Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
Rather than create a new thread, I'm going to give this a gentle nudge since there's new lore brought to light that further adds weight to the idea of a playable Garlean Pureblood in the form of the Reaper job for Endwalker.
That still doesn’t counter my opinions against the race. I never said that it was just the lore holding them back from being playable. The lore can be whatever. But Garleans are still the main villains through most of the game and there’s no reasonable way to play one in the MSQ without pretending that everything is OK because you’re special and a WoL, even before you’re outed as one at the end of ARR, so no one would want to hurt you.

Then there’s the fact that a race that can be completely replicated by added a head item to the game is not an interesting race to play. If you want to play a Garlean for RP reasons, there’s nothing stopping you from just saying you’re a Garlean to other RPers.

Besides all that, during the live letter they said if they added a new race again, it would be lizardmen. But they finished that statement by saying they don’t even want to think about new races anymore.