By the twelve, how is Ishgard going to handle...

[Bluevann]

i'm still wondering where people are getting this idea.
He was saying it's possible to give player-made Au Ra females an appearance similar to the succubi models, implying more "mature" sexy and less "cute/waifish". He never said they were demonic.

But he did:

With the Au Ra, this includes both female and male, the emphasis during character creation is on the horns. You'll be able to focus heavily on creating the horns. The face structure, for this race, is a little different than what you're currently familiar with. There is a certain direction that isn't really reptilian, but more succubus-like, or demon-like.

When we were considering the options, there were mentions of making female Au Ra more stocky and buff. However the data that's been complied about what race and gender are being used, indicate that Hyur Highlander females and Roegadyn females are not used by very many players. We definitely took that into consideration when finalizing the design of female Au Ra. To reiterate though, there is the option to make her more demon- or succubus-like.

[silentwindfr]

only one thing to add....demon don't have scale on them body.
and the talk was about the customization of the race more than the origine of the race. he did explain how it was possible to create a wide variety of Au Ra depending of your choice. and that they was sure to make different type of horn available, anyway, for come back to the subject.... i think we will have all the answer next tuesday with the 2.55 and the end of the 2.X story.

[Limecat]

i'm still wondering where people are getting this idea.

Fever dreams and people taking an offhand description of ways you can customize your character's look completely out of and beyond context.

[Gunspec]

Au Ra are probably Shiva's offspring with dragons. Female Au Ra will have a horn option that resembles succubi horns. That doesn't make them voidsent. That's like saying a rhinoceros is an insect because it has horns like a certain type of beetle.

[OMEGA_HACK]

Well, Yoshi-P said they are more demon like when he was talking about them. Which would make them more akin to Voidsent.

Also Demons can have scales:

This is Belial a demon from hell, and he would like a word about not being able to have scales.


Also, I thought they were leading that that Shiva and the original Dragon had Dragon offspring as in she gave birth to the other cardinal dragons. (that was my interpretation anyway)

[Mahri]

I can't wait for there to be some Ishgard NPC who gets asked why Au Ra are allowed in town, and they get super-offended and go, "EXCUSE ME, our war is against the DRAVANIANS. Au Ra are just dragon people. We will NOT be referred to as RACISTS. Mind your manners, adventurer. "

[kyuven]

But he did:

Is this taken from the PAX East panel? Because I saw that panel, and after reading that it is JUST talking about making the characters more succubus or demon LIKE. He was using the in-game references we have to indicate a design choice you can make when creating your character. This is likely something lost in translation a little bit, because his original speech said absolutely NOTHING about their origins having anything to do with demons. He said "succubus" in references to facial features. He also says "reptilian." He was assuaging fears that they'd all be lizard-like.
"Can make her more demon-like" in no way has anything to do with their origins. It's the same way you can make Lalafell more "Doll-like," but they weren't born from the union between Raggedy Anne and a human.

[Bluevann]

Is this taken from the PAX East panel?

This was my source, a personal interview to Yoshida from Crunchyroll. I guess it all comes down to whether they lied or not.

http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-fea...-naoki-yoshida

[TheMunimai]

This was my source, a personal interview to Yoshida from Crunchyroll. I guess it all comes down to whether they lied or not.

http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-fea...-naoki-yoshida

He says you can simply make them "Demon or Succubus" Like, not once does he say that they are demons/voidsent just states that you can make them look similar to the existing succubus in the game.

[Imakun]

He says you can simply make them "Demon or Succubus" Like, not once does he say that they are demons/voidsent just states that you can make them look similar to the existing succubus in the game.

This.
Looking like a demon doesn't make one a demon. It's been stated several times that Au'ra are dragonkin (or whatever you want to call them). They are not demon at all.
Yoishi-P said that since the majority of the player base doesn't play female Highlanders or Roegadin they scrapped the idea of making the female Au'ra look like them bulky 'landers and Roes. Instead, they chose to make them more similar to your average japanese game girl, but with the options to add some demon-like features (such as long, curvy sexy horns) to make them look less similar to midlander hyurs. Closest thing we have to that in the game are succubi and demons, because dragons are ugly. That's it.