Well, the Ixal are pretty much the same as the Yagudo (they're classed as being birds, even though the Ixal are more monstrous and have lost most of their feathers, are zealously devoted to a goddess, live in a mountainous area - it even has the word 'spine' in it's title - and are antagonistic to FFXIV's version of Windurst, ala, Gridania.). The original 1.0 beastmen races (Ixal, amalj'aa, kobolds), are in fact all based loosely on FFXI beast races. It was only after Yoshi took over that literal FFXI beast races made appearances, like goblins, qi'qirn and mamool'jaa.