Square Enix reveals all of Final Fantasy XIV's races and clans

by Mike Schramm on Apr 5th 2010 11:40PM

Square Enix has revealed detailed information about the five new "clans" found within the races of Eorzea, the realm in which upcoming MMO Final Fantasy XIV will take place. Clans offer up two slightly different character options within the five overall race choices -- for example, if you want to play as a burly Roegadyn, you can go with the paler and more subdued "Sea Wolf" fisherman clan, or heat things up with the rock-and-fire influenced "Hellsguard" clan. Information on all of the races and clans is now available on Square Enix's website.

Unfortunately for Final Fantasy fans, we looked through the whole list of clans, and not a single one of the races lets you become a Sith Warrior. Sure, the Miqo'te Seekers of the Sun look cute and all, but is their one stated goal to kill Jedi? No? Pass, then, sorry.

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Tags: choices, clan, clans, eorzea, final-fantasy-xiv, fisherman, hellsguard, mmo, paler, races, roegadyn, sea-wolf, sith-warrior, square-enix

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FF14>The Old Republic MMO!

lol jk but i am more exited for FF14 than KOTOR MMO!

I don't actually know which one i am more excited for. I guess probably The Old Republic, but i just don't know.

YOU DARE STATE YOUR OPINION?!?!

My bad.

I agree. I can't wait until this game is released. I'm hoping they make an announcement for the 360 sometime soon. If it's released at a later date that the PS3 and PC that's fine too...but I'd rather not have to buy a PS3 or upgrade my PC if I don't have to.

However if I end up having to I will.

BioWare said they are not planning a 360 version. But like anything else in the industry, that could change.

Whoa.

Same damn races as FFXI. Just different (crappier) names that don't role off the tongue as easy as FFXI's names.

No male Mithras, no female Galkas. Same shit.

Where is my ps3 beta code

Darn, I wanted to play as a Cait Sith! D:

Cait Sith was a character, not a race.

And yes, I get the joke

besides cait sith in ff7 hes also been a summon and coeurl type enemy so a cait sith is a species

One is a JRPG.
One is an MMO, and the long awaited replacement for FFXI.

Besides, YOU of all people have no room to talk regarding 'excessive sequels'.

If anyone should be pleased about someone pumping out sequels, it should be you.

Is that a sort of mixed drink?

*shakes head in disbelief*

bobby, bobby, bobby...

Is Avatar some sort of themed bar? Sounds trendy.

you mean jakesooly?

STFU YOU HYPOCRITE

Bear man and cat girl look so lonely. They oughtta...date!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urNyg1ftMIU

Never mind Sith, S-E gave us freakin *Drow* this year!

F%#%. YES.

Plus, XIV isn't a sequel. We've only had one real Final Fantasy sequel, and it didn't turn out for the best.

i'll wait for the next proper Final Fantasy game, thankyouverymuch. this mmo crap needs to go the way of Barthandalus and just die already. And no, I don't care how his name is SUPPOSED to be spelled.

Thank you for the highly insightful comment, I'm sure you will sway many people to your side with your well-thought out thesis on why you do not like a video game that is at least 6 months from release.
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*stares*

They look...exactly the same.

As...?

With this re-imagining though, I'd hope they'd shake up the status quo. These aren't your old Galka, these are the Roegadyn, give them some damn females as playable characters! These aren't your old Mithra, these are the Miqo'te, give them more males, shake up their lore to differ from the Mithra's so that the males are much more common and thus playable! Maybe even add a new playable race/species to the mix just for the hell of it, to prove this isn't quite FFXI-2! *crosses fingers for an FFXIV equivalent of the Yagudo, because bird men are hellacool*

Good call on not having Viera, although I guess the Migo'te are a substitute for the furries.

Sounds more like a Klingon phrase than a name...

FF13.
It turned out for the ok-it's a pretty decent game-but not the second coming of Jesus FF game-we've come to expect. I enjoyed it. I think it gets a bad rap since it's popular like Avatar and people tend to be more critical to things that are popular.

oh, you were talking about X-2...(I sure need to learn to read).

Ok, yeah, the plot and characters were pretty lame in X-2, but the gameplay was the best in the series I thought.

Ryan will probably get downvoted, but he's dangerously on to something.

Weebles wobble but they don't fall down!

How embarrassing! They all wore the same outfit.

They might Lalafell though!

Looking mighty generic, as expected. Enjoy your $15 a month fetch quests and level grinds, people.

As opposed to WoW or any other MMO? (exception being STO)

Do you have secret closed beta access to FFXIV where you know exactly what all the quests and the leveling system is like? Because otherwise I'd say you're making a very ignorant statement. This isn't FFXI, it's FFXIV. Though the races may look the same, the gameplay is very different. The classes are set up completely differently, with a new way of leveling. FFXIV even has dedicated crafting classes, something we haven't seen in a mainstream MMO since SWG.

Fail. There is no character level system to speak of. Do your research

I guess you haven't been keeping up with the news. Your loss, pal ;)

Is it just me, or do most of them look remarkably generic and unimaginative?

would you rather run around as some octopus creature in leotards? :P

It's just... I've seen all this before.

Where the hell did you come up with--

Actually, I would like very much to run around as an octopus creature in leotards.

I too would like to run around as an octopus creature chasing leotards.

It's 2010, we still have people hating FFXI and FFXIV because they're MMOs? Did everyone forget we live in the world of World of Warcraft, the most popular MMO out there that everyone has either played or met someone who has? I'm sure when WoW was announced it had some fanboys crying that they wanted a Warcraft 4 and not this MMO crap, but they've been proven oh so wrong. MMOs are cool now, it's okay to be excited about them being based on pre-existing franchises, even ones as loosely framed as Final Fantasy. We won't fault you for looking past the monthly fee and seeing the potential of an awesome open world adventure where you can roleplay as something/someone unlike who you are in real life. Give it a taste, we won't bite.

The thing about WoW is that it DOESN'T call itself Warcraft 4.

If Starcraft II was actually an MMO (World of Starcraft?) then there would be riots. Guaranteed, especially in Korea.

But WoW is a sequel to Warcraft 3. "Star Wars: The Old Republic" is called TOR, not KotOR3, but you still have people bitching to high heaven about wanting KotOR3. It may not apply to WoW in direct name, but people are doing it to KotOR. Just due to the rule of probability, there HAD to be some people who heard about the announcement of WoW and said "boo, I wanted Warcraft 4!".

why no female Roegadyn?

i like big burly women who can snap sissy boys in two with their thighs.... :(

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