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

[Risvertasashi]

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

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

[Kaiser-Ace]

Keep in mind I was born in the early 90s. When I was growing up Robot fiction was already phased out for the Ninja craze where every thing was about the mystical stealth warriors known as Ninjas.

And there are 6 Classical Element, the 4 basing being Earth, Fire, Wind, and Water, The 5th Original Element, Chaos, which was the 4 Base Elements combined, and the 6th Element Aether also referred to occasionally as "the Divine Element" because it was beyond human understanding and did not actually exist in the mortal world (Chaos was the highest power in the mortal plain).

As for Golems, I'm not talking about that specific golem. I'm referring to Golems in general which, Like Homunculi, were Alchemic Constructs that were built for a purpose. the Significance of the particular one you mention is that God specifically granted a soul to a soulless creature as a divine act. But there were others besides that one. It's just the most well known.

[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.

[LineageRazor]

Keep in mind I was born in the early 90s. When I was growing up Robot fiction was already phased out for the Ninja craze where every thing was about the mystical stealth warriors known as Ninjas.

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

[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.