Au Ra physiology and other lore.

[Kaiser-Ace]

That was just the first word I thought of that matches the "Ow" sound found in Au Ra, lol.

So the "ra" in Au Ra is pronounced like Ra the Egyptian God but Au Ra as a whole is pronounced as one word rather than two, thus Ow-Ra vs Ow(Space) Ra.

[treuhavik]

So the "ra" in Au Ra is pronounced like Ra the Egyptian God but Au Ra as a whole is pronounced as one word rather than two, thus Ow-Ra vs Ow(Space) Ra.

That's my understanding. "OwwRah!" - like you're barking back immediately after saying "Ow". "Au Ra" possesses a hard R, therefore it sounds allllmost like two words. The spacing is meant to help distinguish that difference in pronunciation. Saying the R too soft would make it sound like "aura" and with out the space it would be written "aura" - confusion on two fronts.

[Alice_89th]

That was just the first word I thought of that matches the "Ow" sound found in Au Ra, lol.

How... how does that match the "Ow" sound?! It is clearly an "Au" sound! xD

(it... it sounds exactly like it is written to me.....I never would have thought to pronounce 'Audi" in any other way either... I KNOW different languages pronounce things differently, even pointed it out a few posts earlier, but it never ceases to amaze me whenever differences pop up)

[Kaiser-Ace]

How... how does that match the "Ow" sound?! It is clearly an "Au" sound! xD

(it... it sounds exactly like it is written to me.....I never would have thought to pronounce 'Audi" in any other way either... I KNOW different languages pronounce things differently, even pointed it out a few posts earlier, but it never ceases to amaze me whenever differences pop up)

Au and Ow are the same phonetic syllable in English. The main difference would be between the European English, American South East, and American North East dialects. Even then it would only sound slightly different.

[Wildsprite]

for various reasons, it is extremely likely that the main body of the Dravanian Horde is composed in significant part of Au Ra, and that the dark-scaled Au Ra are in fact going to be the "Dravanian" clan. So it's very possible we'll see at least one during 2.5 part 1, and definitely during 2.5 part 2 with the siege of Ishgard.

seems to me that

for some reason people keep overlooking the fact that the devs( think it was Yoshi-P himself that said it) have stated specifically the Au Ra will have no relation to the Dravanian Horde.

[QuietGlasses]

The Devs have said no such thing.

[PArcher]

seems to me that

for some reason people keep overlooking the fact that the devs( think it was Yoshi-P himself that said it) have stated specifically the Au Ra will have no relation to the Dravanian Horde.

Source? Ive never heard of that

[Wildsprite]

The Devs have said no such thing.

yeah they did. it could have been misinterperated but they did say it.

Source? Ive never heard of that

they did during one of the fan festivals. when they went into the information about the race. I think it was the Vegas one but it could have been the London one. they made it clear that the Au Ra could not be of any relation to Shiva.

would be nice if one of the community team would speak up about this. I know what they said but I can't find any standard def videos remaining of the las vegas fan festival other than the letter from the producer live.

[Reinhart]

I checked the Keynote of the LA stream and all they mentioned was that a new race was coming and that it wasn't the Viangaa. They didn't actually reveal the new Au Ra race until the Tokyo one in December.

[Wildsprite]

I checked the Keynote of the LA stream and all they mentioned was that a new race was coming and that it wasn't the Viangaa. They didn't actually reveal the new Au Ra race until the Tokyo one in December.

no but they did give clues about the new race during both of the fan festival events before Tokyo.