Humanoid Avian Race?

[Nektulos-Tuor]

While an avian race would be really awesome, some restrictions to keep in mind:
1) The race will be mainly humanoid, so no you won't get bird legs or taloned feet for simplicity in adjusting gear between races.
2) The race would NOT have large wings, these would be hard to model around and would indicate actual ability to fly - not something that they'd want to insinuate because flying is high level zones only and mount-based. Even if the new race COULD fly, they'd be restricted to Aether currents though and there would be irritation that the new race can fly without a mount and they'd want to too.

That being said, there are options to be more avian while being mainly human that would be unique and interesting, such as:

Feathered Eyelashes:


Feathered Ears:

Feathered accents on wrists or ankles:


MAYBE Small feathered wings and/or tail:

Why not? I mean I don't see an issue with that. It could be a high level quest, maybe the race doesn't learn to fly until they are more experienced? PLENTY of things you can do.

I would not actually play the race myself, I am sticking to Miqo'te, however if they got a special ability to fly and I didn't? WHO CARES?! That is cool! Why would I care if I didn't get that? Maybe you can give every race something unique and cool "non-combat".

Give the game "True Night" and give Keepers/Dark Elezen/Dark Lalafell Night Vision.

They would still need to learn the Aether currents like everyone else, or they couldn't fly anyways!

This is why this game will never be anything other then just a game, player limitations set by players themselves.

Instead of a Chocobo, when they learn to ride one they can float on the ground and fly a little above ground, which would be cool!

Ahriman can already "fly" above ground and is a ground mount. That can work for this race too, then when they are more experienced (higher level zones.) they can fly in them when they learn the aether currents.

EDIT: I apologize, and replied to your entire post. I can say though whilst your ideas are COOL, and I would love to see all them because they are... Wings are a must, because that would be super unique and it is NOT hard to do in an MMO. The developers have more space to work with now.