Quote Originally Posted by Enkidoh View Post
Padjal will never be playable simply due to their lore... They then become effectively a servant of the forest and thus have little to no freedom to how they live their lives... Thus a padjal could never be an adventurer - adventurers come and go as they will and thus if a padjal tried to do just that. the forest would literally spirit them away back to the Shroud. So yeah, padjal would never be a possible player race I'm afraid.
Whilst I completely agree it will never be a playable race, I got the opinion from the White Mage quest line that the Padjali aspire to be a little more like A-Towa-Cant, who very deliberately travelled the world (or at least, Eorzea). He wasn't an adventurer, but he definitely had adventures!