What do Elf Changelings' eyes look like?


Pathfinder Second Edition General Discussion


Elves eyes are described as

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Wide and rounded, featuring large and often vibrantly colored pupils that make up the entire visible portion of the eye. These pupils give them an alien look and allow them to see sharply even in very little light.

I haven't really seen the "vibrantly colored" pupils so much in official product art, it seems like it's just completely black 90% of the time.

The Changeling versatile heritage puts special emphasis on the fact that all changelings have heterochromia:

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Though a changeling generally resembles a member of their father's ancestry, their distinctive eyes—each a different color—set them apart. One of their eyes matches that of their father's lineage, while the other matches the color of their hag mother's, often in an unnatural shade such as violet or a vivid green.

How would this look with an Elf Changeling if they have little to no iris around their pupils? Is one eye still going to be mostly pupil but with a different color hue? For example if you took the Callow May lineage feature on an Elf character would one eye basically be a really dark green?


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Yeah, I'll just ignore the iris/pupil difference and just chalk it up to hag magic influence and give a changeling elf heterochromia. Granted, given how malleable elves' physical appearance are due to environmental factors, it might also not be noticeable at all (e.g. a woodland elf that may have green eyes already that's also a callow may changeling).


Clerical Terrors wrote:
I haven't really seen the "vibrantly colored" pupils so much in official product art, it seems like it's just completely black 90% of the time.

It isn't so rare. Noala have green eyes (Plaguestone), Mialari Docur (Age of Ashes) have purple eyes and there's also an art of Talamira (Age of Ashes) when she was alive where her eyes was brilliant purple.

I don't believe that the Changeling heritage changes the eyes "form" just makes them heterochrome and one of them brilliant with the color of type of the hag.


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The more intriguing question is "what does a cyclops changeling's eye look like?"


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There are a few official arts with solid green and solid blue eyes:
green
blue

I think there was also art in the 1e Inner Sea World Guide with something like purple or maybe red eyes, it's been a long time since I've looked at it, so I'm not entirely sure

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