Au Ra physiology and other lore.

[Samcaesar]

One thing people seem to be forgetting is that it's not like 3.0 exists on a separate timeline; 2.x happened before it, and even if you're an Au Ra you still helped out Haruchefant and Aymeric. The former could simply relay information about your... idiosyncrasies... to the latter, who would then vouch for you following 2.4-2.5.5's events.

The weird thing about that is now Au Ra are on Eorzea before Yugiri was even there, which might work for the Xaela, but for the Raen, who seem to be coming from Doma I'm pretty sure, makes incredibly little sense. And let's not kid ourselves, not like Ishgardians really listen to reason unless if some super serious shit happens to those in higher positions (Look at the stuff that happened with that Inquisitor)