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Closed Dark Skintone Options for Elves!
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https://wiki.mabinogiworld.com/view/User:Rydian/Unreleased_Updates#Skin_Colors
Heck, they could make it so Laighlinne’s exclusive skin that only Laighlinne partner have be available to all three races to use along with all the existing skintones.
Like lot other people have been wondering.. why haven’t this happened yet? Especially as someone already showed how simple it is to do.
I do have to agree also, with the idea that we are Milletians, we don't even have to follow lore so closely. I also cannot claim to be knowledgeable about in game content since my memory is awful but... I don't think its stated anywhere that elves CANNOT have dark skin. Even if it did, elves got black hair! So why not dark skin also?
I get the feeling "THE LORE" isn't the real reason he doesn't want black elves.
Apparently a face coupon is capable of making you look twice as dark lol
I agree with you, Dii.. I mean he even implied that having ‘dark skintones’ for the elves would affect the way he communicate with them so it seemed more like for a racist reason..
How about this: some clever Elven mage figures out a spell that makes elves skin darker and opens up a beauty shop; mages can do so much more than kill things or support parties of adventurers, after all. Besides a beauty shop that can accomplish desired outcomes that cosmetics can't is gonna make WAY more money than what you can rob from subterranean monsters.
Erinn is a place where, say, skinny women just stand around in Victoria's Secrets apparel in Bangor; A MINING TOWN for crying out loud! And it's just another day. So, aesthetics matter to people.
Magic is canon, right? Concern over superficial aesthetics is a normal part of Erinn life right? Besides light skinned people living in the desert, they're gonna at least be tanned.
Besides, Milletians don't follow the same rules as NPCs.
Reason why some are so against this topic (dark skin for elves) is because they are so into the usual basic af "elf lores" where most elves look like they are from the aryan race and spam archery. There was a guy who even said that elves in LotR lore aren't dark skinned, as if that had something to do with mabinogi's lore.
As for the kid who said it will impact his "roleplaying".. go play something else then.
I play a darkly tan, 10 year old, human, female. There is only one thing in that description that reflects me as a person. My character is a desert wanderer, which is why she is tan. I would rather her be an elf because I love the old bias against giants, but logically I think desert dwellers should be dark. Yet, that is my opinion.
Again, this shouldn't be a discussion because it should have already happend.
but uh, after memeing about it for about 5 years or so I kinda really do want tan elves. And I get that people have complained about this before and how it doesnt fit into the lore but I want to be an advocate for elf rights.(and soon, giant rights)
Make a tan option. please?
I dont want to have to wear a pumpkin crown 24/7 just so I can pretend i'm tan.
Dude, shush. Don't make such comments in here or this thread will get derailed in a speed of light.
Elves are not human. They are a separate species, and it is OK for them to be physiologically different. Imagine if a goblin with green or purple skin wanted to play Mabinogi as a human, then complained that humans did not have a green or purple skin option. As a human, you would quickly respond that humans simply don't come in green or purple.
As for why Elves don't tan in the desert, maybe they just don't need to produce more melanin to protect themselves from UV rays. It's possible they aren't bothered by UV rays at all. Maybe to them, the light of Palala is no more damaging than the gentlest moonlight. It's also possible the color of their skin comes from a substance that is not melanin. We simply don't know. All we know is that Elves are not human.
However, I am still happy that this thread got so much support and it continue to get the support from majority of players too!