Padjal Race

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I just started the 50+ white mage quests, and the #1 reason Ray-o-Senna has you running around doing things is because she is physically unable to leave the Twelveswood. She point blank says it.

Play a bit more and you'll see that reason is BS.

[Laerune]

Screw Padjal, I just want to play a character with the body and height of the Padjal and Alphinaud. I hate how the only way to be short as a male character is to play a Lalafell. I realy hope the next race will have short males with slender body type.

[Vejjiegirl]

She moved her forest duties to Raya

Ahh so they are not Physically unable to leave (like for example if they leave they would die.)
Its more if they leave without anyone looking after the elementals(listening to them) it would cause harm to the Twelveswood?

[Gilraen]

How does Kan-E-Senna leave then?

Well... she'd expressly asked the elementals for leave so she could form the Twin Adders to fight the Garlean threat. The Garleans were encroaching on the Twelveswood much as the Ixal were, but factors more in 'efficiency' thanks to magitek. Understandably, the elementals gave her a wave cause hell if aether-powered machinery didn't pose a bigger threat than a bird-man with an axe. This isn't really a 3.0 thing, she's shown overseeing the Twin Adders at Carteneau and attending meetings in Ul'dah.

[Averax]

Ahh so they are not Physically unable to leave (like for example if they leave they would die.)
Its more if they leave without anyone looking after the elementals(listening to them) it would cause harm to the Twelveswood?

I think they can leave of their own volition if they will it. Isn't that pretty much what A-Towa-Cant did? He did not want to stay in the Twelveswood, so he left to heal the world rather than just the forest.

[Samcaesar]

Screw Padjal, I just want to play a character with the body and height of the Padjal and Alphinaud. I hate how the only way to be short as a male character is to play a Lalafell. I realy hope the next race will have short males with slender body type.

Hah, trust me I'd kill for a nice strong, tough looking race where the girls aren't distinctly smaller, weaker, or young looking than the men of that race. Even the Roegadyn women are like.. Half the thickness of men, it's so dumb.

[Daralii]

Ahh so they are not Physically unable to leave (like for example if they leave they would die.)
Its more if they leave without anyone looking after the elementals(listening to them) it would cause harm to the Twelveswood?

They act as intermediaries between the Elementals and mortals. Without them, there's no communication possible between the Gridanians and beings that could wipe them out at a moment's notice.

Kan-E has to leave to fulfill her duties as head of state and commander of the military, but that's not a problem with Rayya-O, O-App, and E-Sumi. A-Towa-Cant's the only one to have left for personal reasons.

[Samcaesar]

They act as intermediaries between the Elementals and mortals. Without them, there's no communication possible between the Gridanians and beings that could wipe them out at a moment's notice.

Kan-E has to leave to fulfill her duties as head of state and commander of the military, but that's not a problem with Rayya-O, O-App, and E-Sumi. A-Towa-Cant's the only one to have left for personal reasons.

Yeah I think the way it works is the Elementals have to grant express permission for it to occur, which is why Kan-E-Senna can leave, because without her and the Eorzean alliance who knows what would happen to the Twelveswood, but Raya and her brother are stuck in the forest. I guess A-Towa-Cant just got the favor of the Elementals to go around doing cleansing rituals and all elsewhere in the world.

[Soldowner]

i'd LOVE to play one, but as everyone else said, it doesn't really suit the lore, but i think SE could find a way around it if they really wanted to, for example, have some big disaster/threat happen near gridania, and the elementals freaks out/go haywire and create a shit ton padjal to protect the land, or something, idk, im sure SE could find a way to work it into the lore

Hopefully they'll use the cute bunny kid race they showed in the concept art, i really want another cute/young race other than Lalafell! :c they're too tiny

Eh? What? What bunny race?

[Gilraen]

Eh? What? What bunny race?

In a recent live letter there was talk of actually doing Viera in XIV but they couldn't make them unique enough to not infringe on the uniqueness of Miqo'te. So instead we got Au Ra, which were also going to be even more unique than what we got but there were fears of being maybe too 'unique' for the home audience (i.e. Japanese). Honestly, kind of glad Viera never happened. People seem to be managing just fine playing at Viera with the bunny ears.