Quote Originally Posted by Starkiller View Post
Honestly, I'm not sure what to make of this character. From the sneak peeks that we are seing of patch 2.2, it sure seems like there are a lot of possibilites for a new race and class. It's either that, or they are introducing us to a new race/class in story first and plan to implement it into the game later?

I cannot wait for the news to be shared from the upcoming Live Letter!
Well, my comment had a healthy dose of sarcasm directed at those people who see one image or detail and jump to the wildest conclusions using Superman-like leaps of logic.

That said, it's clearly a new race and I believe it is certainly possible it is a set-up for a new player race becoming available in a future expansion. What better way to introduce a new race to the existing game than having them immigrate en masse as part of a story-line. Once integrated that way, they would fit seamlessly into the current starting story in which players are simply adventurers who happen to travel to one of the 3 starting cities and become champions of that city and eventually Eorzea. This is very similar to the same story that Galka had in FFXI, except that in that case it had already happened in the past. In this case it would be in the present, and we would participate in the telling of that history.

It could also just be a new NPC race.