New Race Announced! The Au Ra

[Kuwagami]

What dragon-human hybrids are there in past games? Ignoring Gria, there isn't really any that spring to mind readily, and they already look like the Gria minus the wings.

the Bangaa are reptilians, but not quite dragon-human hybrids (more like a monitor lizard). They do praise Adramelech as their god though, and Adramelech is a dragon.

[Volsung]

I like it! /thumbsup

I know some people may not think it goes far enough,
but any further than that and you hurt the amount of
people that will want to choose it. By making races look
similar enough to hyur, it ensures that people have a
very wide variety of choice without going off the deepend.

Its possible we may get something closer to a beastmen
in the future, but for now, I'm fine with this and welcome more
in the coming game.

Again, thats my opinion.

[Mirron]

the Bangaa are reptilians, but not quite dragon-human hybrids (more like a monitor lizard). They do praise Adramelech as their god though, and Adramelech is a dragon.

I wouldn't really consider them hybrids though. It'd be like considering the Qu amphibian-human hybrids. The Au Ra have pretty clear human attributes, they also have some dragon ones.

Also, the Bangaa don't worship Adrammalech. That's purely an FFTA thing, I don't think any of the Scions of Darkness are worshiped in XII.

[Kuwagami]

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Actually they could be, but maybe not in the sense of FFTA. The whole ivalice alliance block has connections going further than just being in the same world. In the original FFT, the scions of darkness were worshiped as angels despise being in reality demons. I may be wrong on the timeline, but as the people in Ivalice never really knew that the scions were demonic, they could have worshiped them thorough the ages until we meet them in flesh (sort of) in XII. But that's disgressing a bit as the Bangaa weren't there in FFT. Oh well.


And yeah I didn't mean to imply that Bangaa were hybrids. Just dragonic-ish figures in the FF series (monitor lizards are said to have inspired many dragon stories, and the Komodo dragon is the most known of them for that ^^)

[Wildsprite]

my personal take on the Au'Ra, I'm glad the females will have the option to be as shown. I never liked having my characters big. I don't mind at all that the males tower over the females one bit and no I don't think it's sexist. if you ever paid attention to some families(traditional Italian comes to mind) the smaller females tend to be more dominant than their much larger male counterparts.
not to mention that new race is a fan service as mentioned before which means





wait for it.





wait for it.
yeah that's right the players of 1.0 asked for a race like this and the concensus' we have had in the past have had a big influence since more people tend to play the smaller females and larger males it isn't a big surprise we get that in the new race.

[Viridiana]

yeah that's right the players of 1.0 asked for a race like this and the concensus' we have had in the past have had a big influence since more people tend to play the smaller females and larger males it isn't a big surprise we get that in the new race.

Less than 1/8 of legacy players who took the poll requested this type of race. It's actually 4th place in the poll, behind mammalian demi-beastmen, mixed heritage races (which have at least been confirmed possible in lore), and more clans for the existing races.

[Felis]

Less than 1/8 of legacy players who took the poll requested this type of race. It's actually 4th place in the poll, behind mammalian demi-beastmen, mixed heritage races (which have at least been confirmed possible in lore), and more clans for the existing races.

What if the Au Ra is within mixed heritage races? dragons + another race?

[Balipu]

I don't like the name of the race... It'll be in conflict with my character name >__<

Not a problem. My mi'qote girl still carries a male lala name as she is technically still him, with some optical tuning.

[Viridiana]

What if the Au Ra is within mixed heritage races? dragons + another race?

Ehh. . . I can see the argument, but I wouldn't agree. Mostly because the examples given in the poll lean towards it being a mix of two already-playable races.

[Walfan]

The majority of people will always choose a human-ish race, it's nothing new, especially in Japan, and they already have plenty to choose from.
Some of us however would have liked to have a little more diversity, it's fantasy and I enjoy it more when I can play something that truly feels different than what I am everyday.