[Spoiler... sort of?] Sri Lakshmi

[BillyKaplan]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Sophia of the Warring Triad have a mostly human body as well? My memory of the lore surrounding her is a little shaky being a year old, but I don't think her worshippers were human.

You see supposedly 3 of them, her Demiurges, in the fight. They all seem to hail from humanoid races we're familiar with. What I'm curious about is her head-only daughter.

[Alleo]

Its kinda sad that most of the female primals look like a beautiful human with some bits of their followers and yet the male primals mostly look much more inhuman. I smell a pretty big bias there. And its not like some scales and showing the tail would have made her ugly as heck but imo more believable as the goddess of a snake beast tribe.

[Kuroka]

^ This. Given that most of the beast tribes have some Allagan influence or origin in ARR it wouldn't surprise me if the Anata were similar. Especially given the Lamia enemies you find in some Allagan ruins and Melusine in particular.

Actually the Info about the Ananta says that they were the material the Allagans used for their Monsters.

[Nestama]

You see supposedly 3 of them, her Demiurges, in the fight. They all seem to hail from humanoid races we're familiar with. What I'm curious about is her head-only daughter.

Fun fact: the head is officially called Barbelo
Given how Barbelo is 'born' into the fight (scales), she's probably the true form of Sophia's Equilibrium or something.

[ChaoticCrimson]

Fun fact: the head is officially called Barbelo
Given how Barbelo is 'born' into the fight (scales), she's probably the true form of Sophia's Equilibrium or something.

"Daughter, be the bearer of my wisdom."
*vomits laser beam*

[Dualgunner]

The party begins where her human half ends ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )

Ah, I see you're a Warrior of Light of culture as well.

[dinnertime]

Its kinda sad that most of the female primals look like a beautiful human with some bits of their followers and yet the male primals mostly look much more inhuman. I smell a pretty big bias there. And its not like some scales and showing the tail would have made her ugly as heck but imo more believable as the goddess of a snake beast tribe.

That's only true to Lakshmi, but for a good reason.
Garuda looks humanoid but I wouldn't say she is beautiful, more like creepy tbh. Plus the real Garuda is a human being.
Meanwhile Sophia is what she is because she's a homage to the FFVI version.
And then Shiva is an Elezen so she's supposed to be human-like.

[Vejjiegirl]

If you take a close look you can see scales on Lakshmi's hip where her snake tail starts, it seems her scales are blueish, like her dress

[Nestama]

"Daughter, be the bearer of my wisdom."
*vomits laser beam*

/shrug
I'm just going by how she comes into the arena (which is right after Sophia drops the scales).


Barbelo also has two mouths for some reason. Human face good, demonic chin-mouth evil?

[Kahnom]

If you take a close look you can see scales on Lakshmi's hip where her snake tail starts, it seems her scales are blueish, like her dress

Heh... nice observation.
This is a good sign that Au Ra might get more various-colors scales in the future.