I have played around with this, even though the species name appears blank, it will recognise the species ID in the appearance_table.iff Great work by the way Halyn =)
Not sure where I went wrong but I'm having a strange issue that I'm sure is server-side.
Anyone else getting this, where you create a character and upon creation you can walk around etc. (can't use or wear anything yet cause I never changed those luas) but once you log off you cannot log him/her back on.
If I try to log on one of them I instantly get an error saying that the select character was not found and that it's a server problem and I should contact customer support.