Quote Originally Posted by Lambdafish View Post
-Garuda
- One of the less excusable ones, yet still not the boobified slut that is being suggested
- portrayed as powerful, scheming, and far from womanly
- Designed in 1.0 by a different dev team
FFXIV's Garuda is based off of FFXI's female Garuda. Genderswaping Garuda was likely done to slightly balance out how male heavy the other Avatars were.