Quote Originally Posted by odie View Post
2.) They immediately became playable without any real introduction.
While this is true, if you play the Dark Knight story past 50, you'll get a bit more discussion of the relations between Ishgard and Au Ra (hint: they aren't good). What's discussed in the DRK story is a halfway decent hand wave for why there aren't more Au Ra NPCs in Ishgard anyway, and Gridania has always been unwelcoming to outsiders, while Ul'dah and Limsa turned the refugees down. The only place I would really expect to see more Au Ra is in Mor Dhona, and in unassimilated areas like Tailfeather, Idyllshire, etc. I think they just added a couple Au Ra NPCs to Idyllshire and quests starting there this patch? Just like with male Miqo'te, they are trying to increase their presence in the game--it just takes a while to build up enough quests for them to seem like they're even on remotely equal footing with the other, more long-standing races.

Probably not in the next expansion, but I'm willing to bet we'll go to Othard soon enough and get bombarded with Au Ra in the future.

I'd also like to point out that though they are few, the quality of the Au Ra NPCs feels overall pretty high to me. I mean, we have the bae Sidurgu, what more do you want?