Talk:Mare Bello Fiore/Abilities and Powers/@comment-186.209.67.16-20190517132223/@comment-644793-20190524203700

Mare is part of a humanoid race (dark elf) as opposed to a heteromorphic one (like almost everyone else in Nazarick), which means that he literally cannot take racial levels because his race cannot evolve the way a heteromorph would. An imp, for example, can grow into a devil, then an arch-devil, with time. Humanoid races are static, only gaining some basic racial abilities at creation and that's it.

This means that neither Mare nor Aura can improve their racial abilities, but also that they are free to put all their levels into job/class, so it evens out in the end. Most YGGDRASIL players were reluctant to play heteromorphic races because it was more difficult to create a good build when you had to balance both your racial and job classes.