So...Yugiri

[LineageRazor]

Having now watched most of the cutscenes involving Yugiri, I came to a dreadful epiphany. WHATEVER race Yugiri is, it will most likely never be a playable race.

Yugiri makes a big deal out of the fact that she covers up so that the people of Ul'dah won't be shocked by her appearance. If you, the player, are walking around uncovered in Ul'dah, speaking with her in cutscenes, and are the same race that she is, those cutscenes will make no bloody sense at all.

There are ways to get around this, I suppose; Yugiri could be hideously mutilated or something, so she's not trying to cover up her race, but rather her shocking injuries. Even so, I think this indicates bad news for folks hoping to get a sixth race to play as.

[Synapse]

Gonna be disappointed if she is a Mi'qote.. unless she is a miqote and Dev dont wanna let players down so they invent a new race... anyway...

As far from i can tell, Yuigiri's martial arts knowledge screams Neeeenja or Teeef.

[Merle]

Also notice she shares Miqote animations. It's most likely going to be a Gria and hearing how Ishgard is on a kill anything dragon related crusade, it wouldn't be shocking if she had wings hidden somewhere.

Don't trust animations, it's just a way to save "resources". Nael van Darnus had Elezen animations and he wasn't an Elezen

[Pandastirfry]

Having now watched most of the cutscenes involving Yugiri, I came to a dreadful epiphany. WHATEVER race Yugiri is, it will most likely never be a playable race.

Yugiri makes a big deal out of the fact that she covers up so that the people of Ul'dah won't be shocked by her appearance. If you, the player, are walking around uncovered in Ul'dah, speaking with her in cutscenes, and are the same race that she is, those cutscenes will make no bloody sense at all.

There are ways to get around this, I suppose; Yugiri could be hideously mutilated or something, so she's not trying to cover up her race, but rather her shocking injuries. Even so, I think this indicates bad news for folks hoping to get a sixth race to play as.

While I agree this will cause a lore issue if they are later made playable. but if you take some of her dialog into account, it sets it up as pretty obvious they're going to become playable. Particularly, the statements of "Willing to work as tradesmen or soldiers" and the willingness to, in the Ul'Dah bit, allow only a handful of the refugees to reside in Ul'dah if that will allow at least those to get off the boats she is actively with, and find somewhere else for the rest of them to go... Sounds like us Adventurers to me, willing to work as tradesmen or soldiers, and the races aren't locked to particular city-states.

Also the "unwillingness to reveal her face, because people fear the unfamiliar" could hint that when the race is made playable (say in an expansion) that the story may have moved a few years down the road where now Domans are more integrated into the 3 city-states society and are less unfamiliar, and SE may pull a "Cataclysm" like expansion where even low-level content and main story is changed forever to reflect this move forward in the timeline... It's also a way to build anticipation for the final reveal of what she actually looks like. (which may still be "in development" as a truly finalized model may not yet be complete...which may be why she shares animations with miqo'te as that may be the closest they have implemented, before their actual animations are truly finalized for the male and female models)

but I might just be over thinking things

[Gilraen]

Gonna be disappointed if she is a Mi'qote.. unless she is a miqote and Dev dont wanna let players down so they invent a new race... anyway...

As far from i can tell, Yuigiri's martial arts knowledge screams Neeeenja or Teeef.

Actually Yugiri also used magic so clearly Ninja. Thancred, though, is verily the t/Thief. The / is there because it's uncertain if it's a class or job right now, but what IS certain is that it's going to be Limsa Lominsa's missing melee DD.

[Tiggy]

It isn't at all clear that Thancred is a thief. Rogues and thieves are very similar, but nothing he did was explicitly thief only. Not one single thing. Being roguish does not instantly make you a thief. Also, anyone thinking thief might be the class is going to be sorely mistaken. Not a single other class has a name that is traditionally a FF job. Why would thief break that mold? Thief most likely going to be the alternate job to ninja with both coming from a base rogue/ruffian/scoundrel class.

[Nicnevin]

Yugiri's tail looks much more like a coeurl's than a Burmecian's to me...

[Yoohre_WildRiver]

she could be an amalj'aa + hyur hybrid.

reptilian tale
and "makes a big deal out of the fact that she covers up so that the people of Ul'dah won't be shocked by her appearance."
what beast tribes is uldahs enemy beast tribe?? amalj'aa

boom mind...blown

[Tupsi]

she could be an amalj'aa + hyur hybrid.

reptilian tale
and "makes a big deal out of the fact that she covers up so that the people of Ul'dah won't be shocked by her appearance."
what beast tribes is uldahs enemy beast tribe?? amalj'aa

boom mind...blown

That'd be pretty interesting if the Amaljaa even exists outside of Eorzea to begin with since we know the actual outside reptilian race is the Mamool Ja.

[Yoohre_WildRiver]

That'd be pretty interesting if the Amaljaa even exists outside of Eorzea to begin with since we know the actual outside reptilian race is the Mamool Ja.

Mamool ja hybrid could work too! since magic casting mamool jas are light in color (white/bluish)