Thread: Highlander Eyebrows - 7.0 Graphics

Originally Posted by Darkstride

You stated that it's canon for the WoL to be Ala Mighan, which isn't the case. There's a difference between the general lore and history of Highlanders and applying it to a single character. I don't even think the shaved eyebrows is explained within the game itself. We just have a statement from a Q&A that was asked once upon a time to give a reason for it. Additionally, while it may be a cultural behavior, it's not a racial trait or genetic quality. It's a choice.

My initial statement was to someone claiming that the WoL could have come from a different culture of highlanders, which is not the case, character creator states information about the highlander clan. There's additional FF14 lore about them too about how they originally lived in the mountains near Gyr Abania, they unified as a people created Ala Migho. The culture of shaving eyebrows, scarification, andfiling teeth/removal of some teeth, existed before settling of Ala Migho and continued after. It is however, the same culture and the same people, and while the lore starts that almost all Highlanders are from Ala Migho, meaning there could be rare exceptions such as your character. All Eorzea highlander have the same culture, they all originate from the mountain people of Gyr Abania.

My point was that there is not an additional culture of highlanders in Eorzea. However, since the scars are optional and some characters haven't shaved their eyebrows, the implication is, it's not a mandatory part of the culture. Therefor should be optional in the same way Au'ra have a facial feature for turning on and off eyebrows, IMO.