New Race Announced! The Au Ra

[Sartori]

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!

Doesn't change the fact that they are ugly

[Felis]

Doesn't change the fact that they are ugly

How look this ugly?

[RyuDragnier]

How look this ugly?

I personally feel the females look better than the males. If you notice, the scales on her body look like she's wearing ornaments of her tribe. The one on the lower arm to her hand specifically looks like a cool looking gauntlet.

[Mahri]

So, I'd be one of the first to call out sexism, but really, this doesn't bug me too much. If anything I'm more disappointed that the male version is leaning hard on a sort of overwrought shonen-anime stereotype much like the male miqo'te, and doesn't get to be nearly so elegant as this. Guys can be cutesy in FFXIV (lalafell) and girls can be totally swole (roegadyn) but where's the semi-androgynous prettyboy option?

As for what we've got here: I really like the skin thing for some reason. It adds character -- if anything, I wish they'd gone more heavy on it, though it seems the artists were reluctant to "tarnish" the character's beauty, sad to say. What I'm seeing here is a character who can have a bit of the beastly look of miqo'te girls without the forced anime cutesiness, and a bit of the grace of elezen without those ultra-wierd proportions.