Hello, My Name is Human

[Tsumdere]

Not a fan of Viera, but if they make a new race, I'd rather they expand on the new race they sort of added in SB, the Lupin. I mean, since some people have this odd obession with bunny girls like Fran, mind as well, make Viera a female race and make Lupin a male only race. With Vieras, I just can't imagine male vieras and with Lupin I can't imagine female lupins. Male Vieras would look odd, and female Lupins would look worse, especially with all the fur. I know we already established the 2 gender races in this game, but for these 2 races, one gender for those races would seem more pleaseable on the eyes. Course, since I love guys and I'm sort of a furry, I'd go for a male Lupin in a heartbeat, depending on how well SE designs them.

I will respectfully disagree. There is nothing I dislike more than gender-locked races. It often makes zero sense in lore and reeks of laziness and pandering. Plus, male Viera do exist and it would be easy to imagine a tall Amazonian man with long ears (please. cat boys. it is exactly the same concept.) and there is female Lupins in the game right now. They look exactly like male Lupins.

I hate it when males are delegated to being bestial and the women being humanoid and beautiful. Either do both genders or none at all.

[laurtias]

No matter what new race they add, it'd be nice (in my opinion) if you could create a new character of that race and pick up at the latest expansion.

[Brainstorm incoming]
Maybe you could only play a certain new class and you would start in the new zone. Maybe other characters wanting to pick up that class would be taught by the native (whatever race), but that rave could choose it at character creation. Maybe they could start out at a lower level than 70 and have a different "intro" to the overall game and expansion than the character who you leveled originally to get there.
It could be a feature available to players who have completed all the MSQ on a character already up to that point.

All I know is it would add to the immersion (instead of going through 2.0 as the new race and having no one react to that, much like with Au Ra), and avoid all the catching up going through the MSQ again. It would also be alt-friendly for players with distinct characters in mind.

I doubt they would ever do this, but I would love it if they did.

[Gemina]

Au Ra are dragon-kin so they're reptiles not mammals, they're already a different species.

Well, according to their lore, their progeny to dragons is disputed by scholars and they are described as "Hyur-like". I am also going by that they are not referred to as a different species anywhere in the game to my knowledge. Just another playable race. Each race could make a case for being a different species to be honest. Even Hyurs are technically humanoid.

[DevonEllwood]

Hello fellow human, I think these would be nice for something a bit less human

[Rokke]

I just read here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...d_humans_from/ that it seems that they're more in line with void-kin than dragons or mammals.

No. The art team was inspired by demons.

You hardly need to look at a 2 year old "what if?" post, as of SB we know:
✔ Au Ra are warmblooded
✔ Au Ra have live births/breasts
✔ Voidsent are mutated denizens of the 13th world

They're mammals.

I hate it when males are delegated to being bestial and the women being humanoid and beautiful. Either do both genders or none at all.

The world needs more monster girl waifus

[MsQi]

Nanaki! that is all.

[Joven]

Hello fellow human, I think these would be nice for something a bit less human

That would be nice, but probably falls into the "no intention of adding body hair at this time" category

[Joven]

No. The art team was inspired by demons.

You hardly need to look at a 2 year old "what if?" post, as of SB we know:
✔ Au Ra are warmblooded
✔ Au Ra have live births/breasts
✔ Voidsent are mutated denizens of the 13th world

They're mammals.

Who said voidsent can't have breasts or bear children? Or that they aren't warmblooded?

The world needs more monster girl waifus

I agree 100%

[Rokke]

Who said voidsent can't have breasts or bear children? Or that they aren't warmblooded?

That was for the thread you linked. They're not demons or dragons or reptiles, if anything the only headcanon from that thread thats sorta plausible would be Allagan experiments but they'd end up being manmade humanoid mammals vs. regular ol humanoid mammals... and even then it'd be kiiiiinda pushing it since Au Ra as we know them existed during the Allagan empire (Odin minion + HoH spoilers).

I agree 100%

at least we agree on the important stuff

[HyoMinPark]

The ears would still clip through any hats, cowls and helmets. Unless they made it where they could only equip head gear like glasses, circlets and masks.

Not necessarily, since Miqo’te ears either have holes cut into the hat for the (a lot of 1.0/ARR gear had this), or they have what I call “ear spikes”, where the hat covers where the ears would be. They could also make them disappear, as Miqo’te ears do under things like the berets. Au Ra horns are usually the ones that clip through the cowls and hats. But still—they’d have to remodel every pair of shoes and every pair of gloves in the game for a more bestial race, and they already expressed not wanting to do that.

Aside from the fact that JP players have also expressed a lack of desire when it comes to having a more bestial race.