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Also - I love Ronsos, they're one of my favourite races in FF of all times. However...if Au Ra, by lore, was almost too iffy for ARR lore with how apprehensive and fearful Eorzeans were toward beastmen (which looked like beasts), how is a fully furred anthro person with a completely animalistic face going to pass in Eorzea when a partially scaled yet completely human-faced au ra was potentially iffy?

Also, why are dwarves a beast tribe while Hrothgar are not? Does this make any sense, because it seems pretty backwards based on our other beast tribes. I could accept Hrothgar just fine even if it is iffy lore-wise, but... not as genderlocked. Not if it means viera are genderlocked either.
That's my biggest hesistation about Hrothgar, really. They don't seem to fit with the existing story in ARR very well.

Dwarves as a beast tribe, though... the term "beast tribe" is kind of an awkward label that I think they're only sticking with because it defines a specific game gimmick - a non-playable race/tribe that you run daily quests for - and they don't want to change it. Even in Stormblood, the "beast races" aren't really treated differently to "human races" like they were in Eorzea. (Which category do Lupin fit into, after all? Do we only consider them "not a beast tribe" because a band of them didn't settle an isolated village somewhere and ask us to run fetchquests?)

I'm more annoyed that despite claiming that dwarves *are* physically Lalafells, their eyes are in completely the wrong place and (from where that implies their head is positioned) their body proportions look extremely strange.