Feral beast race?

[Paladinleeds]

Unfortunately, as far as I'm aware, it's written into the lore that beast tribes can't be playable races due to the whole Warrior of Light thing and beast tribes cannot be warriors of light, since each beast tribe has a primal attachment to them (often one group for, one against said primal), but their fates are intertwined. As a result, adding a feral beast race would work in a similar vain to beast tribes and would therefore break a lot of lore.

Not only that, but due to the way that FFXIV handles armour and clothing, they can't use anything other than variants of existing races as attempting to make it fit those new proportions would be too much. It's why Au Ra are basically Hyurs with horns and scales.

Don't think that's enough of a reason, considering the events of Baelsar's Wall. That is unless you want to start considering Hyur as some sort of Beast Tribe. =P

GG. Retconned my own first point by not fully understanding the lore. There is something regarding the warrior of light and feral races though that prevents them from happening. Perhaps someone with more knowledge of the lore can expand on that point for me.

[Kyuuen]

Unfortunately, as far as I'm aware, it's written into the lore that beast tribes can't be playable races due to the whole Warrior of Light thing and beast tribes cannot be warriors of light, since each beast tribe has a primal attachment to them (often one group for, one against said primal), but their fates are intertwined. As a result, adding a feral beast race would work in a similar vain to beast tribes and would therefore break a lot of lore.

Don't think that's enough of a reason, considering the events of Baelsar's Wall. That is unless you want to start considering Hyur as some sort of Beast Tribe. =P