So...Yugiri

[Gilraen]

You know... for all we know that could just be armor. Remember how people cried at the darklight/darksteel/heavy plate armors losing their Miqo'te tail armor?

[Demetirus]

Eh, I wouldn't be opposed to something other Viera, but I'd be lying if I said that I wouldn't feel a bit let down. No one to blame for that but myself, though! :3

[LineageRazor]

Unlikely, because then it would be x race found from some other MMORPG or offline RPG series which means it's not "new" at all because FF has a few reptilian races and even a draconian race, so why wouldn't they just use them?

When FFXI came out, it featured three races never before seen in FFXI lore: Galka, Tarutaru, and Mithra (though it could be argued that there's a resemblence between Tarutaru and other "little people" races in FFXI lore). I don't count Hume or Elvaan, as they're basically just a rename of humans and elves, found in nearly all other FF games.

I was disappointed to learn that FFXIV was just rehashing the FFXI races, when I was hoping they'd be featuring something new. They have a chance to do this now. Yugiri MIGHT represent a known FF race, or she might be something totally new. It's too soon to tell, but I kind of hope for the latter.

[WendyDarling]

Eh, I wouldn't be opposed to something other Viera, but I'd be lying if I said that I wouldn't feel a bit let down. No one to blame for that but myself, though! :3

yeah, pretty much my feelings on the subject. i was reallllly hoping Viera would make it lol.

[necrosis]

Its a lala standing on the shoulders of another lala.

[Vanguard319]

I'm gonna say dragon race, like the Gria, but without wings. It would explain the hood, (after all, who's to say Ishgarde and it's ongoing holy war against everything and anything scaly, wouldn't add her to the list of things needing to be killed?), second, she's from the far east, so the dragon motif seem to work well. Now I'm curious to what she looks like under the hood.

[Haeresis]

Its a lala standing on the shoulders of another lala.

For that size is needed 3 lalas!


In the truth, she is a half dragon!1!!

At first time I thought she had horns, but in the cutscenes u can see that moves, for me seems more like big ears.

[ceiimq]

So, Yugiri :

• she has a fairly long tail that could be reptilian, or maybe rat-like,
• her feet's shape is human-like (you can tell through the boots),
• her face's makeup is human-like, it's easy to see in closeups when she speaks,
• the things on her head move around so they're probably ears.

I can't think of a race will all these traits in the FF multiverse, so I'm still leaning toward Viera with a funny tail. This would also work quite well with her voice, at least in the Japanese dub. It's the same kind of deeper, calm voice they've always given to Vieras.

[silentwindfr]

all we can say it's we don't know more than before... they are good! really good!!
i'm sure Yoshida and him team must laughs at all our idea about what she is.

however, she did say something that make me wonder. she did say: "she hide herself, because her race is often misunderstood."
viera will look nice and all, then they are out.
repitlian because of the tail... maybe, but how explain the base of the tail.
mouse type? no, the tail of a mouse is not like this.
a gria without wing? maybe can be a good idea, but why hide her face, grias face are human like, same why hide her hand?

[Rissy]

It's not a Viera/Bangaa/Gria/Burmecian in the same way that FFXIV doesn't have Galka/Mithra/Tarutaru/Hume/Elvaan.