Humanoid Avian Race?

[Vurtney]

And besides that, this is FFXIV, I don't know or care what happens in WoW.

Humanoid races are always the most played races, that's a fact but implying there would be no demograph for non-human races is nonsense. You can feel what you want about Warcraft but it's a good example of race variety and its player base playing them for years now.

http://www.warcraftrealms.com/census.php

When it comes to rigging new models, texture mapping, weighting new gear models on characters and what have you, i'm sure they (SE) can handle a less traditional race than what we have now.