New possible race

[Soge01]

It would be nice to see some sort of winged looking angel like race based off of the likeness of Garuda with a few more beastial traits to make it look less typical human race than the others are. Kinda like how male Auri with their scary/demonic appearance. I could see this race as being rival or enemy race of the Auri from a different land; possibly a new continent drifting in the clouds somewhere outside of Eorzea.

A cyborgnetic race created from the Allagans failed experiments to create to races could be another idea. Their bodies could vary in size like the high and lowlander hyur, bodies have different racial and metalic patterns such as lizard skin on one side of the face with kittty ears on the other with unique pulsating eyes where theeyes are completely black except the irises and pupils which pulsate a light sutle flash of energy each time their hearts beat. Basically cyborg mutants. XD

I would love to see this wolf race be an offical playable race added into the game, but if not I hope we get some kind of dog/wolf-like race to be a sworn enemy or rival of the Miqo'te race. It'd be nice if they were the reverse of how the Miqo'te are as well where there are mostly males with few females in this race and instead being cutsy, they're tall, fierce and intimidating; at least standing around the same height as the male Roegydans (hope I spelled that right XD ) with either sleek and well groomed or booshy and wild fur with either long or short or stubby tails. Also visiable claws and fangs too, the scarier the better!

Annnnddd....now I'm done! Okay that was my two cents here, hope it wasn't too much stuff, bye. XD

[Kazrah]

It would be nice to see some sort of winged looking angel like race based off of the likeness of Garuda with a few more beastial traits to make it look less typical human race than the others are. Kinda like how male Auri with their scary/demonic appearance. I could see this race as being rival or enemy race of the Auri from a different land; possibly a new continent drifting in the clouds somewhere outside of Eorzea.

You mean kinda like the Aegyl of Ivalice?

[Evergrey]

I don't understand why it always have to be "We against them", "This or that" kind of mindset all the time.
Do you like Viera, sure. Nothing wrong with that.
Do you like something else (Wolfman is the hot topic atm), sure. Nothing wrong with that.
Do you want either of them in the game, sure.

There's no need to go all offensive and fight for one or the other.
Show your interest and support instead.
Fighting over if some pixels will get added to a game is just childish.
Why does it matter if someone else wants something you dont? How does that effect your everyday life?
Does it feel like "your side" is losing if you don't stand up and fight for it?

There's already been an inverview where Yoshida said not to give up hope on Viera.
So he knows that alot from the FFXIV community wants them.
https://www.finder.com.au/final-fant...ormblood-viera

The thing with the Wolf People is that they are the first Beastmen we've seen that's wearing "normal" armour that you and I can use.
Which alot of people hinted at that it could be possible for it to be playable sometime in the future.
And what's wrong with that?
Maybe not as many people want a Wolfman in the game because they themselves would not play it.
But others might? And is that wrong?
Sure, the work to implement anything costs. But if SE wants to they could implement anything they see fit.

Personally I see that the more being implemented the more diversity we get.
Which adds to a more living world in my opinion.

[Shougun]

While there may be value in saying there is a more desired race so do that I do believe that there is also some value in creating a tapestry piece race, even if it isn't most popular as it can be used to help diversify all the races at once (one race to greatly effect the others).

Just to be lazy with colors for example, lets say the more similar the race is the more similar the colors are - I'm sure people can imagine a few great paintings that use a very small selection of colors but I also know (if you've seen a lot of art) that you can make some truly amazing contrast points that really note everything even more when not every detail is the same (like the Japanese Water Temples, the red contrasting and complementing greatly with the vast colors of blue around it). Benefit of it not being equal is that the people who wanted that stand out color can really feel stand out as all get out lol, but majority colors can still be popular ones. Anyways, not suggesting it must be unique but also saying that there is /some/ reason why you could go not most popular and it still be a visual benefit to everyone (in the long run, undoubtedly you will have complaints that it wasn't XYZ because that's what majority wanted).

As for the lore they'd obviously have to be smart about it but I doubt that it would be impossible for them to work around it. Also the wolf ones could be fairly simple just with the primal curse / Garlean experiment jazz. That way they don't even have a back story, and you gain access to them via the story, which means you've already worked hard on a lot of the xenophobia - SE can work around your change future forward rather than looking in the past. Probably making it one of the easiest races to implement due to the fact they'd have no culture to reference and few plots to adjust. This sort of race within a race idea could be used on some other options as well, if SE wanted to let players become some sort of Vincent Vampire thing for example... earning your self optional body glamour could be interesting (do a quest that drops you into the lifestream, unlock yourself Cloud eyes lol).

