(08-11-2013, 10:51 PM)LeCard Wrote: They already have some info up on this from Fernehalwes.Note the date that dev blog was posted.
Dev blog
and it would depend on how they pull off the dragon race, if it look more like a Bangaa then not so much, would have to choose the Viera for sure then.
However, in a strait battle between miqo and viera I would have to pick the Viera(but only if they are the awesome fran version). On that note, since miquo are already very established in lore, I don't know that adding Viera would work well.
Also two things in response to Bea. The Miqo'te in lore are a race of deadly predators, but seldom do emotes and lore ever match up. Even though the lore suggests they'd be mean and nasty or whatever, they still look like nekos so the animation team went with that the give them more appeal to a wider audience. Japanese culture is far more likely to jump on the adorable neko bandwagon than the ferocious hunter bandwagon.
In regards to the Viera, technically if you removed their ears and tail they're just Elezen that don't trim their toe nails.
It should also be remembered even if they did add them as a new race, they would be Viera-like, not actually Viera (unless they just ripped them right out of Ivalice and said they got here through some space time vortex thing like Lightning). That being said, the Viera in FFXIV could be completely unlike the ones from FFXII except for appearance, just like none of the Races in FFXIV have any real commonalities beyond superficial ones with the races from FFXI. The Eorzean Viera could end up just being some long isolated race of tribal bunny people that are discovered living somewhere and then end up just being another race option with some lore details and nothing more like every other race.
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