New Race Announced! The Au Ra

[Velox]

Sexism

[Magnesium02]

Man I thought beard rash was horrible enough. These chicks gotta deal with horn rash and/or accidental cheek puncturing when snogging

[jomoru]

Does anyone pay attention to this games story? There's a very good reason Shiva is worshiped by the Dravian heretics.



SPOILER:
She was an Ishgardian elezen woman that boinked dragons. Hence a dragon/elezen hybrid race was created!

And has nothing to do with them, Au'ra/i are from the far east. Says so in the Odin windup

[Penthy]

pretty much exactly what I was hoping for tbh.

day 1 race change whoo.

[riarro]

Their looks are pretty disappointing honestly. Inevitable clipping aside, I'm kind of annoyed they chose to make the difference in sexes so...much of the same thing we always see. I was hoping the Au Ra would be a more bestial race overall. Yet here we are, with females who seem to be a cross between a Midlander Hyur and Elezen, almost showing no draconian features. (I mean those horns are barely there, and the ears are pretty delicate, easily unnoticed with headgear or a hairstyle change.) And the males yet again with broad builds, much larger than their extremely petite counterparts, and slightly more bestial. But barely even. Coming from a fantasy game, it would have been so much more interesting, so much more fun to see them step away from the need to keep them "just human enough" to treat as an enlightened race (as the game calls our current playable races). When planning was it thought that anything else would be unlikable ? (cont.)

[riarro]

(continuing)
To be honest that one April Fools Joke is almost more appealing.

Not to say they aren't both beautiful, but this kind of sexual dimorphism is just so obnoxious after awhile. They managed to start off pretty okay with the Elezen, the Roegadyn, and the Lalafell, so I kind of had high hopes we'd have an even more varied playable race. A group that was a little more standout and high fantasy. I do hope that when the character creation is accessible, that we can have a little more freedom with our character's looks. Hopefully there are options aside from what was shown. Perhaps they're like our current classes, like how we have Midlanders and Highlanders, so we'll actually see more later.

[Nalien]

How tall are the Au'Ra ladies compared to existing races? I told myself I would change from cat for anything except something close to Padjal.

[Naelle]

I'll be server first AuRa dark knight!

[Terrini]

They look to be on par height wise with Miqote, and the males on par with Highlander Hyurs. Frankly, this race is the closest thing to Padjal players will see and is probably why they went the horns route because I've seen many who have been interested in Padjal, but lore-wise that's impossible.

And just because they're from Othard now doesn't mean that the race did not originate in Ishgard with Shiva and Dragons, that was like a thousand years ago and with the predjudice who wouldn't hop the ocean?

[Anarnee]

Love the guys~ They are GORGEOUS. Ah... Now if only the girls were as awesome...