Small glamour request for Au Ra - Yugiri's Hood!

I know that the Race-Specific sets do not usually come with an head piece, and that the Au Ra's headset has been shown when the race was announced at the Fan Festival.

However, just to embrace the lore a bit, I think it'd be nice if among their starter equiment, Au Ra came with a hood in the fashion of what Yugiri wears.

http://cdn.guildwork.net/albums/imag...5873a8b6d7.jpg

Of course, at the point in the MSQ story Au Ras will likely have no reason not to reveal themselves to the public, but as I imagine the race would be available at the New Game menu, I think it'd be nice for those choosing to start the game back from scratch as an Au Ra to have a lv1 Doman Hood to wear to not startle the NPCs in the early part of the Main Scenario quests, don't you think?

Just a small wish from a small roleplayer...!

This actually brings up an interesting point; how do they plan on explaining the sudden appearance of the Au Ra in the pre-Ishgard areas? I wonder if they'll change those quests?

How on earth does she see? lol

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Originally Posted by FyrmurlFloerasksyn

How on earth does she see? lol

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some fabric can be seen though.

Doesnt matter to me if it's starter gear, I just want to see it in game and perhaps various styles of it. It sure beats the hell out of the boring hood on any other armor that has a hood attached to it.

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Originally Posted by Terin

This actually brings up an interesting point; how do they plan on explaining the sudden appearance of the Au Ra in the pre-Ishgard areas? I wonder if they'll change those quests?

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Ishgard opened to us.

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Originally Posted by Lovescake

Ishgard opened to us.

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Not exactly. Given the lore we've received, the Xaela are nomadic and thus just haven't been around for a long time. And the Raen are Doman, so they've been mixed in with the refugees this entire time, we just haven't seen them (note that we've personally seen a grand total of maybe 10 to 20 refugees, yet Yugiri's plea to everyone strongly says that there's enough to fill multiple large ships)
It's strange, but they may not have anything to do with Ishgard currently, which is probably part of their lore. It makes sense that dragon people would be forced out of Ishgard at some point in history, given this Ishgard-Dragon war is literally ancient enough to have legends regarding it. It also fleshes out Doma a bit, which has been sorely needed.
I can imagine this connection is also why they haven't given us a lot of details regarding their origins: The Au Ra racial history could technically be considered a spoiler for the MSQ, so spilling more than what the races are doing now and where they live could count as an MSQ spoiler, like Yugiri's face.

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Originally Posted by Terin

This actually brings up an interesting point; how do they plan on explaining the sudden appearance of the Au Ra in the pre-Ishgard areas? I wonder if they'll change those quests?

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I have a feeling they'll hole any Au Ra NPCs up in Ishgard, easier to keep them there and bar entry to new players than to go back and change everything I guess.

This has nothing to do with Ishgard really. Again, I'm talking about the instance of players starting the game from the beginning, where an Au ra is still supposed to be an unknown thing. Our hero might want to conceal his/her features when stepping into Eorzea. So, a hood that came with the starting Race Specific Equipment could justify how no NPC from 2.0 up to 2.55 is not startled by his/her resemblance, thanks to the hood concealing their horns. It worked for Yugiri, so I'd guess it would work for us too, even with the tail in plain sight.

Yes, and let it be dyable.

Also, separate the hood from the torso. Just so we don't run into the cowl debacle.

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Originally Posted by Bluevann

This has nothing to do with Ishgard really. Again, I'm talking about the instance of players starting the game from the beginning, where an Au ra is still supposed to be an unknown thing. Our hero might want to conceal his/her features when stepping into Eorzea. So, a hood that came with the starting Race Specific Equipment could justify how no NPC from 2.0 up to 2.55 is not startled by his/her resemblance, thanks to the hood concealing their horns. It worked for Yugiri, so I'd guess it would work for us too, even with the tail in plain sight.

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Well, it's an MMO, you can't hide everything. Back when I first started playing as an arcanist I had all kinds spoiled for me like seeing peoples upgraded pets in the forms of Garuda Ifrit and Titan and the fairies.

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Originally Posted by kyuven

It's strange, but they may not have anything to do with Ishgard currently, which is probably part of their lore. It makes sense that dragon people would be forced out of Ishgard at some point in history, given this Ishgard-Dragon war is literally ancient enough to have legends regarding it.

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But they aren't dragon people...the updated lore just told us that heh.

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Originally Posted by Iromi

But they aren't dragon people...the updated lore just told us that heh.

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http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/heavensward/#story__race
HAS LONG BEEN DISPUTED does not mean ARE NOT.
This just means they're likely MORE than just dragon people, not that they're NOT dragon people. IMO this has Allagan fingerprints all over it.
Just like it "has long been disputed" whether or not Giant Pandas are in fact bears.

^the way they say that the hearing works and their horns...says its not dragon related at all heh

They first say how people speculate it, then pointed out why its not true...

But I suppose people will argue this until Yoshida himself says, yo..they ain't draguuuunz

Lol.

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Originally Posted by Iromi

^the way they say that the hearing works and their horns...says its not dragon related at all heh

They first say how people speculate it, then pointed out why its not true...

But I suppose people will argue this until Yoshida himself says, yo..they ain't draguuuunz

Lol.

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They said it's not an attribute of dragons. That still doesn't completely disprove it. On the website it says that their draconic origins are in dispute, meaning not completely proven or disproven. The fact that they felt the need to mention that specifically means it will probably be important later.

And, like the person before me said, they are probably the result of Allagan tampering, trying to transplant and improve the attributes of dragons onto a humanoid race.

For all we know, Doga and Unei could be the Dawn Father and Dusk Mother. (I don't know many allagans so i use them as examples)

Edit: You'd think square would possibly like to go the more interesting route and make them dragon people with some sort of crazy awesome history, rather than people who kinda sorta look like they could be dragon people but not really.

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Originally Posted by Iromi

^the way they say that the hearing works and their horns...says its not dragon related at all heh

They first say how people speculate it, then pointed out why its not true...

But I suppose people will argue this until Yoshida himself says, yo..they ain't draguuuunz

Lol.

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Let's really look at these two mentioned features and compare them to my theory:
1) Their enhanced senses. Boy howdy that seems like something someone trying to artificially create a species would do. In addition, while dragons themselves do not have this trait, it could be a side effect of cross-breeding/splicing with non-dragons.
2) The sexual dimorphism. This may be a result of the theorized gene splicing. Also, Dragons don't have sexual dimorphism that we know about, but again they could still carry the genetic possibility. And, once again, this is something that SCREAMS genetic manipulation by the Allagans.

"They're like dragons except these two things" sounds an awful lot like "they're like bears except for these few things."
Just because they develop their own differences over time doesn't mean that their origin isn't shared.

Ya I wish they weren't so vague ><

I hope we get more lore on them soon!