(12-04-2015, 04:20 PM)Valence Wrote: Skin tone is easy to conceal... But eye shape, yes, I can see where you are going... I was not totally sure of the differences they have between them.
I think that saying that Darwinian theories don't apply here might be a slippery slope in any case, since we all know they were probably not going to recreate a variation of the same mob 3D models everytime for every region... Imagine the weight in game files as well as the futility of the +++ hours of work required...
Similarly, I am not sure that Eorzea has reached the threshold where man races have started to blur and intermingle like in our modern contemporary society. Travel remains overall very costly and limited to a few, etc. On the other hand, there are so many anachronistic things with that same contemporary society (sunglasses, costa del sol, the Gold Saucer, real estate agents, and a lot of very modern societal and consumerist concepts overall and all that jazz) that well... It's hard to argue either way.
Which brought me a question of curiosity, are different races/species offspring infertile? Like, in the MSQ, is the Mongrel infertile?
Also, is it an abuse of language when they speak of all the races as races, and not species? When they speak about "Man" like the encompassing species?
Elezen grew up in the same environment...The Shroud...so it's not like they had much variation to begin with.
Hyur--both Midlander and Highlander started in Ala Mihgo and Midlanders can also be Doman but they don't look different than the ones in Eorzea.
Lalafell are both in Ul'dah...their lifestyles are different (don't know much about them...never had to).
Au Ra are both from Othard and their lifestyle and faith is mostly all that is different.
Miqo'te and Roe may be the only two that had super varying environments.
I don't think that the science really applies here...
As for infertility...that's a good question. We may never know haha.
In a world where there is more than one basic appearance for intelligent beings (The PC races and beastmen...DRAGONS...even clones because there are intelligent NPCs who WERE clones)...Darwin Evolution is a really difficult comparison because there are a large number of "species" per say that would have "human intelligence" and don't look humanoid.
