.

To me it just looks like a hyur body with a weird wolf head slapped on top of it.

It looks like they took the Griffon head model and slapped fur and ears on it.

[Vahlnir]

the solution they had in place in wow for this issue was that it looked like they took a can opener to the helmets

Funny but sadly true. lol

[AvenoMatt]

Lupin have weird proportions. They should look more like this.