Does an Auri Warrior of Light make sense at all?

[Serilda]

I've always been a Duskwight and NPCs never seem to notice, especially jarring in one early scene where I stood there, maximum height, dark grey skin and all, and had to listen to a major NPC warning me about my own kind as though I'd never heard of them before. I think they're used to seeing all kinds of adventurers and just blank on any common sense when addressing us.

I think you can explain the Yuugiri thing away reasonably enough; she's not only Au Ra, but also a refugee in a city with a major refugee problem already. Overtly drawing attention to her relatively exotic looks might have given her trouble in the past and caused her to think that it would undermine her negotiations.

[Clethoria]

I stood there, maximum height, dark grey skin and all, and had to listen to a major NPC warning me about my own kind as though I'd never heard of them before. I think they're used to seeing all kinds of adventurers and just blank on any common sense when addressing us.

I didn't play 1.0 so maybe, taking a stab here, the NPC interactions are based off the assumption the PC would be some young, common race youth. RIP to anyone who made themselves an older man or their best attempt at a 30+ woman because every NPC treats you like you're mid twenties at max.

Also, maybe it would be simply too much programming to have NPCs react differently to every single race/class/job at any given time like a calculator.