be Ananta

[LineageRazor]

It's just a race like the hyur or elezen. Hydaelyn can't be racist nor picky, when everything's in chaos.

Hydaelyn may not be picky, but the rest of the "human" races certainly are. Even if most races are not outright genocidal like the Garleans, there's no way that it would make any sense for beastmen to progress through the main scenario quests without some mighty significant changes. The odds of SE adding a separate "beastman path" Main Scenario to the game are ridiculously small...

It's not out of the question that we may someday lets us play as beastmen for isolated content (some form of PvP, for instance), returning to our regular player characters after the instance is over, but they will likely never be added as a fully-fledged playable race.

[Vexander]

It'll never be playable, because there aren't any male Ananta canonically. SE has moved away from that archaic and sexist attitude since 2.0 launched, with the inclusion of Male Miqo'te and Female Roegadyn.

That said, I'm in favor of Beast Tribes offering rewards at max reputation which allow the player to essentially glamour themselves into a member of that Beast Tribe. It should help go a long way to alleviate peoples desire to play certain Beast Tribes. Just make the buff last until turned off, persist through combat and character death, no duration, no cool down on the item, all of that.

[SpiritTamer]

[Ralts]

omg hahahaha

[Theodric]

A playable race limited to a single gender just wouldn't work out well at all. They tried that back in 1.0 and it was heavily criticised - and rightly so. Gender locked races/classes just aren't fun or an efficient use of resources.

[TristanBlane]

I love the ananta and can't wait for their beast tribe quests and m ananta minion & mount <3