Originally Posted by Anung un Rama
Originally Posted by Lady Avyna
I understand that you may not like that the elves have human facial features but the thing is that elves originate from Norse Mythology and that is how they were described or drawn. J R R Tollken Lord of the Rings takes his world's mythology from the Norse and he too depicted elves a human looking with pointy ears. Almost every fantasy world that I have encountered, from Lord of the Rings, Dragon Age, Skyrim, Zelda, ect. all pretty much look the same. Also, not every elf is the same race. You have High Elves, Wood Elves, Dark Elves (Drow), Moon Elves, Sun Elves, ect. They each have different looks as far as skin color, the size of ears and hairstyles BUT their facial features are pretty much the same. Yes, some of the males may look androgynyous but the thing this that in fantasy lore, elves are meant to look beautiful regardless of gender. Elves are also rarely depicted as super buff and masculine, they are for most part shown as having a fit lean figure, even if they are a warrior. Although most Elves are usually rogues or mages.



I don't think that this other works of fantasy or the norse mythology matter in this subject since we already know how the elves from Forgotten Realms should look like, and it's certainly not how they're being portrayed in game.





If you look at the elves from Neverwinter Nights from BioWare and the mmorpg Neverwinter from Cryptic Studios which is also from the same universe as The Forgotten Realms but I believe in a different land, they also look the same. They don't look different. It's also produced by WOTC (Wizards of the Coast) who owns the D&D franchise, the elves all have "human" features and different subraces like I mentioned before. So, in Larian's defense, they are depicting the elves the correct way, per WOTC D&D. Also, keep in mind that this is only the 1st act of the game, we still don't know if other elves might look different but again all of this has to be approved by WOTC or they wouldn't have licensed Baldur's Gate to Larian.