Lupin - make it a playable race!

[Abriael]

Ehhh. As far as the story is concerned all it knows is you are a man or woman and is finally figuring out what job you are. Other than that the story does not give a single shit what race you are for the longest time. You could be a talking rock and it wont care.

The story never mentions that the Warrior of light is human either, the warrior of light is just someone blessed by the mother crystal.

You may have skipped quite a lot of dialogue. The story is very explicit in talking about the beastmen as something extraneous to the warrior of light.

I do understand that some are desperate for a race that looks less humanoid, and you can feel free to hold your breath on it if it floats your boat, but do remember to breathe once in a while, because you're gonna be holding for a long, long time.

In the meanwhile, it's very easy to see that a race like this would be ultra-niche, even more niche than Roegadyn, and even if SE was willing to bend the existing story (which probably isn't the case), a game in this stage of maturity needs a potentially popular race to drive sales and subscription, not something a small minority would ever care to play. A new race is a big investment in terms of development resources (the less human-like, the more resources it requires for skeletons, rigs, animations, models and tweaks to existing and future equipment), and needs an equally big return in order to be greenlighted.

Needless to say, dogheads don't fit that bill.