The Fascinating World Of Ffxiv Au Ra Face Scales For Fam Elezen A Deep Dive

Transferring Au Ra Facial Structure to Elezen in FF14

The in-game character creator allows you to use a face template from one race on another, but it does not do a perfect job of it. When you copy an Au Ra face onto a female Elezen, the underlying bone structure gets shifted. The snout scale gets flattened, the brow ridge moves, and the ear set can end up looking slightly off if you do not adjust things after the fact. I have spent more time than I care to admit tweaking this for friends who wanted a specific look. What follows is what actually works in practice. Start by picking your Au Ra face in the template. Go into the Elezen customizer and load that face template from the "Other Races" section. From there you will immediately see the problems. The nose bridge is too flat. The cheekbones sit differently. The jawline is wider than it should be for an Elezen. You have to dial it back in manually. The most important sliders to adjust are face width, nose length, jawline projection, and brow ridge height. Au Ra faces tend to run long and narrow by default because of the snout. Elezen faces are broader at the cheek and have a more pronounced nasal bridge. Pull the face width slider up by about 3 to 5 points from the loaded template. Shorten the nose by roughly 2 to 4 points. Increase the brow ridge height to give it back some of that structure the template is missing. The jawline usually needs to be softened a bit — drop it 1 to 2 points unless you want a very sharp look.

I ran into a specific problem with one template where the eye set was completely misaligned no matter how much I adjusted it. The eyes kept sitting too low on the face, making the Elezen look exhausted even at max eye height. The workaround was to go back to the Au Ra version, open the eye position slider all the way down to zero, copy that exact number, then apply it to the Elezen eye height slider. It was not intuitive at first, but once I found that mapping, I started using it for every au ra to elezen transfer. Saves about twenty minutes per character. Skin tone transfer is straightforward — the palette is shared between races. Hairstyles, not so much. Some au ra hair slots do not have Elezen equivalents. If your template uses a race-specific hair, you will need to swap to a cross-compatible style and then adjust the pitch and size sliders until it sits right on the new head shape. That adjustment phase is where most people give up. It takes maybe ten minutes to get it comfortable. The real nuance that beginners miss is the face color and skintone transparency sliders. When you copy an au ra face, those values carry over with it. Au Ra skin tends to be slightly more opaque in the template defaults. Elezen skin reads as thinner and more translucent. If you leave the au ra skin transparency settings intact, the face will look waxy or plastic under certain lighting. Drop the skin transparency by about 2 points and bump the face color warmth slider up slightly. The character will look natural again without having to redo the whole face.

Another thing nobody really talks about: the ear placement slider interacts weirdly with copied faces. The template tries to position the ears based on au ra head geometry, which means the Elezen ears can end up too high or too far forward. If the ears look wrong, nudge the ear placement down 1 point and rotate them outward 2 points. That alone fixes most cases without touching anything else. There are community preset lists floating around on the Lodestone forums and the FF14 character design subreddit. Some people share their slider numbers for popular au ra faces converted to elezen. They are hit or miss — some are well-tuned, others are lazy copies that skip all the adjustments above. I keep my own reference sheet of sliders for the faces I use most often. It cuts the process down from a thirty-minute fumble to about five minutes if I have done the face before. If you want to go further, there are third-party tools like FFXIV Armory Crate add-ons that let you save and export full character data, including face templates. They are not officially supported and can be finicky to install. I use them sparingly. The manual method gives you more control and does not require any external downloads. Most people who ask about this end up going with the manual route anyway after they realize how simple the slider mapping actually is once you learn it.

The main downside to this whole approach is that the results will never look exactly like a native au ra face. The skull structure is different. The ear set, the jaw, the brow — none of it is identical. You will always have to make compromises. If you want a face that is unmistakably au ra, you are stuck with the au ra race. But if you want the general feel of it — the sharper features, the specific nose shape, the eyebrow set — on an Elezen body, it works fine after you put in the adjustments. It just requires the time to sit with the sliders and get it right.