Au Ra character creation pictures from Nico Nico!

[Duelle]

Okay, that's it. I demand that SE reimplement path companions. Mine has to look like this.

My point wasn't that beastial races will drive people away but such a race is a high risk to resources. I don't expect SE to be taking risks at the moment. 1.0 isn't that long ago. They are going to play it safe until they feel comfortable that what they have is secure enough to play with risk. Making a new race that in the end aren't played by many people isn't going to be a good investment and in the end games are products for businesses. They need to produce products people actually are going to use.

As much as I panned 1.0 for being the weird thing that it was, aesthetics don't have much of anything to do with why the risks taken with 1.0 caused it to flop (among other things, like that game being horribly incomplete). The point of races is that there's supposed to be some sort of diversity. The current 5 races cover the basics (and even then miqo'te have rubbed people the wrong way due to their being more human-like than FFXI's mithra).

As pretty as they are, Au ra are really just normal-sized humans with cosplay parts glued on to their bodies with the option of full body paint. It's not gonna sink the game in any way, but it displays a limit self-imposed by the developers.

To be honest the other reason is probably that creating a new race that matches what we see in the concept art probably would have taken a lot more work than the Au Ra did. Those clawed hands, for example, would take a lot more customisation of current armour designs to accommodate for.

The clawed hands would simply mean certain gloves wouldn't fully cover their hands (sort of how trolls in WoW have bare feet regardless of footwear; a rule that also applies to tauren, draenei and pandaren).

[Gilraen]

Great, now we're going to get 'those' kinds of characters, too.

[SaitoHajime]

that last picture of the au ra male with red eye is what im going to be going for, not that exact look tho

[Frederick22]

They dont have ears? Who do they are able to hear? o.o

[Saseal]

They dont have ears? Who do they are able to hear? o.o

hmm, maybe like birds do - ear holes but they're just covered o.oa

that last picture of the au ra male with red eye is what im going to be going for, not that exact look tho

Same here, with red hair for my Au Ra - I wanted that hair-style for him ever since I saw the concept art (I was really hoping they'd put it in as an option! xD)

[lololink]

hmm, maybe like birds do - ear holes but they're just covered o.oa

They hear with their horns.

[Saseal]

They hear with their horns.

Its explained on their lore page on the main site. :x

o.o *re-reads lore* *Goldfish memory*

[Iromi]

o.o *re-reads lore* *Goldfish memory*

Haha you and me both

I am so curious to see where they will place the earrings on the Au Ra!

And as for red hair..omg I really hope we get a nice, bright red shade for the hair ^^

[Kaela]

They hear with their horns.

Which brings another good question o.o ear accessories.... if they go through the horn or what?

[Aryalandi]

Which brings another good question o.o ear accessories.... if they go through the horn or what?

I am going to guess they will wear them around their horns like some of the accessories that were shown in the pics.. so like a ring for their horns~