Guild Wars 2

Charr eyes do actually show up in the dark, if you go to the wvw jumping puzzle dark bit you’ll see that. They don’t really glow though.

Like Grizor.6543 said, charr eyes do show up in the dark a bit more than the non-sylvari races, but they don’t actually glow. Sylvari eyes glow because of bioluminescence whereas cat eyes don’t glow at all — they reflect strong light back out of them.

See, the back of a cat’s eye is extremely reflective. You don’t notice this during the day since the pupil is a slit, but at night the pupil is almost as big as the iris because it needs to take in as much light as possible. Because of the mirror-like surface in the back of a cat’s eye, even minute amounts of lights are amplified, letting them see in extremely low light where we couldn’t see a thing.

The glow of cat eyes (among other species) is simply that mirrored surface reflecting a strong source of light back out. The red eye phenomenon in human photography is actually the same principle, we just lack the mirrored surface to actually reflect the light back in the intensity it entered with and so it comes out red from all the blood vessels in our eye. Without a direct light source, such glowing eyes don’t happen.

I also don’t think charr have the degree of night vision felines have. Their eyesight during the day is quite sharp but in low light and night it’s either the same as a human’s or only slightly better if the two novels were any indication. As such, their eyes may not even be capable of “glowing” to the degree a cat’s does.

As for more horn variety, I agree. It’s an iconic part of the charr’s appearance so it’s a bit of a shame that there’s not a wide amount of variety for them. Hopefully in time more will be added.

I give my charr rather bright eye colors for this reason, so that they show up more intensely in low light situations.

What I want for horns is more “modified” horns. The males only have a couple. 1 set that has some metal bands decorating them. The second set the horns are actually cropped and have cinching bands of metal at their ends I guess to keep them from growing back.

Females have this 1 cool set of horns where the horn is in 2 pieces and joined by a gear looking piece of metal. I want some more stuff like that for the males.

i can see it now glowing Red eyes lol that may scare someone.