Au'ra conflict with lore?

[godwin]

Didn't she say in her intro that she hides her face to avoid misunderstandings with the local ppl not of Doma

[Sylentmana]

It makes me wonder if new Au Ra players will start in the same way the other races start the game. It would cause some conflict with lore if they don't make certain changes to quests and dialogue.

[Yukiba]

This isn't a good counterexample; coeurl may be wild beasts, but dragons certainly are not. Dragons are intelligent, thinking beings, capable of holding grudges and waging wars..

As for Yugiri's disguise.. it's my theory..

I really like this idea.. It makes sense and somewhat accounts for the hole in the lore that Tattered brought up.

Side note: It will be interesting to see how they work around job specific gear in the job quest line for the Au Ra.

[Asheilin]

As for Yugiri's disguise, since it will make little sense for her to be in disguise to hide her race once Au Ra adventurers are waltzing around without a care in the world as to whether they're seen or not, it's my theory that it will turn out that she's not hiding her face to disguise her race, but rather she's hiding her face because it is hideously scarred, or something along those lines.

The problem with this though, is Yugiri actually says that she hides her face so that Eorzea's people will not react horribly to her appearance (paraphrased) therefore, the "disfigured" is unlikely; specially given that we can have scars on our characters that would be classed as disfigured IRL. also some of the tattoos can look disfigured if you choose color well.

And after seeing the slides of Au Ra; it is possible that we can have scales on our faces which would explain why she wears the mask as well as covering her horns.

[Viridiana]

Personally, I'm just waiting for the Au Ra naming conventions to be revealed.

[Yukiba]

The problem with this though....

Yeah I definitly get where you are coming from.. But doesnt it make even less sense to let a new player starting Au Ra begin as everyone else has, given what tattered has already put forth with regard to the possible hole in the events of the main storyline? Surely there has to be some other reason that Yugiri covers her face aside from being an Au Ra.

[Sylentmana]

Personally, I'm just waiting for the Au Ra naming conventions to be revealed.

Considering Yugiri's name I would guess they either have Japanese sounding names or they use the naming conventions of the society in which they live. They don't seem like they are a particularly numerous race.

[Kuwagami]

I actually wonder how they're going to sort out Dragoons lore, since there was a big thing about their only being able to be one at a time (lorewise I think Yoshida said we're meant to ignore other players), but then 3.0s trailer shows us a whole group of them....

if I remember correctly, this isn't totally true.

The dragoons are an elite corp of the best lancers in Ishgard, and among them, only one is chosen by Nidhogg's Eye to become an azure dragoon, which one you became. There is no problem with having an entire army of dragoons fighting in Ishgard with that.

If I'm wrong, then it'll be a hell of an headache to sort it out

[Grayve]

if I remember correctly, this isn't totally true.

The dragoons are an elite corp of the best lancers in Ishgard, and among them, only one is chosen by Nidhogg's Eye to become an azure dragoon, which one you became. There is no problem with having an entire army of dragoons fighting in Ishgard with that.

If I'm wrong, then it'll be a hell of an headache to sort it out

This is correct, as I recall. The Azure Dragoon is chosen from the other dragoons... except the player character.

[treuhavik]

Yeah, I too remember reading something about Dragoons of the Holy See, with one chosen Azure Dragoon.

And, as Lyland said;

Some fans think they're half-demons rather than half-dragons, especially given the look of male au'ra.

Just because they have scales and horns, doesn't technically make them "Draconian". Though, Ishgard may still think otherwise. There's also very little chance the race was spawn from St. Shiva, being that the Au Ra are from an entirely different continent and culture.

The demon idea sounds interesting, but chances are they're just a beastly, slightly reptilian, humanoid.

I'm betting that the dragon-like race coming with dragon-themed expansion wasn't done for story or lore reasons, seeing that 2.2 and Yugiris' introduction had absolutely nothing to do with Ishgard. It's probably more that the Dev. team wanted to implement a "wildly different" 6th race and it just happened to line up for 3.0, regardless of its' content.