(08-02-2013, 02:32 PM)Ashren Snow Wrote:Â *nods*(08-02-2013, 02:21 PM)Rock Sandbourne Wrote: Hell I'd sure as hell love to see Tigermen/Lionmen with Gilgamesh as their primal for example.The problem with that is Gilgamesh was already announced to be in the game with his own story arc, so he's not a possible candidate for Primal. I doubt we'll ever see a feline type Beastmen because it's too much like the Miqo'te and would essentially imply there is a very thin line between Miqo'te and Beastmen, though a Lupine type Beastman is a possibility, however I remember in one of Merri's lore posts there was apparently a documented Lycanthropy disease in the setting which might discount the possibility of that happening too. Of course this is just following the idea that in order for it to be a Mammal type Beastmen race it needs to resemble a real world mammal, they could just as easily make a race that was just mammal-like, such as having fur, fangs, a tail, claws, etc, while not directly resembling a specific animal (but maybe being an amalgam of numerous real world animals). I'm willing to bed that as we get access to more parts of Eorzea, we'll probably encounter new types of Beastmen.
Of course this is a bit off top from the whole dimension jumping discussion, except the part about Gilgamesh since that's been his niche since he was introduced to the franchise.
I'd be fine with Bearmen as well or the amalgam that you mentioned
A good FFXIV lore site: http://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Eorzea