Dark Elves in SOGA

[Raven]

<div>Okay the SOGA models are obviously causing a lot of heated dicussion - some love them, some hate them.</div><div>What I want to know is:</div><div>a) Why Dark Elf ears are so damned HUGE?</div><div>I don't just mean the way all Elf ears are over-sized now. But High Elf ears can be made a lot smaller so why not the Dark Elves?</div><div>b) Why have all their skin tones been lightened also?</div><div>I can be a grey, lilac or baby blue Dark Elf - none of which are particularly DARK!</div><div> </div><div>I can't help but feel this is just an attempt to copy the night elves of WoW which are sadly far from the Dark Elves we know in EQ2.</div>

[AbsentmindedMage]

<div></div><span><span><blockquote><hr>Auvenye wrote: <div>a) Why Dark Elf ears are so damned HUGE?</div><hr></blockquote>Dark elves unlike their cousins lived under ground in caverns and stuff beneath Nek Forest.  Because they lived in dark environments their eyes had to develop much greater sensitivity to light.  In addition, their hearing also had to be better than their terrestrial counterparts to make up for the lower ability to discern things from sight alone.  Those with larger ears could hear things better and hence were most likely to survive and pass their large ear genes to the next generation.   Hence,                                                            <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/icarus137/sound.jpg"> <span><blockquote><hr>Auvenye wrote: <div>b) Why have all their skin tones been lightened also?</div><hr></blockquote>The have a pale complexion from living underground where having a lot of pigment was not necessary.  So, they have little pigment in skin.  Perhaps, those with darker pigments were difficult to see by the other dark elves and hence were unable to find partners as easily.  So, their genes were not passed on to the next generation.  You can still make dark elves with darker skin tone.                                   <img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v312/icarus137/sound2.jpg"></span></span></span><div></div><p>Message Edited by AbsentmindedMage on <span class=date_text>11-03-2005</span> <span class=time_text>01:38 PM</span>

[Tealdea]

Customization? Not for dark elves... mwuhahaaa <div></div>

[Magik01]

I personally can't stand looking like I've been eating powdered donuts <img src="/smilies/9d71f0541cff0a302a0309c5079e8dee.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  What's up with those white lips? o_O