Au Ra physiology and other lore.

[Iromi]

Taken from yesterdays event:

•Aura are not related to Dragons. Their motif are demons.

http://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/33teai/nico_super_fate_day_1_qa_and_other_stuff/

Been saying it forever, that they are DEMON BASED. now Koji himself confirmed it.

:3

[Lydeck]

From the Q&A at the event:

Aura naming rules coming end May.

Sigh.

[Cilia]

I'm curious as to why they're keeping the naming conventions under such heavy wraps. It's a relatively minor detail they've... well not said they've gotten it totally worked out, but are close, and that was almost 2 months ago.

[Aryalandi]

Hmm... It seems like the horns styles are bound to the face type you choose?
If that's the case, that's quite disappointing; I was under the impression that they'd be more customizable than that.

It might not always be this way however, it has been said that the initial benchmark will be somewhat limited, and that they plan to update it in the future, changing horn styles may come closer to launch, or there may just be several different horn styles attached to each face like they do with elezen/lala.

[Keydah]

It might not always be this way however, it has been said that the initial benchmark will be somewhat limited, and that they plan to update it in the future, changing horn styles may come closer to launch,

I hope so, but I doubt it. I'm far too picky about faces and a couple of the female horn styles are really unattractive. I don't want to have to settle for attractive horns and meh face or attractive face and meh horns. Either way, there's nothing I'll be able to tell until I can play with the benchmark myself tomorrow night.
Either way, I'm pretty sure they meant the limitations were the amount of options like hairstyle or paint or such. I'd be happy to be proven wrong, though.

[Kedrah]

I'm pretty sure they said in the Nico event that they managed to finish the Au Ra character creation after all so it's not limited.

On another note, extremely annoyed and disappointed about the naming conventions not coming for another friggin month. Why the wait?

[Omegakiyohime]

Hmm... It seems like the horns styles are bound to the face type you choose?
If that's the case, that's quite disappointing; I was under the impression that they'd be more customizable than that.

I think that option is just the face types menu. The Screenshot with the 4 that I assume you are referring to just says face types. They've shown off at least 5 different types on various faces. We'll see soon.

[Gemma]

I'm curious as to why they're keeping the naming conventions under such heavy wraps. It's a relatively minor detail they've... well not said they've gotten it totally worked out, but are close, and that was almost 2 months ago.

I'm assuming its cause they know people want to reserve names for their characters so they are trying to wait as long as they can so we don't all make a bunch of alts as placeholders.

At least we know a bit about them though, one is very Doman style (Japanese) & the other is nomadic so they use the naming conventions around them. So you could have one with a miqote style name or hyur.

[Kedrah]

I think that option is just the face types menu. The Screenshot with the 4 that I assume you are referring to just says face types. They've shown off at least 5 different types on various faces. We'll see soon.

If that's so, that's relieving. I can't read the text because it's too small and my eyes aren't so good so I'm just going off the little thumbnails. ;w;

[LycorisSelunis]

I love on the bottom it's showing you can have the inner iris and outer iris a different color, instead I guess of the current ability to have different left and right irises.

I am wondering if the ability to have a sparkle in the eye isan option because sometimes there is a shine and other times there is not. And without it the eyes look dead.

edit- hoping some of those new hairstyles will be available on other races too! I am glad to see the old race hairstyles available as well.