Quote Originally Posted by Astralia View Post
I think we'll definitely have a lorebook 3.

Concerning Raen yeah, it's not even weird to think they spread quite everywhere except Eorzea since their exodus from the steppes though you can as well imagine other events like abductions for forced enlisting in the Garlemald's Army as well.
Though in the case of Sui-no-Sato, as for Yugiri and other npc mentioned here and there I think, you're forbidden to go back to Sui if you leave !
I think why the au ra were generally stuck in Eastern Othard is due to the fact they're penned in from the Burn, Dalmasca's deserts, and the Golmore Jungle. It's quite a hefty barrier to normal migration. Any au ra outside of that seems to be part of the big push of refugees caused by the more recent fighting that is literally everywhere now. But all we really have to go on is Sidurgu's story and a small mention from an NPC that au ra have been showing up "over the years" whatever that is supposed to mean. I feel like it was left vague on purpose for them to fill in blanks later.

But not every race spreads out like the hyur do either. The hyur are an outlier and shouldn't be representative of other races. The hyur are found on every single continent in the game, not just the 3 great continents. The other races are much more limited in how far they've migrated.

As far as Sui no Sato goes, I've seen a lot of people get the misconception that all raen are from Sui no Sato, but 99.99% of raen don't even know it exists and they're a completely separate clan that went a different way than the others. The rest of the raen also aren't a peaceful people.