New Race Announced! The Au Ra

[seida]

I'm bit disappointed with the females. Didn't Yugiri say stuff like she wasn't ready to show her face because how people might find it disturbing or something the like? From what I see, that's barely different from a padjal. I was hoping for something like this:


:S Would've been x100 cooler, imo.

I agree, from what we've seen the Au Ra females don't even seem to have scales on their faces. Showing her face would hardly disturb people.

[Korilynn]

Wait...does this mean my days of all Miqo'te dungeons will becoming to an end?

[Parodine]

Yeah, the only way her face would've disturbed people was if she has very prominent horns. From her mask, maybe she does. But the females do look just a bit like midlanders with a tail.

[Sylve]

Yeah, the only way her face would've disturbed people was if she has very prominent horns. From her mask, maybe she does. But the females do look just a bit like midlanders with a tail.

Just rewatched the Au Ra video from this thread {http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/210223-For-those-who-missed-the-FF-vids}
if you look closely, the female Au Ra actually has scales on her neck and her forehead.
The horns also seem to be quite visible, even from the front.

[Its_Elodie]

I for one really like the new race and I'll be an Au'Ra femme day one I like my cat, but I identify more character-wise with the new race. They are petite, exotic, and still not overdone yet very pretty <3 I'm not particularly digging the males, but I'm going to wait until I see them in game before I pass any judgement on them. They might end up growing on me. I'm just hoping for a free Fantasia with the expansion, but I'm not going to hold my breath.

[Balipu]

I for one really like the new race and I'll be an Au'Ra femme day one I like my cat, but I identify more character-wise with the new race. They are petite, exotic, and still not overdone yet very pretty <3 I'm not particularly digging the males, but I'm going to wait until I see them in game before I pass any judgement on them. They might end up growing on me. I'm just hoping for a free Fantasia with the expansion, but I'm not going to hold my breath.

Same here. Of course if I can't get my hands on a new fantasia potion I will have to settle for a retainer, but I always go for the most exotic race-class combo whenever I play. That will be Au-Ra astrologian. And besides. We need the insight of living as a half dragon if we want a just conlcusion to the war between Ishgard and the dravanian horde.

Still, I was surprised that we learned the new race like this. I always envisioned the reveal to come in-game from Yugiri. Now I know she looks cute.

[Sylve]

I agree, from what we've seen the Au Ra females don't even seem to have scales on their faces. Showing her face would hardly disturb people.

Unless the face that was shown was one among many ...

Who is to say we wont also get more reptilian face styles, or different placements for the scale patches?
Until we see the full range of creation options, we wont be able to say for sure. Maybe Yugiri got a bit too much Dragon in her.

[Muzetta]

I agree, from what we've seen the Au Ra females don't even seem to have scales on their faces. Showing her face would hardly disturb people.

That's the thing though, it's a mere teaser with preset characters. We don't know what other face options etc. will look like. I'd say it's quite possible there will be a more fierce, if you will, option for the females that might have scales for example. We'll find out in 2.5 I'm sure. :P