Garlean Playable Race (?)

[Naaura]

After playing since ARR and now going through Ruby Weapon, I just find Garleans to be so darn cool!

They are taller than Hyur and have such strong Western/Northern European features that I love.


What are your thoughts on them being a playable race? Cons and Pros?

[Sotaris]

We do not need more races. Period. You think Viera and lionboy been successful?

[Mesarthim]

I can almost guarantee you it will not happen in this lifetime.

[MicahZerrshia]

Part of the lore is they are not able to use magic, so they would have to be locked out of any job that can use magic or manipulate aether at all. Which is why I could never happen.

[Naaura]

Part of the lore is they are not able to use magic, so they would have to be locked out of any job that can use magic or manipulate aether at all. Which is why I could never happen.

Oh so thats why they use all that machinery and science!
Then yeah youre right.

Ah well I can dream!

[Theodric]

Part of the lore is they are not able to use magic, so they would have to be locked out of any job that can use magic or manipulate aether at all. Which is why I could never happen.

A common misconception - it's rare for Pureblood Garleans to be able to manipulate aether but not impossible. The player character is, already, the exception to pretty much every established 'rarity' rule within the game's lore.

Though even if the writers wanted to stick strictly to canon, we've seen magitek effectively mimic everything from conjuring familiars to teleportation anyway. It could easily be handwaved in a similar manner to how male viera and raen/xaela were never seen before throughout Eorzea before their inclusion.

[KizuyaKatogami]

We do not need more races. Period. You think Viera and lionboy been successful?

I mean that’s an opinion. Just because the races haven’t been integrated very well, that doesn’t mean we don’t need more. I could see a Garlean race being introduced maybe in 7.0 or 8.0, hopefully after they do a graphics overhaul. A lot of people don’t even seem to know the lore of them in the first place and just say oh they can’t use aether. When as Theodric kindly stated, isn’t entirely true.

[Anhra]

I would prefer it if they would put the effort into creating a new race rather into fixing jobs/the combat system and pvp which need that attention way more.

[Waterscape]

No that will not happen , first they can't use magic , second yoshida already said that they will not had anymore race in the future.

[MikkoAkure]

A common misconception - it's rare for Pureblood Garleans to be able to manipulate aether but not impossible. The player character is, already, the exception to pretty much every established 'rarity' rule within the game's lore.

Though even if the writers wanted to stick strictly to canon, we've seen magitek effectively mimic everything from conjuring familiars to teleportation anyway. It could easily be handwaved in a similar manner to how male viera and raen/xaela were never seen before throughout Eorzea before their inclusion.

Even if you could play a super-duper special snowflake pureblood Garlean who could use magic, there's also the problem of not having your race brought up once in the 80 or whatever hours of story content where the race as a whole is represented as "the enemy", in a land that has been at war with them for 20-some odd years. The main "good guy" Garlean gets passed that and hides his eye from everyone and is a genetic freak who is a head shorter than other Garleans with different proportions.

Handwaving au ra is one thing, but handwaving you playing as the race that up until the 2nd expansion is only ever represented as the villains trying to destroy the world and cannot use aether normally, as the hero in Eorzea where every single jobs' abilities are described as aetherial manipulation is a pretty big handwave. And that's not taking into account all the technical limitations and the fact we're never getting another race again.