Thread: Highlander Eyebrows - 7.0 Graphics

Originally Posted by Equitable_Remedy

There is another option.

I'm sure this response is only a joke or a troll, but that's only an option if you don't care about being a Highlander. Try pitching that solution to the Miquo'te weeping over their shortened fangs and see the uproar.

Originally Posted by Malthir

While I would agree with you it looks dumb, it's cannon that if you're a highlander WoL you're Ala Mhigan, which means you shave your eyebrows culturally.

Can you provide a citation for the claim that highlander WoLs are Ala Mhigan and follow their cultural practices?

Originally Posted by RethDaron

I wonder how much work it would be to add a few more eyebrow 'paint' options for Highlanders.

Thanks, I prefer real eyebrows, with various shapes and hair textures. I know many use the face paint option, but for me, these drawn eyebrows always look equally bad as no eyebrows at all. Besides, my face paint slot is always taken by eyeshadows, cause they are a must if you want to do a good face in the current character creator.

So yeah, hope we will be seen and heard by SE. If not in 7.0, then in subsequent patches.

sometimes i wonder why the male highlanders on the first also shave their eyebrows

Originally Posted by grinkdaboy

sometimes i wonder why the male highlanders on the first also shave their eyebrows

Because Highlanders aren't important or popular enough to make changes to the models.

Originally Posted by Darkstride

Because Highlanders aren't important or popular enough to make changes to the models.

And then they tease you with "Kung Fu Grandpa"

(Ran'jit)

and his impressive eyebrows.
I was hoping they'd at least make the face paint "eyebrows" look like actual eyebrows, but of course they didn't.

Originally Posted by ronibosch

And then they tease you with "Kung Fu Grandpa"

(Ran'jit)

and his impressive eyebrows.
I was hoping they'd at least make the face paint "eyebrows" look like actual eyebrows, but of course they didn't.

Instead, it looks like clown makeup in the benchmark lol.

Originally Posted by Darkstride

Instead, it looks like clown makeup in the benchmark lol.

Right? I mean, they look great on my female Hrothgar in the benchmark, but that's only because they look like markings on her fur rather than actual eyebrows.

Originally Posted by RethDaron

I wonder how much work it would be to add a few more eyebrow 'paint' options for Highlanders.

it would be "easier" since they have added few face paints in the past and it would be a ok compromise but then you would have to choose eye brows over face paint which would annoy some people AND it would look weird in the races that already have eyebrow options so you'd have double brows on a lalafell as an example.

So they probably would be hesitant in doing so pretty much like they have for anything character creator related Hrothgar just got "lucky" since they had to rework the entire section to add hair and features.

Originally Posted by Malthir

While I would agree with you it looks dumb, it's cannon that if you're a highlander WoL you're Ala Mhigan, which means you shave your eyebrows culturally.

They state the reverse actually as early as the ARR Miner quests where Deep Canyon acknowledges that you are not Ala Mhigan and probably from farther abroad. I don't believe the WoL's clan is ever actually acknowledged at any point. If the game even did so, Hellsguard characters wouldn't have their name split into either just mentioning forename/surname when referred to.

Also Ivon Coeurlfist, who is like the epitome of Highlander Ala Mhigans, doesn't just have eyebrows; he has the bushiest brows, practically beards above his eyes.

Anyway more on topic it would be a great customization option to have actual eyebrows for highlanders because as shown in this thread and elsewhere, they've implemented NPCs that use the normal highlander model but with full eyebrows added to the model.