Lalafell Villain Out of the Question?

[Yrusama]

So I was looking at my new Lalafell friend who wears a Darklight helm and a Lominson Officer's Overcoat and couldn't help but wonder if Garlemald has any Lalafell. I know the Empire is mostly Hyur by the looks of things, but would it be possible to implement a Lalafell Legatus in some patch? Or a Lalafell villain in general? I was thinking of something more along the lines of the Dark Knight in Crystal Chronicles; even though he wasn't a boss, he was still a fearsome little guy.

Nothing can parallel Shantotto in terms of an intimidating mage of small stature, but a ruthless Lalafell knight might make an rather iconic villain. Already I can imagine scenes in which this sort of character would make short work of foes before turning his weapon on the adventurer party. Perhaps more acrobatic swordsmanship a la Yoda, or ruthless military tactics would be scary.

I don't know, just an idea the devs might like to toy with. I suppose they could add a leader to the Lalafell Assassins in Thanalan. Until some of the Windurst scenes in Wings of the Goddess, I wasn't really able to take the Tarutaru too seriously. After that I came to respect them as equals to the taller races. The Lalafell need this in my opnion, especially if they want to be anything more than comic relief. The Black Mage quests helped, but not by much.

[Catapult]

Ohohohohohohohohohohoho!

[Obsy]

Considering both Shantotto as well as Robel-Akbel from XI, I'm not at all opposed to this!

[Gugnir]

All lalafell are secretly plotting against you. We will have our day. Have to agree, would like to see a Garlean lala general.

[Renen]

[Duelle]

Considering both Shantotto as well as Robel-Akbel from XI, I'm not at all opposed to this!

Eh, Shantotto was overinflated by the fandom, and Robel-Akbel felt kinda forced. It just felt like they had to make him seem ruthless in order to get people to take him seriously. Sadly, it's the same reason why we never had a tarutaru serpent general in TAU.

The two sons of whatshisname that owns the miner's guild in Uldah feel a bit more natural. They should probably go somewhere along those lines, IMO.

[Obsy]

Eh, Shantotto was overinflated by the fandom, and Robel-Akbel felt kinda forced. It just felt like they had to make him seem ruthless in order to get people to take him seriously. Sadly, it's the same reason why we never had a tarutaru serpent general in TAU.

The two sons of whatshisname that owns the miner's guild in Uldah feel a bit more natural. They should probably go somewhere along those lines, IMO.

So in other words, you agree with OP's idea.

[Virtuso]

I was just thinking of this idea. Would love to see a villainous Lalafell but in heavy metal armor and fighting as a melee class. We can stab goodie two shoes with the best of them just fine! Enough with just making us out to be just mages with the npcs! I want to see a Lalafell in Judge armor shoving his spear down a Roegadyn's throat!

[Fated]

So the fans praised Shantotto and you didn't thus she was overinflated? Nice one.

[Majidah]

considering everyone from the empire seems to be hyur I'm suspecting they are a bit racist