Lupin - make it a playable race!

[Kryis]

I would like to see the Viera race in the game as another race to choose from.

[Spawnie]

Id rather lupin than some kinda mutated bunny race anyday

[heynowjose]

not before the viera...

[HydroPhydro]

Men vs Beastmen is definitiely a theme of the game that is turned on it's head once we get to heavensward. Having a playable beastman would kinda spoil that since there would be less of a division between the two groups.

[Zumi]

It's possible since we had a hint at the new race in HW with Yugiri in ARR.

[Alleo]

You know they could easily introduce the Lupin (or another beastly race) with a questline. Make it so that you need to have finished ARR with a current race. Then when you are either after the Ultima fight or truly at the end of ARR when you are on the run you can talk to a NPC and start some quest. After some dialogue and scenes a curse will hit you that will transform you into the new race. (Including all the character creation options) This way people will be able to try out the new race without truly changing their character. At the end of the quest you can choose to stay that new race or just turn back to your old character. (Anyway after doing the quest you will just unlock the option to change to this race via fantasia.) This way, the new beastly race will not just suddenly be part of the MSQ and since you already did quite some things for the realm people will just look over your new appearance. This way it would not feel that strange to see them trusting a beastly unknown race. The rest is just up to your imagination. (Like the whole reactions of all the NPCs...since they dont even care if you change race anyway..)

Anyone that is already further down the storyline can also just accept the quest but the first few sentences will be changed to show where someone is.

This will lock out people that want to start the game as the new race so its not a perfect solution but at least this would give us a bit of an ingame reason. (And on top of that they could also give us more character customization options and a free fantasia. So everyone would be happy. And those that dont want to even change in such a "ugly" race for a bit can just ignore the quests.)

[Barachim]

If the meme landscape of the internet taught me anything, is that animals can have a wide arrange of facial expressions.

[Barachim]

Seriously, type Husky meme (yeah I know, not a Wolf, but the best example) into Google, then tell me that animals with a snout can't emote.

XD