Races of the Source vs the First and those unique to each

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Originally Posted by myahele

The Elfin Bow in the loorbook talks about how there was once an tall and slender race knowns as "Elves" that the Allagans warred with and made extinct I think. It's not known if they were related to the modern Elezens.

At the very least, it looks like some racial names were shared between the Source and the 1st, but due to various reasons the names changed between shards. Makes sense since they all had the same origins until the Hydaelyn split the world

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It was also confirmed via minions that Elezens, Miqo'te, and Lalafell were known by the equivalent FFXI race names, Elvaan, Mithra, and Tarutaru, at one point in their respective histories on the Source, so there are already examples of names changing in game.

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Originally Posted by Nightsword

It was also confirmed via minions that Elezens, Miqo'te, and Lalafell were known by the equivalent FFXI race names, Elvaan, Mithra, and Tarutaru, at one point in their respective histories on the Source, so there are already examples of names changing in game.

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Not necessarily; the descriptions for the mithra, tarutaru and elvaan minions in the minion guide had a very tongue-in-cheek tone (using terms like "supposed ancestor"), and hinted that might have just been a bit of fanservice referencing to FFXI without actually welding that to the lore, suggesting even in-universe that it was just a bit of joking around by a trolling Sharlayan scholar. Besides, hyur in the First might be known as humes like FFXI, but the other races there did not share FFXI names (mystel instead of mithra for instance).

So until SE officially confirms that the races of people in FFXIV originally had the FFXI race names, I'm taking that as just yet another callback to a past FF game without specifically making it part of the lore.

I'm interested in the fact that the Xaela of the First are from Voeburt; I'm pretty sure all of them were Xaela in the flashbacks. So where did the Raen hang out originally?

I don't think they're really 'Xaela' though as the various clan variations seen on the Source don't seem to exist on the First (or if they did, the Flood of Light probably rendered it moot).

Another species (I use the term species as 'race' isn't really appropriate with these things) that interestingly is stated in-game as to be not be native to the First (in other words, does not actually have a true counterpart race), but has only shown up recently there... is the 'poster child' monster for ShB, the gremlins!

Despite showing up frequently as annoying enemies in Norvrandt (especially in Lakeland), a Lakeland sidequest actually reveals that gremlins only started appearing shortly after the Crystal Tower materialized nearly a century before and, further more, were believed to have actually come from the Tower, suggesting the ones seen in the First are actually from the Source, that they hitched a ride in the Crystal Tower from the Eighth-Umbral Era Source timeline and are now well and truly ingrained in Lakeland, where they're regarded as pests (none the less because they have a bad tendency to desecrate graves in cemeteries, adding further misery to the already suffering inhabitants).

So, they're basically now the First's version of feral rabbits in Australia (only with a lot more bad language) ;) ....