Alternative to female Au Ra?

[PercibelTheren]

This. On paper Elezen being long of neck and limb doesn't sound too bad, but the art style of this game has an interesting way of handling proportions. This isn't to dunk on the artists or anything, but alot of characters will have really thick necks that contrast with more delicate faces (G'raha and Oschon come to mind). Elezen face that similar issue of having delicate/tiny heads on bodies that are just a bit too big to look right. On top of that they just appear really stiff.
I'd almost prefer it if they just used the Guado from FFX, though I imagine modeling arm gear on them would be a nightmare.

Eh, it's personal preference. I think their faces are really pretty and their weird proportions make them look slightly alien, which is not neccessarily a bad thing. But I have a lot of hot takes about races - like that I don't think I've ever seen a male Au Ra I didn't think was ugly with the only exception of grown-up Varhshahn who is using a custom face.

[Tsiron]

You can get decent results with face 3 (both of them, funnily enough), it's the one I use, but the remaining three do feel a bit too stylized for my liking. Really embodying bouba and kiki, what with the men all being pointy with stern expressions while the women have big round cheeks and vacant stares...

[sindriiisgaming]

The problem with adding Gria is the wings... They already massively struggle with tails, what kind of treatment do you think a race with wings would get?

the same treatment the fasion accessory gets. just a pair of floating wing vectors.

the real issue would be if a race had wings other players would be miffed as hell and i guarantee you everyone would be a gria. also people would be demanding they could fly.

if you look into aura lore, theyre not dragons, not even by half. they're reptilian. some even have blue tongues. reptiles also dont have wings.

[Tsiron]

Basically always thinking about this, and I know for a fact many of you are, too...

[StormChase]

It's definitely too late now but I do wish Auri women looked more like the men. With sci-fi/fantasy races it annoys me when the female design looks like they watered down the male design. They don't even get the blue tongues/black sclera that Auri men do.

If they ever introduce a new playable race for Meracydia it'll probably be the Guado.

[Tsiron]

When you say 'elegant' my first thought is female Elezen or Viera, definitely not Au Ra...

It's definitely too late now but I do wish Auri women looked more like the men. With sci-fi/fantasy races it annoys me when the female design looks like they watered down the male design. They don't even get the blue tongues/black sclera that Auri men do.

I know... Black (they're more grey than anything even on males, tbh, I wish they'd pick one or the other) sclerae I can sort of understand, they change a character's vibe quite substantially, but even blue mouths are too far? Really??

If they ever introduce a new playable race for Meracydia it'll probably be the Guado.

I struggle to think how they might differentiate them from Elezen outside of giving them wrinkly foreheads, this game doesn't really handle inhuman proportions (and Guado have giant hands) or stuff like claws or horns particularly well...

[Turnintino]

I think part of the problem is the devs maybe chickened out and made female Elezen way shorter than their proportions* would suggest, there was no reason for male Midlanders to come anywhere near them in height even at max...

*conversely, the reason you wouldn't be able to make current female Au Ra that much taller. The size of their head significantly limits how much their height can increase before it just looks wrong...

Yeah, proportions in this game are pretty whack in general. Except for Elezen, and obviously Lalafell (and Hrothgar, who actually have the reverse problem), the female model for each race tend to have noticeably proportionally larger heads than their male counterparts, probably to make them look more petite and therefore "cuter" in isolation (while the males' smaller heads make them look taller and more imposing in isolation). This would be okay if their height limitations always aligned with those proportions in mind, but that's pretty much never the case. I think Au Ra may be the only one, owed to their massive height differences.

As a catboy, for example, I can stand next to a catgirl of similar or lesser height, and my boy's head will be 2/3rds the size of the girl's lol. Things like proportions and height just demonstrably weren't designed with consideration for how either gender looks together, as a whole package, in most cases, let alone to every other race/gender combo.

One of the most glaring examples to me is probably the female Highlander model, which isn't allowed to be either exceptionally tall or short, and looks like an actual bobblehead next to male Highlanders -- who have pretty hefty craniums themselves lol. IRL, human heads have variation in sizes too, we're not all consistent... but not like that.

[FudoMyoo]

Elezen female master race . . .

[Merrigan]

Honestly height sliders should be independent of race. One of the biggest reasons I play a bun boy instead of a cat boy is I don't want to be so dang short. Even the bun boys are too short for my liking but it's good enough.

I don't even care if I see a 7 foot lala, I just want height sliders to be universal.

Er... no. I'm all for having a few sliders that would be more generous, but for pity's sake let's avoid the atrocities that systematically end up in games that become too... Generous, with permissive creation.

[LaylaTsarra]

Female aura are beautiful. Personally I love them Males on the other hand I'm not so fond of some of their animations the run is one for example I wish was better.