So...Yugiri

[WingsofWar]

I dunno about you guys but my observation leads me to believe its a Viera. Considering Yoshi and Devs are in love with the tactics series, and that many elements of the game are based off tactic lore, and we are hinted that Ivalice is a far away continent.

http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/N...actics_Advance)

"....The Ninja can be seen as a counterpart to the Assassin, a Viera job class."

Tactics Advanced Assasin

Tactics Advanced Ninja

[Kusanagi7]

im going with burmecian from ff9.

[MercuryAcetylene]

She is a Lizard People.

[Takeva]

It's gotta be a Bangaa!!!

[Tiggy]

Why in gods name do people continue to suggest Banga? Her posture makes that impossible. The shortness of her face makes that impossible. She is NOT a Banga. Seriously tails and ears are NOT enough information. Please try looking at more clues than that because by that definition Miqo'te would be Banga. Ridiculous.

If the new race were reptilian in nature, they would have a hard time explaining why you weren't being attacked any time you set foot in Ul'dah, or anywhere in Coerthas for that matter. Both Ul'dah and Ishgard are violently anti-lizard/dragon so making a reptilian playable race would be a hell of a stretch that would either require a whole lot of retconning or just completely ignoring/breaking the game lore.

No they would not. They have issues with DRAGONS not lizards. Even if it was a dragonish like race their war is with a specific set of dragons that live in the same region that they live in. Not with other intelligent creatures just because they happen to be lizard-like. You're taking the Ishgardian situation far beyond the data Square has given us to make some pretty broad assumptions.

[gornotck]

...Mi'qote aren't Bangaa?

[DoubleT]

Her posture makes that impossible. The shortness of her face makes that impossible. She is NOT a Banga. Seriously tails and ears are NOT enough information.

you realize that they would have to completely redesign the appearance of a bangaa race right? so of course the posture an an facial apeearances would be made more pleasing to look at in an mmo. look at female roe's, they dont look anything like their male counterparts almost, because they went with the more pleasing to the eye route. one would assume they would do the same for the new race. the male could be more tough, meaner looking, an the female would be pretty. oh but wait i forgot, you did all the character design an modeling in this game so its "impossible"

[Tiggy]

you realize that they would have to completely redesign the appearance of a bangaa race right? so of course the posture an an facial apeearances would be made more pleasing to look at in an mmo. look at female roe's, they dont look anything like their male counterparts almost, because they went with the more pleasing to the eye route. one would assume they would do the same for the new race. the male could be more tough, meaner looking, an the female would be pretty. oh but wait i forgot, you did all the character design an modeling in this game so its "impossible"

Due to the heavy redesign required they would most definitely no longer be Bangaa, but some entirely different Bangaa inspired race. Not Bangaa as picture what-so-ever.

It's exactly like how Roe's are inspired by Galka's, but they are 100% a different race.

[SirSaber]

I say Bangaa!

Since Bangaas are normally a Male only race Yoshi P managed to keep us on the dark by introducing a Female gender Bangaa.
Because if Yugiri would be of masculine origin and being a lizzard everyone would have noticed right away.

Like this everyone is kept in missbelief about what race Yugiri belongs to.

Also Bangaa > floppy ears !

The only fownside of my speculation is Yugiris feet.
Bangaas have lizzard feet but not Yugiri, either because shes female or maybe Bangaas won't have those lizzard feet because it would be hard for devs to reshape all that armor.

[Kantide]

The theory that Yugiri is Bangaa holds up well due to the following:
She has the lizard like tail and floppy ears.
Roe are basically Galka, but don't have the tails and are proportioned a bit differently, as well as miq'ote being less catlike in the face than their mithra counterparts. This leads me to believe that the Bangaa being brought in could very well have the same creative changes done to make them more visually appealing at least in their female form.
Also, there have been past discussion about how armor works in this game and the body proportions the Bangaa are being given may well be to help facilitate making that process easier since if they had their own proportions the armor/weapons team would have to create a set of armor SPECIFICALLY for them which is extra work.
That's just my 2 cents.