(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.
Um... no. No it hasn't.
The character creation screen suggests Eorzean scholars believe that Au Ra are not Dravanian in descent, based on traits the Au Ra have which dragons do not (horns which help them hear/perceive space, and sexual dimorphism).
That's a completely different thing than it being "confirmed". The lore team are always extremely ready to point out how "Eorzean scholars" are wrong about everything.
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Personally I'm fond of the theory outlined in the OP - and of blending it with my stubborn headcanon that Au Ra are Allagan experiments in origin... it explains their seemingly odd mixture of reptilian and mammalian traits, and also accounts, ironically, for a lot of different headcanons about their biology. Allagan creations are genetically unstable, so it's completely possible that, for example, one tribe's tails will grow back if cropped and another's won't - allowing both headcanons to be accepted mid-RP (my au ra like "ah yes, strangers always have odd goings-on with their biology, this is expected") without resorting to meta slap-fights over whose headcanon is more valid.
It'd also explain how they ended up in Othard - since presumably the Allagans touched the continent as well? Maybe they took their experiments from Meracydia and deployed them there instead of sending them to the moon like they did with everything else from Meracydia.
It's a coping mechanism I've developed for the lack of info on au ra biology. >< I'll happily supercede it with more concrete info if we get it, but.
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