(07-09-2013, 12:03 AM)Aysun Wrote:I can also vibe with this idea. It does make things easier in terms of creating a character. Also, I've always been of the opinion that the less you have to describe about your character's appearance in addition to what people can physically see, the less complicated things get for everyone.(07-08-2013, 09:44 PM)Spiritual Machine Wrote: Not everyone in the thread seemed aware of it. Honestly it seemed like there were a few conversations going on, and mixed race wasn't even the original topic. I could be mistaken, though.
It doesn't seem necessary to say, in the case of what a half-breed would simply look like, "don't do it because we don't know." In the case of appearances, we'll rarely perfectly recreate our character concepts in-game, as the customization options will always be more limited than we'd like them to be. The fact that the concept is possible seems good enough to at least attempt to recreate it.
It might not be realistic to come to only one conclusion, in my opinion. There are a lot of ways the characteristics of two parents could come together. I'm not discouraging the discussion at all, though! I'm saying that there are probably a lot of ways to make a "Hyurqo'te" that could be just as different from each other as the parent races are--a whole spectrum of mutts with pointy Hyur ears and stunted tails and what have you!
At least until SE spells it out for us, I suppose. But imagined physical characteristics are easy to retcon anyway.
Yea, those variations of mutts just don't exist in the NPCs that we see, so I am happy to accept it as support for the theory of one race being expressed at a time. Otherwise stuff'd get soooo messyyy..The visual purity of the races are maintained, even though SE says cross-breeding is possible and happens, albeit rarely.
I always had a hard time remembering the little details that were written in Flag-RSP but not conveyed on characters in World of Warcraft, like those people playing heavily-tattooed/pierced/modified elves and such.
(07-08-2013, 09:49 PM)Isis Wrote: And here I was just exploring mixed clan breeding lol. More importantly with the Miqo'te race who are physically very similar in some aspects It seems we are onto a whole other thing here entirely.You know, I think this'd be pretty easy actually. They're not only really similar, but they have skin color spectrums that overlap. I've made some pretty Seeker-like Keepers, and vice-versa to an extent.
Qualities like tail length, heterochromia, and face paint can also subtly suggest certain clan backgrounds.
