Quote Originally Posted by Johnist View Post
Anyone who has leveled up the SCHOLAR Job knows about how the "Tonberry" Race became Tonberry. Also, anyone who has leveled up WHITE MAGE Job knows about the race (Padjal) that the Elder Seed Seer and the CNJ Guildmaster are (forgot the actual name of the race) but it would be nice to see them added as a Playable Race in the future as well.

Other than those, we have the Garlean Race that could be added to the game.
Unfortunately, the fact itself that those races are involved in those quests makes them not an option for playable races. In the WHM quests for example, the NPCs make quite a big deal of the fact that you are not a Padjal. So how could a player of the Padjal race do those quests? As much as I'd love a child-like race, I gave up my hopes on seeing Padjal accessible the moment I read those quest dialogues.

I'm 99% positive whatever new race we'll get to play will be one that is unaffected by the quests and lore, unless the developers are willing to go back and give unique quest dialogues for those races. That doesn't mean they won't necessarily be cool, though!