New playable race?

[Teslo]

I hope this will not happen, but past mmorpgs have gone that route before.

Has Yoshi-P said that Yugiri's race will be the playable one? I reckon with a expansion we will be introduced to other new races, so it could be that the playable one will not be shown untill after 2.5.

There was a cosplay contest at the Las Vegas show and one person entered as Yugiri. People kept asking "What's under the hood!?" and while on stage the PR guy there (Forgot his name ._.; ) said, "Yoshi, stop yelling 'New race!'". I'm sure there's a video of it somewhere.

Yeah, Yugiri is a member of the new player race. lol

Personally I'm hoping for something original and not one of the races from any of the Tactics games. I'll be pretty disappointed if it ends up being a Tactics race (Viera included).

[Ultimatecalibur]

Well part of the 2.4 story had the implication that Shiva was the mother of half-dragons.

[Felis]

Well part of the 2.4 story had the implication that Shiva was the mother of half-dragons.

She sleeped with a dragon (and became the first heretic because of this), but there was no info that she got pregnant from a dragon.

[Nestama]

The new race will just wind up being a Hyur with animal accessories like the Miqo'te (remove their ears and tails and what do you get?). Nothing new, really.

[ChazNatlo]

The new race will just wind up being a Hyur with animal accessories like the Miqo'te (remove their ears and tails and what do you get?). Nothing new, really.

Well, with different emotes and slightly different facial structures. The females at least also skew a little shorter than the Hyur. I mean, shy of it being something like the Bangaa, which I imagine would be a nightmare to armour for (still, bangaa for 3.0, anybody? Just me?) most of them would be human plus. Of the the races we currently have, only lalas and roe males can be considered significantly different from humans, and then barely. I suspect it's just an easier design to work with.

[Nestama]

Easier just reads as lazier to me, unfortunately (of course, Yoshi-P's team can't be faulted for this) :/
SE had the chance to introduce a new race that could be more beastly (think Charr or something from GW2), but instead what we were teased with may just wind up being another Hyur+ :<
-Though if her face winds up being less human and more... interesting, then I'll eat my gingerbread hat.

[ShenDrakar]

It's pretty apparent Yugiri is a lizard-like race if you look at her tail. And Yugiri isn't just a reskinned Miqote, her ears are totally different.

Ears or horns...

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Well, with different emotes and slightly different facial structures. The females at least also skew a little shorter than the Hyur. I mean, shy of it being something like the Bangaa, which I imagine would be a nightmare to armour for (still, bangaa for 3.0, anybody? Just me?) most of them would be human plus. Of the the races we currently have, only lalas and roe males can be considered significantly different from humans, and then barely. I suspect it's just an easier design to work with.

If they made Bangaa playable, I'd buy a fantasia JUST for that.

[Ultimatecalibur]

She sleeped with a dragon (and became the first heretic because of this), but there was no info that she got pregnant from a dragon.

Which is why I said implication. By sleeping with dragons there is this implication that she might have gotten pregnant. Combine that with Yugiri's scaled tail and what could be horns and you have a fairly decent argument for a race of half-dragons descended from Shiva.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

But do we know who her baby daddy is?