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 Post Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 10:10 am    Post subject:
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Other players have suggested the back hair to be called a mane, and Morrigan has replied that it's more a mantle then a mane, but even that is not the best of descriptions.


My (limited?) understanding of what a 'mantle' is makes it seem like a fine term to use.

A mantle, generally, covers the shoulders and upper back, but does not extend too far down the back. Which is, as I understand it, what the Darju 'backhair' is. A thick bit of hair that covers the male Darju's shoulders and upper back.

Looking at the image I posted here, the first term that springs to mind is mantle.

Perhaps I'm just odd.

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 Post Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 10:15 am    Post subject:
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No, I think you're right. I think the artist took the description he was given, picked out what he liked, and the went with it. I think the picture was drawn with more wild hair, more pointy ears, and the female too small then was expected. Excellent artwork, just an extreme of the description he was given.
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 Post Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 11:09 am    Post subject:
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do they meow ? growl?or oink and snort?

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 Post Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 2:43 pm    Post subject:
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My suggestion as a partial remedy for this (nothing can totally cure stupidity except death):

Why not put a paragraph or two blurb in when they pick their race, and then they confirm wether or not they want to be that race. This gives time in game to lay down some OOC information like "Darju Are Not Cats" so that people don't start totally uniformed.

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 Post Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 2:59 pm    Post subject:
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i don't think the problem isnt' even that some people see them as the "cat like race" but because they see them as the cat like race they automatically also see them as "mew mew pretty kitty obnoxious otaku fawning here".
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 Post Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 3:00 pm    Post subject:
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i don't think the problem isnt' even that some people see them as the "cat like race" but because they see them as the cat like race they automatically also see them as "mew mew pretty kitty obnoxious otaku fawning here".


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 Post Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 3:07 pm    Post subject:
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Stripes, pointy ears, nightvision, and more hairy than the other races? I can't really say I blame some people for thinking they're kitties, especially if that's all they know about the race.


http://www.haelrahv.com/messageboard/viewtopic.php?p=18036#18036

Darju ears are supposed to be no more pointed than human ones, that is just a quirk of the way they were drawn. A couple posts up Morrigan also states they don't have pointy ears.
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 Post Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 4:08 pm    Post subject:
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To echo the sentiment of a few, I don't think a mention on the official web page's Darju race description will accomplish anything. If potential Darju aren't reading anything beyond buzzwords and stat training costs to discover that...

- The Darju male's hair is a mantle, or thick covering of coarse hair, much like your uncle's back except worse. (very first paragraph)
- The Darju woman's stripes are actually in the skin pigment. (again, very first paragraph)
- There is never any mention of anything remotely related to cats or otherwise feline origin.

... a "warning" is going to be lost on them.
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 Post Posted: Sun Apr 10, 2005 6:54 pm    Post subject:
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Gabriel wrote:
http://www.haelrahv.com/messageboard/viewtopic.php?p=18036#18036

Darju ears are supposed to be no more pointed than human ones, that is just a quirk of the way they were drawn. A couple posts up Morrigan also states they don't have pointy ears.


I know, but not everyone reads the forums. I was just saying, I can't really blame people for being mistaken if that's all they know.

I don't really think this is that big of a deal. If someone wants to play the race they chose stupidly, let them. Because...

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people will continue to think what they think no matter how much you try to educate them.


And as someone said somwhere, it would be useless to put a warning when it's chances of getting read are pretty slim. If you put something saying ... DARJU ARE NOT CATS, or DARJU ARE NOT FELINE-LIKE ... You have a chance of someone just skimming through the page to see the word cats or feline-like. Even if the site pictures were updated with better pictures, there would still be confusion.
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 Post Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2005 8:45 am    Post subject:
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 Post Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 4:05 pm    Post subject:
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Just out of curiousity, is the crazy darju chick that thinks she's a cat still there? I know there was one the played and then got tired of it and left but then came back months later and people have been getting on her case about the cat RPing. Is this the same one? If it is, I spoke to that thing and it told me that it was friends of Trevor and some other guy from DR and was ranting about kitties there. I think I told that thing that this aint DR and it needs to consider either stop RPing as a cat or pick another race to go with her story about being raised by cats and then went through a mirror where it was handed a weapon and told to learn the ways of the Haelravian. Or else it will have to keep on getting harrassed about the cat crap.
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 Post Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2007 9:33 pm    Post subject:
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at first i thought Darju ware cat like sorry i miss read or misstook that . but the reason i thought that was one i read mantle well Lions if you read have mantles or main depinding on the wrighter and they also mate that what i found in the main web sight well i dont see altarie in there descript mating or any auther race for that matter so you can ezly misstake that in my eyes and i been looking for more on darju to read so i can rp better a darjuplease help out if you wouldnt mind
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 Post Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:04 am    Post subject:
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hmm a bit likeb this guy is my idea of darju
http://www.five.tv/programmes/hiddenlives/wolfboy/
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 Post Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:04 am    Post subject:
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hmm a bit likeb this guy is my idea of darju
http://www.five.tv/programmes/hiddenlives/wolfboy/
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 Post Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:12 am    Post subject:
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hmm a bit likeb this guy is my idea of darju
http://www.five.tv/programmes/hiddenlives/wolfboy/
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I really hope Chuy isn't pronounced as Chewie
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