Nophica Better Not Be a Tree

[Yegu]

This is how it should be bros

[Cleretic]

At this point I want Nophica to be a lalafel just to spite the OP, personally. Nobody else, just him. I don't think he's allowed to have the things he wants. (Also, not eveyrone here is a 'bro'.)

But then I thought about it and I'd unironically like to see what exactly a lalafel-envisioned god looks like. For the most part you can generally tell that the gods revered in the setting look like the people who worship them, either directly or indirectly (Ifrit doesn't look like a big amal'jaa, but you can see how the amal'jaa see themselves in him), or sometimes like something they'd reasonably be familiar with (Leviathan looks like naturally-occurring sea serpents like the Nepto Dragon, Ramuh is based on Rhalgr), with relatively few exceptions--basically just Lakshmi, but even she's supposed to have a snake tail by concept art. But the lalafel are off with the hrothgar in not really resembling the figures all the other core races would revere at all--and at least the hrothgar I assume would have some kindred with stuff like lions, so I can picture what a hrothgar's god would look like.

Are the lalafel with everyone else in being okay praising what are basically hyur in popular imagery, or would their depiction of a god look like something else? Would a lalafel-envisioned god even be big, since being small is basically their whole thing, and not something they're generally insecure about? And which god could even fill that role, given we've already got Nald'thal covered?

[kaynide]

Lalafel gods be like:


(Japanese Dogu statue if anyone is interested; we actually saw a boss based on this in Drowned City of Skalla)

[Iscah]

And which god could even fill that role, given we've already got Nald'thal covered?

I would suggest Oschon (via Nym and the Wanderer's Palace) if we didn't already have pictures of him (and a likely Hyur representative).

Of course, according to the first part of Myths, the gods may not have come from anything that mortals have imagined up at all, but are pre-existing beings that people have glimpsed over time and revered as deities. In that case there's no opportunity for any of them to have been based on Lalafell forms or beliefs as they are essentially a race unto themselves. (Albeit a strange race that includes, thus far, three human-like people and one that is more like a golem or living statue.)

But we're still waiting to see if that is really the truth of the matter, either.

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

This is how it should be bros

Compelling reasons to swap to Twin Adders.

*sweats*

[kaynide]

Compelling reasons to swap to Twin Adders.

*sweats*

..I just read that as “slap the two udders” …

I can think of at least two good reasons to join the twin..err..adders.

[Carin-Eri]

At this point I want Nophica to be a lalafel just to spite the OP, personally. Nobody else, just him. I don't think he's allowed to have the things he wants. (Also, not eveyrone here is a 'bro'.)

But then I thought about it and I'd unironically like to see what exactly a lalafel-envisioned god looks like. For the most part you can generally tell that the gods revered in the setting look like the people who worship them, either directly or indirectly (Ifrit doesn't look like a big amal'jaa, but you can see how the amal'jaa see themselves in him), or sometimes like something they'd reasonably be familiar with (Leviathan looks like naturally-occurring sea serpents like the Nepto Dragon, Ramuh is based on Rhalgr), with relatively few exceptions--basically just Lakshmi, but even she's supposed to have a snake tail by concept art. But the lalafel are off with the hrothgar in not really resembling the figures all the other core races would revere at all--and at least the hrothgar I assume would have some kindred with stuff like lions, so I can picture what a hrothgar's god would look like.

Are the lalafel with everyone else in being okay praising what are basically hyur in popular imagery, or would their depiction of a god look like something else? Would a lalafel-envisioned god even be big, since being small is basically their whole thing, and not something they're generally insecure about? And which god could even fill that role, given we've already got Nald'thal covered?

Same! That'd be hilarious, particularly since most seem to be expecting something akin to the image that was submitted a few posts ago!

[Alleo]

On reddit someone said that Yoshida mentioned in a interview that some of the gods may not look like we think they do. And according to those posters he gave Nophica as a example.
Not sure if that is true, but who knows maybe she is not even a woman in this.

[Necrotica]

On reddit someone said that Yoshida mentioned in a interview that some of the gods may not look like we think they do. And according to those posters he gave Nophica as a example.
Not sure if that is true, but who knows maybe she is not even a woman in this.

If it comes to that the modders will make it right.

[Carin-Eri]

All joking aside, I wouldn't be at all surprised if she were a tree.

It might be that they choose to take the Yggdrasil route with her and she follows a Dragonquest style design - certainly what we've seen so far does look a little like it was inspired by it:
Yggdrasil, Dragonquest XI:



And Yggdrasil in Dragonquest IX was godess (Celestria) who'd once had a humanoid form but took the form of a tree.