#what im also saying is that asura are literally ALIEN MONSTERS and i will TREAT THEM AS SUCH idc what anet says about them having --

[system-architect]

hear me out here also: humans are literally ALIENS in tyria transplanted there by the gods, presumably originating from some sort of unknown Other realm, which means that humans are not part of tyria’s evolutionary history (at the very least not until only ~2116 years ago in tyria)

the native sentient races including asura, charr, and norn would have had their own entirely unique evolutionary trees/histories and bizarre extinct relatives like tyrian equivalents of neanderthals etc etc ((not incl sylvari as they came into existence in a really Weird way and didn’t evolve their humanoid shapes but rather use a form of mimicry to attain them; they don’t have typical genetics/evolution altho they would have weird dragon minion based biology))

which means quite literally anything could have happened across those evolutionary lines and their biology could differ from humans in all sorts of WILD ways and they could have all sorts of unique vestigial traits... even norn who are extremely similar to humans in appearance are completely evolutionarily, genetically, internally, etc different from humans and would have their own really wild history as to how they reached a humanoid appearance plus adaptations that humans don’t have at all

what im saying is honestly tyrian is literally an alien planet, we’re shooting darts at xenobiology here, go fucking ham with your weird headcanons