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Rawr!
Probably still too early for lots of people to have made things public knowledge, but I can share the White Mage details. Spoiler tags for the sensitive, au naturale.

You fight a Zombie Dragon, essentially a downscaled version of the Bone Dragon from the Labyrinth of the Ancients with the help of Raya-O-Senna, A-Ruhn-Senna and Eschiva. At the same time, you're purifying corrupted aether, which causes the Zombie Dragon to rise over and over again until the corrupted aether is gone.

The reason for this fight is that the antagonist Alaqa, an Au Ra woman (girl?) has been creating sources of twisted and corrupted aether to sustain her creation, because the Zombie Dragon is incapable of functioning without it. Tired and terrified of multiple acts of racism (going as far as physical violence and other 'unspeakable' things), she decided to take vengeance on the people of Eorzea by creating the Zombie Dragon and corrupted aether everywhere so that her creation could murder kill all of Eorzea.

After you defeat the Zombie Dragon and cleanse the corrupted aether sustaining its immortality, she loses all will to continue her vengeance and is taken into custody by the Wood Wailers, with some encouraging (or perhaps cynical, stupid humans being mean to the foreign!) words from Raya-O-Senna. A-Ruhn-Senna also decides to travel the world like A-Towa-Cant did before him, having been inspired by the player's acts of bringing succor and solace to whichever corner of the world needs it, rather than being restricted to the Twelveswood.


That's essentially it. Fairly standard as well-intentioned extremist stories go, but it does shed more light on the Au Ra (or just Xaela, Alaqa's wording is very vague, simply referring to her 'people' suffering racism), apparently having suffered their fair share of racism in Eorzea. Perhaps Yugiri wasn't too dumb to wear a mask.