Future Races for FFXIV

[Tupsi]

I don't know about you, but some people are actually really good at creating character stories and backgrounds. It wouldn't be hard at all to come up with something that makes sense.

Except it honestly would - Read the backstory on Mandragoras for example. It literally states they crawled out of a hole after Dalamud's descent. That's so creative and fits them into the lore perfectly! New Races are finicky to add, especially if purely beast like, say Bangaa. The only race that'd largely make sense in current world would be Gria because while Ishgard despises all thing Dragons, when in FF history has it not been seen where unlikely pairings happen? One of the most popular Female Character in FF history is a mix of an Esper and Human.

What this means is, Gria could easily be explained...easily. Viera and such though? They'd have to work some magic to explain why unlike 1.x lore, they suddenly exist.

[Seif]

its pretty widely believed that Viera are going to be a future available race in the game.

I wanna be a male viera so bad.

[Lady_Venus]

its pretty widely believed that Viera are going to be a future available race in the game.

YES PLEASE! GIMME MY BUNNY EARS! XD

[Lady_Venus]

I wouldn't mind this race too! would be awesome to play as a Gria ^_^

[Luso]

I really hope its Quan!


But honestly I'd rather them not screw up the lore just to toss in a new race that didn't exist in the world before. Set up a complete back story for the race. Don't just toss in some random race of peoples to make more monies.

[Naunet]

its pretty widely believed that Viera are going to be a future available race in the game.

Ick, I certainly hope not. That'd be like taking Lightning and turning her into a permanent presence in Eorzea. FFXIV should be FFXIV, not "an opportunity to parade around the most desirable characters of our other ~totally imaginative and not at all self-referencing~ games".

Let's see something new! The possibilities are quite literally endless.

It would be most likely (and only natural) that the Padjal are going to be playable. After all, body-wise they're Hyurs, so it wouldnt take a lot, or -any- coding to have armor fit on them and such.

I think this would be even more of a cop-out than those bunny people...

awesome dude

I loved playing as that guy. His animations were so cool. xD

Introducing any new races would require heavy explanation of where they came from, why Eorzea is somehow allowing this new race of people to march through its lands completely unchecked, and why members of this new race would be willing to fight under the Eorzean banner against Garlemald.

That's what story-telling is for. There are people who make a living doing that. They are called writers! I say give them a chance to be creative for once, instead of relying on re-used FF assets. Also, there are at least two other continents on Eorzea we know nothing about.

[Zhane]

[jomoru]

Except it honestly would - Read the backstory on Mandragoras for example. It literally states they crawled out of a hole after Dalamud's descent. That's so creative and fits them into the lore perfectly! New Races are finicky to add, especially if purely beast like, say Bangaa. The only race that'd largely make sense in current world would be Gria because while Ishgard despises all thing Dragons, when in FF history has it not been seen where unlikely pairings happen? One of the most popular Female Character in FF history is a mix of an Esper and Human.

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I don't see why people miss how blatantly Ishgard is being setup for the "Save them from their evil church' Trope. Dragoon talks about restoring peace between people and dragons. LW out and out uses a Real world Nazi reference when describing working for Ishgard. The Main story talks about how the Dragons were pushed by Ishgard first they are striking back.

[Button]

Yes please.

BUUT then again, I think what this game needs is a not-so-humanoid character like this, from TERA.

[Roda]

I'd really like to see final fantasy's spin on a fawn type race.
Like, something really colorful and fun!

Of course, this is sitting well within the lands of never-gonna-happen since SE can't even manage human meshes without saying "the anatomy is too hard," so they're definitely not going to want to do goat/deer/fantasy-hooved-animal legs, ears, tails, and horns. :T

Pretty sure they're just gonna go Viera, cause it would be easy for them to hype up.