Dear Devs, please bring the Male and Female Xaela Au-Ra closer to this artwork

[Nestama]

Their main audience = anime crowd
That should be enough explanation...lol

So boring (barring Roegadyn because at least they're adorable) playable races forever, then?

[SpiritMuse]

Miq females: human girl with cat ear headband.
Auri females: human girl with horn headband and painted scales.

They look like cosplay girls. Human cosplay girls. If you have beast races, stop making them human girls playing dressup. Mithra and Galka were in such a better direction,

I agree with this. I wanted to see more beastly looking women, in particular. Because it's so standard in games (and other media) to have the "alien" men look alien and weird, while the "alien" women just look human except maybe in a different color. Women characters are so often stuck in the "pretty girl" ghetto and it's getting really boring.

So was hoping that the female Au Ra were at least tall like the males (if they had been tall and fierce like the male Au Ra I would change to one as soon as they came out...), but since that sadly isn't happening I'm now hoping for maybe an extra face option for them that looks less "pretty" and more fierce and beast-like.

[Aryalandi]

Make the next introduced race beast tribe-like
I want my dragon faerie ;^;
Also i would rather they find a way to reduce current clipping before adding races that look like pieces on all their gear and hairstyles are superglued together

[kyuven]

Do you know an example? I never saw an interbreed between different races ingame, only adoptions.
Like F'lhaminn adopted Ascilia after Ascilia's father died in the streets of Uldah, overran by a wild Goobbue (this was before Ascilia renamed herself as Minfilia) .

In addition to Fern's post on the subject, there's at least one rather important NPC with mixed heritage.
There was...Allagan tampering...involved, but the end result is a Miqo'te with "Royal Allagan" blood. It's implied that there was tampering involved with his ancestors, but since as mentioned the Miqo'te weren't really around in Eorzea until the 5th Umbral Era, and the Allagan Empire fell before then, it stands to reason his ancestry is mixed.

[Terin]

Really, the only change the Males need is, for the Xaela, making them a tad more muscular. I highly doubt it would require all that much work; they could absolutely have it done before Heavensward launches. They wouldn't have to redo any animations.

The proposed change for the Females, though, are definitely much deeper. That's where I have less faith, but honestly, those Au Ra in the concept-art shown look fantastic. I just think they would have a lot to gain.

[SkyCri]

Riardon

They can still change the Au Ra race's physical appearance, all it takes is a patch update where the upgrade is within and it would immediately be implemented as soon as it's been installed. Now, as for the "level of buffness", I would think that it would have it's own sliders, just like how you can chisel the muscles on the Roegadyn. Or, y'know.. not give it a slider, whatever works the best of course.

As for calling the artwork "too beastly" for it to be a playable race... ?????????? Dude... The Roegadyn race are a wall of muscles (nearly the size of an Amalj'aa), the Miqo'te males are more toned and muscular than the Au Ra (when taking their height into account), and they are by definition a "beastly" race. As for "civilized races", I'd say you should go and take a look at the many races living in Damascus (Final Fantasy XII), many of the beastly races that live there, are very civilized.

[RLofOBFL]

Someone bumped this....y.


On topic <.< I kinda do wish Xaela was that original concept, more "adult" & less "cutsy schoolgirl" while Ra en are still what we have currently, similar to Mid/Highlanders

[Atlas-04]

That necro but I forgot how cool those designs were. Damn now I want that style in the game.

[Belhi]

They aren't going to do an overhaul of any great scale to the Au Ra at this point I don't think. It would require a lot of work, practically making a new race, it would upset people who felt attached to their existing character's look and it would annoy players who favour other races and want more variation between the clans of their preferred race.

[SilkaN]

Tbh I would rather have the devs spend some time on this than on Blitzball or other minigames.
But it won't happen, so w/e.