New Beastmen from Live Letter!

[Taaku]

He's obviously just a fan of XIV, and is waiting for Phase 3 :x .......

[NoloeTazier]

It isn't that far from Ul'dah to Limsa. The only obstacle would be crossing the sea that separates them and that would only take a day or two with a boat. It is within the realm of possibility that a beastmen tribe could build a boat and move places and then develop some different traits overtime. Humans did it for the entire world before we developed electricity, so why can't beastmen?

Being nitpicky but Paglath'an isn't Ul'dah or Thanalan, it's north and east of Ul'dah and is a HUGE area. At the moment the only race we know that uses 'technological' transportation are the Ixali and their 'dirgibles.' I don't it's too farfetched to think the Beastmen have stolen boats to use, but there's no precedence for the Amalj'aa having used them. Sure the Mamool Ja and Amalj'aa names are similar but evolution wise there's a very large gap.

Amalj'aa have 4 fingers and 4 toes. Mamool Ja have 3 fingers and 2 toes. Which is a huge gap in evolution. They could still be related but it wouldn't be a close or recent ancestor. Amalj'aa are way more bulkier despite living in a desert with fewer prey than than the waters, caves, and hills of La Noscea. Tanaka might have went in designing the Amalj'aa off the FFXI Mamool Ja, but this is FFXIV and we have our different Lore. They're very similar but they're also very different at the same time.

I was discussing with a friend shortly after we saw this and she asked me if maybe the Mamool Ja had been living underground and Bahamut had simply uncovered them and I said: Well if they were underground dwellers they would be white or very pale and chances are the Kobolds would know about them with their mining operations. One thing I noticed in the video was the axe the Mamool Ja used is the same as the Kobolds. So there's probably some kind of dealings in ARR. But maybe it's entirely plausible for this race to have existed in the huge area between Limsa Lominsa and Camp Iron Lake undisturbed. Funny enough this area is speculated to be the city of Nym and the area is called the Wanderer's Palace, a major hint to Oschon.

I am still wondering if Goblins and Qirin will have a primal

I think the Qirin will DEFINITELY have their own Primal as we've seen in 1 of the videos, I forget which, there's a Qirin FATE so the Qirin have become aggressive. So like the Sylphs, maybe some of the clan/tribe are being swayed by a Primal. As for the Goblins it's a wait and see thing. Every 100 years the Goblins go on a great pilgrimage, we don't know where or why...so it could be a "religious" Primal kinda thing. The last Goblin Pilgrimage just happened to be 1472 6A.E., add 100 and it's 1572 6A.E. which was 'Present Day' 1.0. So if the Goblins continued they could be gathered together and if taught by a Paragon, summon a Primal.

[Duuude007]

Goblins and Qiqirn both became aggressive as Dalamud approached in 1.23. I witnessed invasion attempts to Ul'dah by both (2 GM-sponsored events, and they fought as 1 species per event)

[Shadow_Sama]

Oh, I would say:

Mandragora -> Fenrir :P

[Alaltus]

Maybe we will see Gnolls affiliated with Fenrir. Could also see Hades ruling over the undead.

I wonder if all these XI mobs will mean we will see XI antlions alongside XIV ants? It probably would work fairly well. Though i liked IX antlions... Ideally i'd be happy with XI antlions as the elite soldiers and IX antlions as queens/bosses of the nest.

[NoloeTazier]

If that's not a Sahagin then yeah. Interesting. Kobold, Qirin, Sahagin, Mamool Ja all on Vylbrand.

[Xeia]

More than just the appearance is the same. According to the nameplate, that is a Mamool Ja Executioner. ^^

[Enkidoh]

Could just be a placeholder mob, but... this is interesting. I speculated on, that other forum, that the mamool'ja could be an offshoot tribe from the amal'jaa, who are simillar in both name and appearance (both are a race of brutal lizard men with names ending in 'ja' and a prefix which is spoken near identically). Ironically there was precedent with this in FFXI - after all, remember the moblin race offshoot from the goblins?

I really hope orcs don't appear in XIV though, as they were never entirely comfortable being in XI (I personally assumed it was simply because the Lord of the Rings films were released around the time of the game's original development and hence influenced the original team).

So yeah, personally I think these guys are an offshoot tribe from the amal'jaa (in which case, it stands to reason their Primal would still be Ifrit if that is indeed true).

[NoloeTazier]

Could just be a placeholder mob, but... this is interesting. I speculated on, that other forum, that the mamool'ja could be an offshoot tribe from the amal'jaa, who are simillar in both name and appearance (both are a race of brutal lizard men with names ending in 'ja' and a prefix which is spoken near identically). Ironically there was precedent with this in FFXI - after all, remember the moblin race offshoot from the goblins?

I really hope orcs don't appear in XIV though, as they were never entirely comfortable being in XI (I personally assumed it was simply because the Lord of the Rings films were released around the time of the game's original development and hence influenced the original team).

So yeah, personally I think these guys are an offshoot tribe from the amal'jaa (in which case, it stands to reason their Primal would still be Ifrit if that is indeed true).

That might be indeed, but if that's indeed La Noscea it'd be a big leap for a tribe to be in this area of La Noscea and then the other tribe live in the deserts of Paglath'an. Not just a Primal difference but an evolution difference. To me they look more like the ffxiv Sahagins than the hulking Amalj'aa.

[Ryans]

That might be indeed, but if that's indeed La Noscea it'd be a big leap for a tribe to be in this area of La Noscea and then the other tribe live in the deserts of Paglath'an. Not just a Primal difference but an evolution difference. To me they look more like the ffxiv Sahagins than the hulking Amalj'aa.

It isn't that far from Ul'dah to Limsa. The only obstacle would be crossing the sea that separates them and that would only take a day or two with a boat. It is within the realm of possibility that a beastmen tribe could build a boat and move places and then develop some different traits overtime. Humans did it for the entire world before we developed electricity, so why can't beastmen?