Quote Originally Posted by Jeeqbit View Post
They aren't necessarily meant to be new btw. I remember a mention in the MSQ about the Hanu Hanu's relation to the ones in the Sea of Clouds. They are more like distant cousins.
That doesn't necessarily mean they had to use the same models – the writing can come after the decision to reuse the models, to support and integrate it. I think there are other reasons for the base decision though.


Quote Originally Posted by Destati View Post
Yeah but, making them and the Moblins simple palette swaps of their Eorzean counterparts is super boring IMO.
It would have been nice to get redesigns, but I suspect they have a budget on how many new non-human character models they add, and I think they must have exhausted it on expanding the Mamool Ja instead – they added children and unique female models for two of the three tribes, which I think is the more valuable use of their time over new assorted races if it really came down to a choice of one or the other.