Lupin - make it a playable race!

[Alleo]

Says who? You? The devs? The game? Seeing as there are Au Ra other than the WoL within Eorzean borders, some of probably having been in Eorzea longer then the WoL, I don't see why Viera would be something never seen before.

And yet Ishgard killed Sids parents in the past simply because they are Au Ra and Yugiri hid her face because she was one. Yet this was completely ignored in the story if you are an Au Ra yourself. You get no different kind of dialogue. The same if you are that one elezen race and start in Gridania. That is kinda bending the story to fit in the WoL and to not have to write different dialogue.

Well they already introduced one Lupin character in Gridania in one of the seasonal events. Which can be done by a low level either. So people did not need to be in Doma to see them first. Yes people first thought that this was just a costume but what will stop SE to just handwave it with a "after that more Lupins came and people started to at least trust them a bit". I mean they do that with other beast tribes that at least run around Limsa. Also lets not forget that one NPC in Eureka is a Lupin too, so they seems to have been at least in Sharlyan.

In the end if SE wants to introduce them they will find a way, even if it just bends the story a bit.

And Lupins are also still humanoid. They even wear the same clothes as the Domans and the only thing that stands out between them and other races is their head. They are probably the least beastly from all the beast tribes we have and seemingly even Garlemald does not count them as pure beast tribes otherwise they would not let them fight on their side. In the end they could justifiy them simply by telling us that more Lupins have traveled the world and that Sharlyan who has at least one of them, wrote about them as a none beast tribe. Exactly how they would do Viera. Just say that they always were there but that we could not see them and somehow the people are already fine with them, even though the story would only really makes sense after maybe the new 24 man raid. In the same way Lupins (after the event, which is now in the past and done) could have simply came to Eorzea and people got used to it but the WoL just did not see them before.

I fully agree with Rysir. We try to make sense for them in lore while the lore itself never cares what race or gender you are. Heck I have changed in my game from kitten, to Lala to Au Ra and never once did they comment on this. This game is really big in ignoring race and every baggage that normally comes with this.

@Trixie_Strider:

Well if having the same changeable customizations than other races (tail, ears, face, color) is lacking, what exactly will Viera bring to the table? If they are those Viera that people want (like Fran) then you might decide the ears, tail, lenght of it (but not much, at least for the tail) and what then? And I agree that most people will choose the other races but again if we only see the amount of numbers that people play them as a reason to bring them in, shouldnt we delete certain races from the game and woulndt that mean that we never need another race because we are just moving numbers around? Arent different races here to create diversity?