Viera as the next new race~ Show your support

[Ayer2015]

Depends on whether the Ivalice we're going to is the very same Ivalice from Tactics Advance and XII (in which case it'll have more than one Ivalice race), or a rewritten Ivalice to fit FFXIV's lore. If it's the latter, then who knows (might just end up being XIV races). If it's the former, then it can't be possible.

Yugiri came from a foreign land off to the east that already exists on Hydaelyn. If Viera come from the Tactics Advance and XII Ivalice, which will not exist on Hydaelyn until 4.1, then it won't make sense. How can a race exist on Hydaelyn (beginning of the ARR story), when they technically shouldn't even be on Hydaelyn up until a certain part of the story (after The Royal Menagerie)?

AuRa don't even make sense in 2.0 content.... Its not hard to write in rational if the devs really want to though. I don't see the point personally.

[Nestama]

AuRa don't even make sense in 2.0 content.... Its not hard to write in rational if the devs really want to though. I don't see the point personally.

I'm aware of how odd it is that NPC's don't even bat an eyelid at the appearance of an Au Ra (especially Yugiri), however that doesn't change the fact that Au Ra already exist on Hydaelyn. So the player themselves can imagine their Au Ra came from Othard, or their characters family/ancestors came from Othard. If Viera already exist on Hydaelyn (under a different name) on Islabard or the New World, then they can eventually become playable maybe (and hopefully SE would actually redo some of the old ARR-SB cutscenes to have NPC's take a slight interest to the new race standing before them), but if they come to Hydaelyn from an optional side-story portal to Tactics Advance or XII's Ivalice... then I'm sorry, but no.

You can't even imagine up a decent backstory to how something from a different world altogether winds up in Hydaelyn before it can without it sounding similar to a terrible self-insert fan-fiction.

[kikix12]

You can't even imagine up a decent backstory to how something from a different world altogether winds up in Hydaelyn before it can without it sounding similar to a terrible self-insert fan-fiction.

No one said in the game that there is no such race as Viera. Au Ra didn't "exist" until it was made, either. Who's to say that there are no Viera in Hydelyn?! They may just have been somewhere where the player was not present.

Simple.

[Nestama]

No one said in the game that there is no such race as Viera. Au Ra didn't "exist" until it was made, either. Who's to say that there are no Viera in Hydelyn?! They may just have been somewhere where the player was not present.

Simple.

Read my entire post. Specifically this part: "If Viera already exist on Hydaelyn (under a different name) on Islabard or the New World, then they can eventually become playable maybe (and hopefully SE would actually redo some of the old ARR-SB cutscenes to have NPC's take a slight interest to the new race standing before them), but if they come to Hydaelyn from an optional side-story portal to Tactics Advance or XII's Ivalice... then I'm sorry, but no."