Mount Suggestion: Horse

[Rawkzillah]

You are correct. It is about Ala Mhigo, but it did open the world of Othard to us. And while the in-game shows a lot of falcons and yol (which they had to do since they couldn't do the black chocobos like they did for HW since Othard doesn't have chocobos), I believe it was Yugiri was the one that introduced us to the fact that even among the Doma, horses were the mount of choice. There are xaela tribes whom revolve around them. Yet there is not one practical in-game mount to reflect this. If you wish to request other types of chocobo, be my guest. I'll endorse and support you in it. But I ask again... why make a point of having auri characters puzzle over the smell and appearance of our "strange horsebirds"... base them off of the mongolian culture that is all about horsemanship and falconry (which is why they chose falcons for the taxi mounts)... and then leave it as unobtainable for auri characters to actually -have- a horse?

[Enkidoh]

You are correct. It is about Ala Mhigo, but it did open the world of Othard to us. And while the in-game shows a lot of falcons and yol (which they had to do since they couldn't do the black chocobos like they did for HW since Othard doesn't have chocobos), I believe it was Yugiri was the one that introduced us to the fact that even among the Doma, horses were the mount of choice. There are xaela tribes whom revolve around them. Yet there is not one practical in-game mount to reflect this. If you wish to request other types of chocobo, be my guest. I'll endorse and support you in it. But I ask again... why make a point of having auri characters puzzle over the smell and appearance of our "strange horsebirds"... base them off of the mongolian culture that is all about horsemanship and falconry (which is why they chose falcons for the taxi mounts)... and then leave it as unobtainable for auri characters to actually -have- a horse?

Because the whole 'horses come from Othard' thing was written into the lore long before there was even ever any intention of actually journeying to Othard. Othard was simply 'the Far East' where they could use as a handwave to the origin of things that really did not fit the more Western-influenced Eorzea, specifically things of Asian origin (and on the specific point of Othardians calling chocobos 'horsebirds', that is actually an injoke towards an unfortunate meta incident in the original version of FFXIV, where an early beta translation of FFXIV 1.0 into Chinese rendered chocobo as "horsebird", becoming an extended meme by players and the gaming press to mock 1.0, by using it as a symbol reflective of 1.0's troubled development, and from there the current development team included it in ARR and beyond as a light-hearted jab at the problems that plagued ARR's predecessor).

Same goes for the au ra and some of their tribes favouring horses, given they were introduced in Heavensward again before Othard had been considered to be actually visited and thus their lore was worked out beforehand, it was simply a narrative device used to show that they're 'different' to Eorzeans. Again I'm not trying to mock your idea, my point is that there has been a little too much emphasis on horses in the game and that SE should maybe bring chocobos back into importance again.. but that is just my opinion.