So Nobody is gonna say it ...ok

[Gemina]

some people truly want this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

- ok ok, you are valid too, but consider the number of options you have for human-like, petite, pretty female characters
and the number of options the other side has
see the difference now?

I'd say the options are representative of the demand. As far as females go. I wouldn't make it sound like they don't exist, or even that they are underrepresented. Even without female Hrothgar, this isn't true as both Highlander and Roe females are anything but danty princesses. With female Hrothgar, this brings the ratio of petite/cute females to burly less feminine females to 5:3 if we are to also include the Elezen and exclude Lalafell. If you rounded up 10 random gamers both male and female and asked them if they prefer females like Eve from Stellar Blade, or she-beasts, I think getting at least two to three in favor for the latter option is pretty feasible. But let's be real, most would choose Eve.

I often ponder how many among the playerbase would love a true dwarf race. All they have are Lalafell, which are very childlike. There are a lot of Gimli and Willow fans out there who have ZERO options in FFXIV.

[angienessyo]

I often ponder how many among the playerbase would love a true dwarf race. All they have are Lalafell, which are very childlike. There are a lot of Gimli and Willow fans out there who have ZERO options in FFXIV.

Honestly if the game needs one thing next it would be a smaller race. I don't know how popular dwarves would be amongst the FF14 playerbase, but I believe in variety and even if they weren't popular they'd be worth having so people have options.

[posona]

Honestly if the game needs one thing next it would be a smaller race. I don't know how popular dwarves would be amongst the FF14 playerbase, but I believe in variety and even if they weren't popular they'd be worth having so people have options.

I’d love to have a halfling-type race myself. Just give them a few features to make them more than mini-hyur.

[Allegor]

Honestly if the game needs one thing next it would be a smaller race. I don't know how popular dwarves would be amongst the FF14 playerbase, but I believe in variety and even if they weren't popular they'd be worth having so people have options.

Ngl I'd love a LoTR/WoW style dwarf, or even something like gnomes/halflings from DnD. Vox Machina nailed it with characters that are short but still very clearly adults



But, it's far more likely we'd end up with something like ...the Elin

[Arkdra]

But, it's far more likely we'd end up with something like ...the Elin

That's probably the only thing that would get me to unsub forever. The absolute freaks Elin attracted made Tera completely interminable. To this day the worst game community I have ever seen, even worse than LoL, CS, or any game on BNET.

[Boblawblah]

Ngl I'd love a LoTR/WoW style dwarf, or even something like gnomes/halflings from DnD. Vox Machina nailed it with characters that are short but still very clearly adults



But, it's far more likely we'd end up with something like ...the Elin

I remember hearing a story about the Elin, how the Japanese fans asked for a school swimsuit and the devs were like 'uh..really?' and they made it, and it sold like hotcakes.

[Roda]

Honestly if the game needs one thing next it would be a smaller race. I don't know how popular dwarves would be amongst the FF14 playerbase, but I believe in variety and even if they weren't popular they'd be worth having so people have options.

Unfortunately since the first already has "dwarves" we're likely not going to see them in the game (yeah yeah it could be handwaved by just naming swaps but I don't see it)

Plus, with the niche that we're missing it should be a little (demi)beast race.

For humans & (demi)beasts we've got:
The average and basic: Hyur/Miqo'te
The elegant, and long of leg/ear: Elezen/viera
The big and bulky: Roegadyn/Hrothgar
The small and spritely: Lalafell/???

I would've said hummingway would've fit there, but then lopporits happened~

Au ra are outliers adn should not be counted.
(maybe since their designs are supposed to be closer to voidsent/tieflings than dragons, maybe give them a counterpart that's more sineater/aasimar inspired? With a reversed dramatic sexual dimorphism? Have the females look like that one sineater that [REDACTED] that one npc in THAT scene, and then have the males resemble male miqo'te/viera with wings for ears? Could take feather design from pheonixes so they can get confused for another animal too :])

[Moqi]

some people truly want this ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

- ok ok, you are valid too, but consider the number of options you have for human-like, petite, pretty female characters
and the number of options the other side has
see the difference now?

But we already have Au Ra.

[NorthernLadMSP]

They phoned it in with female Hrothgar. They took the fem Roe body, made a stance alteration and slapped on the fur, tail and cat head. Then, like the males, locked each face to only two racial hairstyles with alternate versions that change one minor aspect such as an extra strand of hair.

[Doozer]

They phoned it in with female Hrothgar. They took the fem Roe body, made a stance alteration and slapped on the fur, tail and cat head. Then, like the males, locked each face to only two racial hairstyles with alternate versions that change one minor aspect such as an extra strand of hair.

Wait until you find out about other races sharing a skeleton.