Gaelicatnip and Mi'qote

[MistakeNot]

I believe "the Five Races" is a general umbrella term for the races inhabiting Eorzea (Hyur, Elezen, Lalafell, Roegadyn, Miqo'te, Au Ra, and Garlean). All seven of them. And that's without counting the don't-call-them-beast-tribes that live in Eorzea and abroad.

Until quite recently neither Au Ra nor Garleans lived in Eorzea. The term "the Five Races" is undoubtedly older than that.

[YianKutku]

Until quite recently neither Au Ra nor Garleans lived in Eorzea. The term "the Five Races" is undoubtedly older than that.

Younger than the Allagans, though, since we know the Allagans obviously spanned the globe, and so had knowledge of the non-Eorzean races.

Also dragons exist in Eorzea and are definitely Spoken, but are not considered one of the Races, so who even knows. Are they Beast Tribe?

Also also surely it's not the Six Races, but the Twelve Races, due to the two variations in each playable character option? (Could we assign each to one of the Twelve?)

To be more serious, I think this is just Koji Fox being a bit too used to FFXI; I recall an interview where he was talking about the playable races, and went "Five Races... no, wait, six races now".