What would mixed race characters look like?

[MikkoAkure]

Of the three confirmed mixed race characters we've seen (Hilda, Arvenvald, and Severa), two of them seem to take most of the mother's appearance with a few traits of the father.

All of them are Hyur crossed with “race that’s Hyur but with one extra thing that isn’t Hyur” so I’m not sure what else there is to expect. The devs weren’t going to make a whole separate body model. The “takes after the mother” thing was invented by RPers and is headcanon that was disproven by Severa, who also disproved Arenvald’s idea about half-Garleans not getting the third eye, though neither he nor Ramza and Alma who are also half-Garlean got the third eye.

This, I believe, is a flaw of FFXIV; the many inhabitants of the world move around everywhere, congregating in guilds, mercantiles, and towns.

People of different races would naturally hook up with each other all the time, whether they were in love or just hot for huge sweaty strong furry dommy-mommies.

The reasoning is that through a lot of history, the different races fought wars against each other.

Elezen and Hyur probably had it the most brutal because they kept pushing the Elezen out of their own lands and were only forced to be friends after hiding together in the caves due to shared fear of the Elementals.

There are Hyur in Ishgard as well, but they seem to mostly be a lower caste and the few Hyur nobles seem to be those descended from dragon slayers, which brought their families into the nobility.

The whole stigma against dating outside your race seems to be either ignored or softened by the devs lately though because there’s more of it happening, especially with holiday NPCs both a part of the events and couples in the background with passive dialogue when you walk passed them.