Then again this is probably why I suggested the race equipment a few pages ago, it gives SE and us a lot of visual freedom without having to create the entire structure (saving money) - so if you wanted the crazy wolf face and the digitigrade feet you'd just accept the fact that you're going to glamour it on that slot and NOT be able to use a helm / boots because you chose it (as again like the really cool more bestial Au Ra features could become tribal race unlocks that take the place of equipment, gaining you scales and crazy horns).

[Nestama]

I personally wouldn't play a race like this, but i don't understand the response of the "my favorite kinds of races are more popular" crowd. We've got enough to choose from imo.
I'd be happy to see the devs put the addition of yet more moe blob races on the back burner in favor of something bestial, powerful, or "ugly" so we could have some more diverse racial designs.

It is pretty annoying and SE have proved they're willing to make something that will be unpopular. Example of this is the female Roegadyn. Back in 1.0, I'm pretty sure Roegadyn were still in the low % of played races, yet even despite this, SE still made the female Roegadyn playable and even though they're less popular than the males, there are people who play them and love that they're in the game.

That all said, if this race were planned to be playable at some point in the future, then I don't care if Viera are also added at some point. Be it before or after, both sides are getting something they like.

[Evergrey]

It is pretty annoying and SE have proved they're willing to make something that will be unpopular. Example of this is the female Roegadyn. Back in 1.0, I'm pretty sure Roegadyn were still in the low % of played races, yet even despite this, SE still made the female Roegadyn playable and even though they're less popular than the males, there are people who play them and love that they're in the game.

That all said, if this race were planned to be playable at some point in the future, then I don't care if Viera are also added at some point. Be it before or after, both sides are getting something they like.

Perfect point.
It doesn't have to be popular for people to like something. Even if they are fewer in number.
Everything is worth doing. Some things take priority over other of course.

[Izanagi_Fiaresu]

Please no more furry races. It brings...not the best people to the game.

[MomomiMomi]

It is pretty annoying and SE have proved they're willing to make something that will be unpopular. Example of this is the female Roegadyn. Back in 1.0, I'm pretty sure Roegadyn were still in the low % of played races, yet even despite this, SE still made the female Roegadyn playable and even though they're less popular than the males, there are people who play them and love that they're in the game.

That all said, if this race were planned to be playable at some point in the future, then I don't care if Viera are also added at some point. Be it before or after, both sides are getting something they like.

Female roegadyn were also one of the most popular requests there was, though, even before 1.0 launched.

[Soge01]

You mean kinda like the Aegyl of Ivalice?

A little, but without the wings attached to the back; that would cause terrible clipping. XD I was thinking of a humanoid Ixali playable race with feathers placed sticking out across and covering the upper arms in light color plumage with a thinner feathers covering most of their backs and chest save for the middle of the chest and stomach; along with more light feathers covering the upper part of the legs with some plumage sticking out like on the arms with bird like scales complety covering both the feet and hands with calw like fingernails like the Gold Saucer's glamour finger gear, except a little shorter.


A lighter set of scales on the face made to look and feel close to like skin though not like the dotted scale bits on the Auri and more like it covers the whole face and neck. Their hair would also be made out of feathers, but much thinner similar to hair but still noticeably different with a few hairstyles that only they could pull off. And the eyes, they have this vibrant and radiant piercing like stare like a hawk or eagles with eye color that can have one solid color in one or both eyes and a lighter additional color added into the background of the colored eyes; completely different from the Auri eye rings amd more like noticeable specks of colorful star dust in the background of colored night sky. And the eyebrows, thin and short with a sort of frown or worrisome look to them.

I was thinking this race clans could have two distinctly different main features between the two like the hyur have. Like one is a taller darker colored predatory bird clan that take closely after vultures, hawks and or eagles while other is a docile skittish clan made up of various colorful smaller birds (don't have any examples for this one since I don't know birds very well).

Hmm, that's all I have for this race for now. :/

[Tonkra]

We already also have a race that is in the game but that isnt playable. The padjal Race:






the one with horns.
I personally would play them.

But maybe the Padjal race should stay exclusive to the lore (being rare and close to nature), well.
And maybe it would look awkward having horns looking through helmets to each side.