What if the Devs added another "Clan" for each Race?

[Hysterior]

And everybody would need to buy a Fantasia. That could cover development costs.

[lolicon09]

Personally, I would love to have a Miqo'te with Seeker skin colors and Keeper eyes & fangs. If Hyurs will be the only race with actual differences between clans, then all other races should've the ability to choose between the stuff available for both clans

[SomeRandomHuman]

Personally, I would love to have a Miqo'te with Seeker skin colors and Keeper eyes & fangs. If Hyurs will be the only race with actual differences between clans, then all other races should've the ability to choose between the stuff available for both clans

I'd like the flipside. Keeper skin colors with seeker eyes

[Roda]

I'd like the flipside. Keeper skin colors with seeker eyes

I always thought it was weird that seekers' eyes were permanently contracted, while keepers' were always dialated.
(Also it makes no sense biologically since seekers mainly live in flat areas, where as keepers are shoved into "somewhere in the shroud" which has a lot of vertacality. So vertical pupils would've made more sense on keepers since they're said to help with vertical FoV. But if fixing that were to trade my fangs for eye slits, no deal!)

[SomeRandomHuman]

I always thought it was weird that seekers' eyes were permanently contracted, while keepers' were always dialated.
(Also it makes no sense biologically since seekers mainly live in flat areas, where as keepers are shoved into "somewhere in the shroud" which has a lot of vertacality. So vertical pupils would've made more sense on keepers since they're said to help with vertical FoV. But if fixing that were to trade my fangs for eye slits, no deal!)

I understand why they did what they did. Their pupils contract in the day and widen at night all for the purpose of better vision and given that seekers are generally diurnal and keepers nocturnal or in poorly lit terrain. Both tribes should have the fangs and I just think their eyes should automatically switch between contracted and dilated with in-game time. Like 6-18 eorzea time is contracted and vice versa for dilated. It would just work like the day/night music for zones.

[Gula]

Just give me concept art fem au ra and I will be so happy. Doll face derp eyes were a mistake.

There's tons of unknown tribes, I'm sure they're around.

[MsQi]

Personally, I would love to have a Miqo'te with Seeker skin colors and Keeper eyes & fangs. If Hyurs will be the only race with actual differences between clans, then all other races should've the ability to choose between the stuff available for both clans

Having clan "crossbreeds" seems more likely than racial ones, at least technically. It would be nice to be able to choose from all the features of a particular race and then have the game give you a lineage (e.g.: 20% sun/80% moon) based on your choices, for RP reasons.

[Terin]

I like it, but I think for some races they'd really have to stretch to come up with new clans so I'd rather just see the character creator expanded. Unless they were okay with only doing extra ones for the races where it makes sense.

I would honestly be okay with that. And really, I don't think it's like anyone here is DEMANDING new Clans anyways -- it's just kind of a fun idea!

As others said, it would surely be less work than adding entirely new races (though not to say it isn't still a lot of work). But it could absolutely be a cool way of fleshing out some new cultures, adding some new cosmetic elements and the like.

Like I said, for me the biggest thing would just be that it would be great to have unique "basic animations" (standing, walking, running, and sprinting) for each Clan. Doesn't have to be dramatic, just enough to give them a touch of personality. I honestly kind of hate the way the Au Ra males stand, so prim and proper, which feels strange for a member of the Xaela. But hey, they could reserve that sort of thing purely for the NEW clans, whatever they might be, whenever they might be.

Also, anyone else have any other ideas for potential Clans?

Something I thought could be cool for Roegadyns, is maybe a sort of "Tengu/Oni" clan, based loosely on Japanese folklore (obvious ties to Gosetsu), but in addition to more "human" skin tones, maybe either bright-red skin tones?

[Terin]

Just give me concept art fem au ra and I will be so happy. Doll face derp eyes were a mistake.

There's tons of unknown tribes, I'm sure they're around.

Honestly, that is VERY MUCH in-line with the sort of vibe I would go for with a "third tribe"!

I mean, if we could go back in time, I actually think female Xaela (Cirina notwithstanding) should've been based on that concept art, whilst Raen females could be the current type.

But much as I support touching up and even making minor changes to existing races, I fear that would be just a BIT too extreme of an update for existing female Au Ra. Better, I think, to have a third Au Ra clan whose females are free to go for much more of an "evil seductress/warmonger" vibe. In fact, a funny spin would be if the males of this clan were actually the shorter gender (or at least, splitting the difference, where males and females of this clan are roughly similar height).

Speaking of; whenever they DO add Male Viera (I honestly do think it's coming at some point), I'm personally kind of hoping that instead of making a male equivalent of the "tall, amazonian women", they might just make them much more slight of stature, more akin to a teenage boy. Either that, or maybe instead of bunny ears (if they ARE tall, handsome-looking men), maybe they would have antlers instead of ears? You could technically say it's a riff on the idea of a "jackalope", but I just kind of love the idea of a tall, muscular dude with proud-looking antlers. Almost a "spirit of the wild" type of vibe.

As for female Hrothgar... honestly not sure. Maybe instead of trying to make them "sexy" or "give them boobs", maybe they could just have slightly more slender frames, but be MORE savage-looking/less-friendly than the males?

[ElciaDeiLinus]

It's pretty dangerous adding a hunch to anything, especially an involuntary one- when they gave the no hunch option to several races in WoW it basically was the death knell of the hunch they all but completely vanished. And while people begged and complained for the hunch to end for all its races that had one for years, it's quite telling that there was basically never anyone asking for a hunch to be added to any races without one.

Not saying noone likes it, but without it being completely voluntary on a current clan, or on an entirely new one, I'd expect it to be harshly rejected.