Arator is a half-human, half-elf, and yet just looks exactly like a full blood elf!
You had Blood/Void Elf customization since mid-BFA that let them have shorter ears and less-shiny eyes, and didnt update his model.
But now you have updated his model! Great! But you gave him full-elf ears! This is weird!
Still time to fix it, show us half-elf years like you did with Kalecgos!
Plz fix ty ty
He hasn’t really been important to the story. If he becomes important to the story in Midnight, he will probably get a newer model.
I mean we’ve seen what his new model will mostly look like, and he looks even more like a regular blood elf.
This is a good point, and I giggled to see your post because I know exactly why this never occurred to me before.
I play modded Skyrim - probably more than I play WoW, if we take an “hours per year spent ingame” approach.
And, in Skyrim, the phylogeny - which is actually backed in canon lore - states that in inter-species fertility, the child will take on the characteristics of the mother.
And so…Arator looking like an elf just didn’t register. My brain was like, “Of course he looks like an elf because his mother is an elf.” But you’re right! That rule doesn’t exist in WoW lore, and he should look more like a halfsies than he does.
Garona’s half draenei. There’s a small cast of half-draenei characters, actually. One of them even turned up at the heritage quest.
They all just look like orcs.
You can be of mixed race and still favour certain traits. He has the gene for long ears.
Also, these aren’t the full length ears. They’re the middle length.
Elf ears continuely grow and need trimming from time to time.
He got the ugly hair genes from his human parent.
Usually in fiction, when you have a character who is the son or daughter of two different races, you choose the racial features of one and mix the visual features of both to avoid unnecessary complications!
And please don’t, remember Gamora, Half Orc- Half Draenei, do you want a female orc with tendrils?
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Now it’s official… this is World of Lame Haircuts.
Such a shame. It would be cool to see more mixed appearances (though I’m reminded of a cursed set of pictures that basically put one race’s textures over another race’s skeleton… ugh)
Fan artists have you covered.
I will never understand why they gave him that haircut and that beard…maybe that’s a bad angle, but he looks like he works at a vape shop. o_O
Lol! I don’t mind it that much. Well, the beard I do. But a mohawk ponytail to make room for his lame dragon head tattoos. Hell yeah.
Turalyion might want a DNA test
I don’t even really like half-breeds between entirely alien species existing tbh.
You can excuse it with magic sometimes, sure, but not when it’s just random people physically making a baby. There’s no magic involved in that.
Halves between elven subspecies, elves and trolls(big stretch, but better than elfXhuman), orcs and ogres, that kind of thing all makes sense. But humans and elves, orcs and draenei, all this is just beyond the scope of suspension of disbelief.
I always thought that he would need hooves or tail too…
He might still have a little tail nub.
I thought it was neat. Sometimes even in mixed families you have a kid that appears much closer to one parent then the other. This is why you sometimes see wildly different siblings who still share the same parents.
Arator could genetically just favor his elf side more.
Aerator is actually half-elf. Most of the “half-elves” we’ve seen like the Arathi are humans with very, very distant elf ancestry.
See, that looks badass! I’m fine with Garona presenting as mostly orc, but give her just an ever so slightly blue tint to her green skin and only the faintest hint of draenei horns, and she would really pop