Confusing Fact about the Races/Spoken

[Strongfat900]

Well, remember that there aren't actual distinctions between the 'spoken' races and 'beast' races, it's 100% arbitrary and fueled by social desire to designate a 'lesser' class of people. In fact, remember that in the First the Amal'jaa equivalents were treated equally and it was the lalafel equivalents that were treated as 'the beast tribe'.

But I do think that it's entirely possible that there were people who, when trying to define this new form for themselves, landed on one that they had some memory of rather than completely out of whole cloth. I mean, if you decide you wanna be a wolfman, and you remember seeing a wolfman before, your resulting image is probably gonna resemble that wolfman you saw.

Basically, all of the Sapient races of FFXIV evolved from the Ancients? Honestly, that's pretty fascinating if you ask me.

[Cleretic]

Basically, all of the Sapient races of FFXIV evolved from the Ancients? Honestly, that's pretty fascinating if you ask me.

I mean, that's already mostly true; either they created them as concepts or they evolved into them afterwards. There's some rare exceptions where we have either an extraterrestrial origin point (dragons) or a post-Sundering society creating them (the Ixal, as well as whatever else the Allagans made), but in almost all cases, yeah, if we see a living thing an Ancient did that.

I was going to give voidsent and Sin Eaters as exceptions because they're more consequences of natural phenomena, but... no, Ancients were also responsible for those! Very specific Ancients, in fact!