Au Ra physiology and other lore.

[Aryalandi]

It has been said in an interview that females can be made to look like the succubi from haukke manor which they sort of can with the right features, it has been said that their motif is demons, that does not mean that they are demon people it just means that it is what they are based on.

Original concept art description makes them out to be dragon people, lore indicates that it is debated enough by scholars to be mentioned that some people think they were born via the Shiva-theory (which does not mean from Shiva and her dragon personally) but it is more or less debunked because au ra hear with their horns and have other differences dragons don't display

The lore the au ra believe is very similar to a real life story depicting a dragon (human form) being with a faerie~ even the race name is similar.

So while i personally go with dragon faeries as a thing because of the scales/horns/tail they are demon based in some ways at least.

I can imagine the heavy debate between scholars happened because of our debates here honestly.. also picturing a scholar from ishgard being introduced to an auri and flipping out.

Ishgard scholar: DRAGON!?
Other scholar: person..
Ishgard scholar: DRAGON PERSON!?
Othet scholar: person person..
Ishgard scholar: SCALES! HORNS! TAIL!
Other scholar: horns are for hearing..
Ishgard scholar: Dragon's don't do that!
Other scholar: finally we are getting somewhere that isn't down a chasm...