Au Ra physiology and other lore.

[Cilia]

What on earth could be causing such a delay in preparing the naming scheme posts? Is the game itself just keeping Koji & co. that busy (in which case, get excited and also mail them pizza and beer out of gratitude please), or are the Xaela conventions that complicated?

Both?

Probably a little bit of both. They do have to translate Heavensward's script into like 5 languages, and that is a LOT of text to translate and correspond with across that many languages.

That said, they said back in March they had the naming schemes fully realized, so I don't imagine it would take that long to translate them. I just want to be able to name this tough cutie:

P.S. I really will send them a pizza if they get it out before the end of the month.

[Kedrah]

I'm frustrated but at the same time I know it's not a top priority, and that they're swamped with working on Heavensward and doing interviews and conferences and whatnot.
Still, I don't like broken promises/official statements being changed. ;n;

[lololink]

According to the Gamewatch interview the females Au Ra were supposed to be the kind of women you want to protect while the male were supposed to be more dark, they didn't plan to have a succubus kind of female Au Ra at first. ( http://game.watch.impress.co.jp/docs...26_703330.html )

The emotes seems to make the males looks like they are happy young men and the women looks very shy.

[Cilia]

I'm frustrated but at the same time I know it's not a top priority, and that they're swamped with working on Heavensward and doing interviews and conferences and whatnot.
Still, I don't like broken promises/official statements being changed. ;n;

Welcome to the MMO community, where every given date can be replaced with "soon™!"

[Beckett]

It was mentioned during the Lore panel section of the Nico Live event around April 25th, after all of the picture links in there.

Thank you!

It says,

For this (Au Ra naming conventions), we are trying to prepare for simultaneous worldwide publication. Since it's a priority to work on the translation of [Heavensward] to get ready for its release, we decided to forego the release (of the naming conventions) in late May.

Everyone was looking forward to this, so actually there is no excuse.

Once the publication date and time is finalized, we will inform you again, but for now we ask that you please wait a while.

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Here's the post.

Damn it!

[Samcaesar]

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Yeah I actually replied to that first person, and I'm both hoping and thinking the "Au Ra have nothing to do with dragons" is a red herring/false information to keep us from guessing too much about the story or any Au Ra characters. I really wouldn't mind if they were just reptilian in nature either, it just feels weird having a "warrior of light" that has demonic origins. And honestly the succubus scale pattern is notable, but hardly anything to make too much of a note about due to the comparison basically stopping there and the lack of any humanoid dragons to make a comparison to.

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I'm sorta hoping it's the opposite case just to sort of add to the information of the nature of dragons and demons in this universe, like perhaps some voidsent are capable of redemption and good from their nature becoming a "dawn father" while "dusk mother" could be noting some dragons like that really creepy looking one in AK HM or the one at the end of the benchmark.

Also StarDrake, I really dig your theory and hope you're right, especially with that side note in mind!

the females Au Ra were supposed to be the kind of women you want to protect

Well that's just kind of depression as someone who wanted to roleplay as a tough and independent Au Ra girl >.>

I still really wish they did a Highlander/Midlander split with the Xaela/Raen. It makes so little for a warring nomadic group to have girls that look like "the kind of woman you want to protect" as opposed to ones who can hold their own and defend themselves.

[Cilia]

Well that's just kind of depression as someone who wanted to roleplay as a tough and independent Au Ra girl >.>

I still really wish they did a Highlander/Midlander split with the Xaela/Raen. It makes so little for a warring nomadic group to have girls that look like "the kind of woman you want to protect" as opposed to ones who can hold their own and defend themselves.

For the sake of saving time, the colloquial term for "the kind of [person] you want to protect" is moe.

That said... it is possible to make a non-moe Au Ra woman without resorting to Face 4 / Eyes 3. Takes time and a little effort, but it's not impossible.

Besides, even if they've got a moe appearance that says nothing about their personality or abilities. Just look at Yugiri - she's on the pretty end of the scale, but still arguably the best Ninja in all Eorzea at the moment (though that isn't saying much). Heck, the Lalafell all look like Precious Moments figurines, but we know the Ul'dahn Dunesfolk are (almost) all ruthless capitalists.

Don't judge a book by it's cover, blah blah blah...

Also, you can get around the character limit by editing in the extra text a second after posting it.

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Like this, f'ex:

(The left is still a bit cute, but it's hard to remove all traces of cuteness without Face 4. Their body language is intrinsically cute as well, but... can't do anything about that.)

[Samcaesar]

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I dunno, when I saw Yugiri I kinda saw her a little less "moe" more just just really relaxed looking? Sorta like women in the 60's and 70's did with their more "natural" look.
I think I went with Face 4 Eyes 4 and I'm sorta satisfied with the look, trying to prevent a sorta passive pissed off look. I just primarily don't want the basis for the girl's of a race to be "moe", rather "This is the race's base, this is the modification we're adding to it to make it different", otherwise you get a situation in which there is 30 flavors of "moe" and 2 flavors of tough. Not to mention "moe" is probably why Au Ra girls can't be taller than 5'2 which still frustrates me >.> I mean, I know they can be tough personality and look cute, but it's a little silly that the proud tribal warrior women are also "moe".

I'm aware :P I've just accepted that 9/10 my posts will be 400+ words over the limit, cut off early and edit it with that in. Hopefully SE will increase the character limit and daily post limit so I won't have to worry! 1071 characters over this time :P Oops!

[WyrahFhurrst]

I really don't see how face 4 isn't cute... And somehow it bothers me, because that's the face I've already chosen.



See? She's cute!

[Samcaesar]

Got the exact opposite problem! Thought face 4 was the mean one, then everyone has it going "It's sooo cute!"



I just wish I could crank her height from 5'2 to 6'0 at least.