Quote Originally Posted by LineageRazor View Post
There's three big reasons SE is reluctant to do this, some of which have been covered thoroughly in this thread:
- LORE: A huge part of this game is the conflict between the Human races and the Beast races. The player storyline has them pretty thoroughly entrenched as a Human member of this conflict. If a bestial race was added, they'd either need to retool the storyline, or explain why this new race is somehow considered to be a Human race, in spite of the fact that they look no more human than the Amal'ja.
Isn't this just an Eorzea and possibly Garlean thing? So far we've yet to see this be an issue again. The Beast Tribes in HW have half and half with both peace and conflict, Ala Mhigo seems to have only the Qalyana and they're a minority, and the Doman beast tribes seem to have no issues whatsoever on the whole until Garlemald messed up the Red Kojin and the Lupin. Everyone seems to come and go as they please in Kugane and the Lupin have seemingly completely integrated with the local Hyuran population.