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[Mirrman70]

So I take it people only want slim humans with pointy ears when they say elves then? no truly unique characteristics?

[Wulfram]

So I take it people only want slim humans with pointy ears when they say elves then? no truly unique characteristics?

 

Well, that's what elves are.  In terms of physical appearance, anyway.

 

I could do without the pointy ears, personally

[Mirrman70]

if you are going for the original elves from norse mythology than yes they looked like humans, didn't even have pointy ears. but in modern fiction elves are always slim pointy eared humans, why can't we have more elves like that of the elder scrolls where they don't look human at all.

[The Qun & the Damned]

You mean her...?

 

 

Nah... I think the elf looks a lot better than her. The elf has that royalty look about her.

That's a scary charicature

[Russian Berserker]

Elves in skyrim have golden skin, and golden eye, they descend from the gods directly.

 

 

LOOK AT THIS MAGNIFICENT BASTARD! THOSE ARE THE EARS OF THE GODS!

[Spirit Keeper]

Personally I loved the design of the Elves in DA2. I'm not sure if the real issue people have is that they didn't look like a race of super models or something just as dumb. Whatever the reason may be, the render for DA:I elves looks pretty good. Perhaps a bit to much in the direction of human looking, but not as bad as the DAO elves.

 

They look pretty hot in DA2 anyway.

[Demonique]

Speaking broadly I'd quite like to see elves that didn't have the pointy ears.  Wouldn't fit DA of course, since "knife ear" and "flat ear" are part of the setting, .

 

I mean, there's nothing in LotR or the Hobbit which says elves have pointy ears.  It's vaguely suggested in some of Tolkien's other writings, but clearly not especially important.

Why can't elves be defined by their immortality and affinity to magic, rather than physical differences?

 

Arya didn't have ears in the film version of Eragon

[Demonique]

If you not important you will be ugly.

Reminds me of the pics of the background characters in the Omega DLC someone took using Flycam

 

http://imgur.com/a/K1q7z - I see a George W Bush lookalike in there

 

http://imgur.com/a/b4455#0

[In Exile]

Well, that's what elves are.  In terms of physical appearance, anyway.

 

I could do without the pointy ears, personally

 

Tolkien elves, I think, didn't have point ears. So that would be more in-tune with the trope. 

[In Exile]

So I take it people only want slim humans with pointy ears when they say elves then? no truly unique characteristics?

 

DA has an awesome race with unique characteristics - the qunari. Note how they fact they look nothing like stereotypical elves means they get a name that tells us they are nothing like stereotypical elves. 

[Uirebhiril]

So I take it people only want slim humans with pointy ears when they say elves then? no truly unique characteristics?

 

Elves have been portrayed as slender, sometimes short humans with pointed ears in a lot of fantasy work. The difference is in their characteristics being "exotic" by human standards, but that's fairly subjective. For some it's slanted almond shaped eyes or very angular features. For DA2 it looks like the shape of the nose and the size of the iris is different. I'd personally prefer if they could blend how the elves looked from DA:O with how they looked in DA2, but they might have done that and we have to wait and see what the character creator shows us.

[Tielis]

Why on earth would we think of "truly unique characteristics" when we're talking about a standard fantasy race with (by this time) standard features of looking like slim humans with pointy ears? If we think of "truly unique characteristics," we think of truly unique races that have never been seen in other media before. Like, say, Qunari.

 

When people think of fantasy dwarves, they think of short, stout, often bearded humans, but I don't see anyone complaining about the standard fantasy dwarf design for the Dragon Age series. If you're not going to complain about DA dwarves looking like short, stout humans, why complain about DA elves?

 

Thank you for this.  I'm really sick of all the "but the elves need to look drastically different from what we're used to in standard fantasy!"  I'm looking at you, BioWare.  But thankfully the art department seems to have come around for Inquisition.

[Nyeredzi]

He was the only elven child raised among human children in an orphanage of the blind. The care takers there took it easy on him by telling him and the other blind children that he was human.

 

Brother Genitivi: "What can you tell me about, er, the "books" you've written?"

 

Blind Elf: "Sera, my message is simple. Dwarves, Elves, and all kinds of Qunari stink! And I hate em! Especially the knife ears!"

 

Brother Genitivi: "You mentioned the elves, what problems do you have with them exactly?"

 

Blind Elf: "Where would I start? Well first of all, they are lazy good for nothing tricksters. Big eyed, big eared swindlers! And them ears....did I mention the ears?"

 

Brother Genitivi: "Yes, I believe you did Sera."

 

Blind Elf: "Matter of fact my friend Henric told me one of them knife ears came by his farm to take his sister out, but he stood up and said, "look here knife ear. That there is my girl! If Anyone has sex with my sister, it's gonna be me!"

 

Brother Genitivi: "You never left this property have you Sera."

 

Blind  Elf: "No Sera, not in many years."

 

Brother Genitivi: "What if I were to tell you that you are an elf?"

 

Blind Elf: "SERA!! Listen! I'm gonna make it clear to you! I am in no way shape or form, involved in any knife eardom!!! Understand?!"

 

Brother Genitivi: "Yes Sera, but, er"

 

Blind Elf: "But nothing!"

 

......

 

Blind Elf: "Now if you excuse me, I have important matters to attend to. Why don't you bring your codex, journal over there if you want to see some real truth!"

 

We walk to the market, and I talk with Nathaniel, a commoner from the locals.

 

Brother Genitivi: "Sera, aren't you afraid? Why not just tell him he is an elf?"

 

Nathaniel: "Listen Brother, if I tell him he's an elf he's probably kill himself. Ha! To him it will be one less knife ear around. His hatred and commitment is that deep."

 

Brother Genitivi: "I'm overwhelmed by the irony.."

 

We are interrupted by voices of angry human men. The Blind Elf is in trouble.

 

Humans: "What's that knife ear?!!"

 

Humans: "Go on, we don't like any of your kind around here"

 

Humans: "Yeah you better get out of here before something bad happen..."

 

Blind Elf: "That's right, That's right!"

 

Humans: "........."

 

Blind Elf: "Tell that knife ear! Beat, drag, em!!"

 

Humans: "What in Andraste?...."

 

Nathaniel: "Come on man, we gotta go"

 

Blind Elf: "Oh Nathaniel! There's a knife ear around here.. Go back to the Alienage where you belong!"

 

Brother Genitivi: "........."

 

With fortune, we managed to take the Blind Elf safely, and escape the situation.