How the AU Ra will "blend" in scenario?

[Riardon]

Playing a bit with the Benchmark I realized something.
How's SE gonna deal with the sudden appearance of the Au Ra in game's scenario?
I mean when you play first time as an Au Ra how's will it be like for Minfilia and team to realize they had an Au Ra with them all along in 2.0 while the Au Ra didn't exist in Eorzea before Yugiri came on ship along with her people?
Will Au Ra start from Ishgard? For the 3 new jobs this makes sense but the new jobs aren't available up until lvl 30. So how will it be like that for the 3 major city states to suddenly have an Au Ra among them? They are not supposed to see uncovered Au Ra's running around.
I suppose as a new Au Ra you will start in Ishgard and then move back to Eorzea for the 2.0 scenario? This confuses me a bit.

[Vydos]

Well, this is something tricky. What you need to take into account, that our characters are adventurers that came from somewhere unknown. So it's not out of the question that an Au Ra adventurer suddenly appears.

However, the entire Yugiri thing during cutscenes does break that. Considering her appearance is supposed to be shocking. At least, that's what Yugiri tells us. And let's face it, nobody seems to ever blink about her tail or her appearance beside our character...

Personally, this could have all been avoided if Yugiri showed her face from the start and introduced herself as an Au Ra. On the opposite side, we live in a world where different kind of races, beastmen and monsters live on the same plain. Seeing a race like the Au Ra with horns shouldn't really be -that- surprising to the average eorzean.

[Burningskull]

Easiest way to handle this would be to pretend as if they had always been there and just have Yugiri remover her mask when she sees other Au Ra around. I don't really remember a scenario where they refer to you by race just man or woman.

[Metabug]

I suppose as a new Au Ra you will start in Ishgard and then move back to Eorzea for the 2.0 scenario? This confuses me a bit.

They will fix it somehow.
Currently I imagine FF scenario as something with one present and multiple possible pasts leading to the same present.
We can consider "present" to be Main Quest's end (2.55 currently, 3.0 in Heavensward).
We already have two possible pasts: 1.x legacy character and 2.0+ character. There is one difference in 2.0 MQ cutscene. With addition of Au'Ra we'll have third possible past: Au'Ra.
Yoshida and co. will just have to tweak MQ and some other quests for new race starting (and only for them). All 3 different pasts will be leading to the same present: 3.0 MQ start or 3.0 MQ end. All new quests implemented in/after 3.0 will be the same for everyone.

[Metabug]

Seeing a race like the Au Ra with horns shouldn't really be -that- surprising to the average eorzean.

If I were average eorzean wood wailer seeing Au'Ra for the first time: "WTH Succubus is doing in here??? Kill it with fire!"

[silentwindfr]

Yugiri appearance is not shocking, it's only some people are uneasy about it, and for avoid this she do hide her face....

if a player Au Ra do the story, when he will meet her, she will probably not hide her face.

[Evangela]

If you're an Au Ra and then see Yugiri's face for the first time, your character will be shocked for seeing people of the same race...

so stupid.

[Bluevann]

Another thing they could do would be to force an unequippable hood on your starting Au Ra character that is removed only upon completing 2.55... With Yugiri it seemed enough for the NPCs to not notice.

[Delsus]

To be honest hiding her face could be the best way to do this, Tataru was surprised to see how beautiful Yugiri was and a kind of "why would you want to hide that beauty from us" Eorzea is a place where diversity is all over from the playable races through to the beastmen, that's why overall we don't mention her hiding her face, as far as we know it could be a tradition of her people (think of the burka in Muslim tradition.) No one is surprised at what Yugiri looks like outside of how beautiful she is.

If for example you saw a Muslim woman wearing a burka, whilst being around others that don't wear it, if she then went to remove it around you, for whatever reason, having seen her all the time with her face covered you would be a bit surprised at what she looked like, for the first time outside of her being Muslim.


I don't think this is really an issue and it can simply be covered by the fact that it's the first time they have seen the face of the person, and not the first time they have seen the race.

[myahele]

I'm guessing they'll treat them similar to the Doman refugees in Rev Toll? If you haven't unlocked that part the story the Domans dont show, but afterwards they do.

Since we have to beat 2.55 to access all these, then I'd imagine a few Au Ra npcs will spring up throughout eorzea after players beat 2.55 Maybe most will be in Ishgard/ mor dhona?

Hopefully they'll be as rare as male miqote