On the topic of a truly beastial new race... The big question becomes, then, WHY are they part of the player race collective? The current five races are all very similar in basic structure; they all have strong human-like traits. If we were to get a new race like the Ronso... Well, Ronso are pretty much as inhuman-looking as Amal'ja and Ixali. So why do Amal'ja and Ixali qualify as "Beastmen" when this new race joins us as "non-Beastmen"?

I think this is a can of worms that SE is likely to avoid opening. Whether bunny, lizard, or something completely unexpected, I'm pretty sure that the new race is going to be very humanlike in appearance, with only size/build/animal-bits to differentiate them from the other five races.