A concept for a new playable-race, with lore and feasability considerations

[Risvertasashi]

So, here's a question to those arguing about souls/echo:

Suppose an Eorzean were critically, catastrophically injured... and required a full body prosthetic. Perhaps the Goldsmiths guild comes up with something, or maybe Cid & his Ironworks engineers do it (possibly with some reverse-engineered Allagan tech?), but one way or another someone pulls it off.

Do they still have a soul? Can they have the Echo, particularly if they had it before?

Please answer before revealing:

Ultimately though, the Lore team will write whatever they want. If they were to add a synthetic race that's playable, they could always say that they had some sort of Human/Hyur/other organic basis before conversion, or had somehow been touched by the light of the crystal, or any number of other things.

I do agree we're unlikely to ever see it, but simply because most players wouldn't care or wouldn't want it... not because of lore. My 2 gil anyways.

[Kaiser-Ace]

So, here's a question to those arguing about souls/echo:

Suppose an Eorzean were critically, catastrophically injured... and required a full body prosthetic. Perhaps the Goldsmiths guild comes up with something, or maybe Cid & his Ironworks engineers do it (possibly with some reverse-engineered Allagan tech?), but one way or another someone pulls it off.

Do they still have a soul? Can they have the Echo, particularly if they had it before?

Please answer before revealing:

Ultimately though, the Lore team will write whatever they want. If they were to add a synthetic race that's playable, they could always say that they had some sort of Human/Hyur/other organic basis before conversion, or had somehow been touched by the light of the crystal, or any number of other things.

I do agree we're unlikely to ever see it, but simply because most players wouldn't care or wouldn't want it... not because of lore. My 2 gil anyways.

This is an interesting and valid question.

Since Echo Wielders' souls are effectively immortal despite their mortal corporeal body, Which is apparently a normal echo power to an enlightened user since the Ascians taught a Sahagan Echo User how to move his soul to a new vessel as well, then I believe that you could indeed move your soul via echo to a Mechanical Vessel made out of similar Aether Channeling Magitek that the Garlands use and still retain the echo.

How well this would work how ever is open to debate, specifically this one, and completely subject to writer's privilege on how it'd operate.

An Alraune or Dryad race would also be acceptable.

This could actually add a whole new possibility to adding Geomancer to the game in a future expansion. After all, who better to wield earth magic than a Plant Person.

[Risvertasashi]

After all, who better to wield earth magic than a Plant Person.

The snarky answer? ....Conjurers ~.^

[Kaiser-Ace]

The snarky answer? ....Conjurers ~.^

Oh oh!! IDEA!!

Geomance can be a 2nd Advanced Job for Conjurers like Scholar was to Arcanist!!!

Maybe be a DPS class to mirror how Arcanist turned from DPS to Healer. While were at it, lets give lancers the "Dragon Knight" Job to parallel with Dragoon as a Tank Job.

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Robots and cyborgs as playable characters.....oh wait, I remember now! I don't think the reception went well

[Kaiser-Ace]

Pff. Don't be ridiculous. Ninjas can't have souls! That's just silly.

On coures Ninjas don't have souls!!

How else do they do all that dark magic, shadow,elemental stuff. They're Witches! Burn the Witch!!

[Ghastly]

I pray to Thal that the next race is Viera. So much of FFXIV is taken in some part from FFXII. From some of the mob designs to the empire (Archadians/Garleans), to stuff like magicite.
Moreover, they already created concepts for FFXII Viera, and they won the race poll. It's feasable with lore since they can put them in the same location that Miqo'te come from. It would make a lot of sense since they're both half-beast and from the woods.

Who doesn't want the new expansion moogles to be these?

[Frigidchick]

I want Viera. I don't care about where they fit into the lore of FFXIV. I don't care about how they'd have to explain a male Viera. I just want bunny people.

[IrisBlanchimont]

I would really not expect to see a race from another FF series, re: Viera. As for automata, I like the idea but I feel like it would be too hard to really explain how not unusual they are. Consider how the Godlsmiths, or the Sons of Saint Coinach, or even the Garleans would love to get their hands on tech that functional from the days of Allag.