(10-21-2016, 05:33 PM)Aysun Wrote:Found it!(10-21-2016, 05:32 PM)Virella Wrote: Hasn't it been said that Au ra are confirmed NOT to be descendants of dragons? Like, multiply times by the devs and ingame? It's all nice and dandy, but I think the crux of it all was that Ishgard confused them for dragons, but they really aren't dragons, or ever were dragons to begin with?
If anything those Ishgardians are more draconian due to their curse then Au ra ever will be. Oh the irony.
That's what I've seen. However, I do not have sources on hand. Hoping someone else does to verify.
http://gamerescape.com/2015/06/18/loreca...rnehalwes/
F: Way back in 2010, Yoshida floated the idea of a reptilian demi-beastmen race – I think it was in one of the player surveys – and the Au Ra seem to be the eventual result. The concept art showed that they were referred to as draconian, but now they’re said to be demonic. What’s some background on that? Was this changed to prevent association with Shiva’s … relationship?
KF: The original concept was that we wanted to do something different than what we have in the game currently. We have our five races and they’re all fairly humanoid. Even the miqo’te – you have ears and a tail, but take them away and it’s still humanoid. We threw around the idea of the Viera, but, again, take out the ears and it’s humanoid. They wanted something that was a little bit more beastlike. So, you have the ideas of the dragons, and the wolfman art, and then you have the demon look. It went through a lot of different stages, and we tried to take the best of all of them. Of course, when you get the reptilian or draconian design, and you have the story of Heavensward focusing on Ishgard and the Dragonsong War, if you bring in something that is a dragon, you have to wonder how that player fits into the story. We didn’t want there to be that mess or alienate the players that choose that. Once we knew where the story was going to go, we were able to meld it all together and fix the design for what we have now.
