Thread: Highlander Eyebrows - 7.0 Graphics

Originally Posted by Risough

Thank you for providing some additional context, Malthir. I've seen both of the sources you mentioned and I actually linked the highlander lore thread earlier in this one. I'll provide the text of the blurb from the character creator for convenience here:

Character Creator:


I quoted the excerpt on eyebrows from the highlander lore thread in this post.

The blurbs in the character creator hold information to help you come up with your own background for your character and understand how others might see them in the world, but nothing in that last sentence is forced on your character. I interpret that "almost" qualifier is added to the blurb for that reason.

I also dug up the quote from Deep Canyon that Luluya mentioned:


You'll get this same text even if you play as a Highlander, so Highlander WoLs are not canonically Ala Mhigan.

Which is true, I was saying that you are canonically Ala Mhigan when it comes to cultures, clearly I didn't word my initial statement well. The culture of eyebrow shaving and tooth filing, scarification etc pre dates even that. So while it is true you could say your WoL is a rare exception to being Ala Mhigan, you are still from the same culture of Highlanders. The conversation I was replying to in my first comment, was to someone claiming your highlander could have come from a culture different culture of highlanders that didn't do this. However as stated in the lore, the Eorzean highlanders as a clan survived the 4th Umbral calamity by taking refuge in the mountains around Gyr Abania, it then goes on to talk about the culture of eyebrow shaving, tooth filing, tooth removal, scaring. The highlanders operated functionally as nomadic mercs for years, until later unifying as one people and creating the Country of Ala Mhigo.

So to reiterate, while you have a very rare chance of seeing a Eorzean Highlander that's not from Ala Mhigo, which means your WoL could have been born somewhere else, ALL highlanders come from a culture of shaving eyebrows and scaring etc. Not disagreeing that it should be an optional facial feature the same way the scars are, I was disagreeing with the notion that's there's different Highlander cultures across Eorzea, there isn't.