A Totally Accurate Guide to Au Ra | Final Fantasy 14

[@iarmandov2]

Going to the Azim Steppes and experiencing my Au Ras culture first hand, my god was I not ready. We’re bat shit crazy and wanna throw hands with anything that moves.

[@Rhigitar]

Sounds like you're a Dotharl

[@iarmandov2]

@@Rhigitar who’s asking lol 😂

[@ViralN9]

You say it like that's a bad thing.

[@iarmandov2]

@@ViralN9 not even haha 😆

[@MortalSora]

Based on everything I know about Yugiri, I figured her name literally translated to the Japanese for Waifu

[@Wylyth-nr3hq]

It should be made perfectly clear that the relationship between a Goro and their spouse is purely platonic, and any suggestion that they would violate a perfect being in such a way would likely result in bones being broken.

[@silverdragon147]

I imagine it being akin to Arthur Morgan and his horse. A deep love and respect between partners. But nothing inappropriate.

[@Monstergirl-ologist]

Feel like I should mention that their gods didn't bump privates. The moon and sun gods were arguing who was the best parents over the new world despite not having kids yet and discovered pathogenesis. So the kids argued about who was the best parent till they decided both parents were cool so then mom and dad actually decided to stop bickering for their kids...then they might've actually poked lol

[@Enixon869]

I usually just mash the random name button until I see something that sounds nice, becasue I like to make sure to have lore-friendly names. I ended up with a Qestir, months later I find out about the actual Qestir tripe in game and suddenly the WoL's whole "silent protagonist" thing fits so well.

[@Rhigitar]

" ... "

[@1LuvMLPFiM]

Au Ra best race

[@DrakenGunslinger]

As a Xaela Aura Dark Knight. I'm certain I'm full on edgy.. plus I look cool with red and black

[@Cheesecakeman105]

There is one thing to note: most Xaela Au Ra believe that Azim and Nhaama created each clan independently of the other to use them as soldiers to fight the forces of the other deity. After a time the two clans came to love each other rather than hate and the quarrel ended, with the Dawn Father and Dusk Mother returning to the heavens to let their children live together in peace.

[@FinalFay]

This is a fantastic guide! Amusing, entertaining and in-depth accurate! :D I am happy KZbin suggested this to me! :D Love your sense of dry humour, which fits the format perfectly! Will lurk on more of your stuff!

[@Rhigitar]

Stick around, I'm trying to hammer out as many videos as possible in my freetime. Due to the amount of editing and the time it takes to get a script together (that I don't entirely redo the next day...) I think I'll be able to get 1 video out every 2 weeks.

[@cheesegaming3126]

Me who also has resting face syndrome: *Maybe I am an Au Ra*

[@BroadwayRonMexico]

Aside from "Ozbeg" mentioned in the video, I've seen "Onogur" appear as a randomized Xaela name. So that means Old Turkic names would likely also be lore friendly for them. Lots of Turkic Khans with cool-sounding names over the centuries

[@sizliz]

Awesome video, very nice and digestible, I've been reading up on Au Ra lore for a long while now and it makes it so much more interesting to play the race! I play a Haragin, which means he's a coastal boy whose ancestors were sailors and sea faring explorers. It's fun to learn about the different tribes, they're so colorful and different and the character creation gets a whole new layer with it!

[@aftertone3146]

I notice that many Xaela are like blue-skinned but I ended up makng mine as light skinned as an reg asian woman so I find that funny. I also find funny that her name isn't like any Aura name, combined with how I saw 0 Aura NPC until Yugiri in ARR I decided to make up the headcanon that my Ellyn was just plain adopted lmao

[@freeaaaky9336]

Good shit, keep feeding me with your content ecksdee

[@joekupec7893]

See a list of Xaela names Me: I'll go with Kala Blooddrunk Lore nerds: No that's not how it works! Me: THaT's noT HoW It wORks!

[@RavenAstralis]

Long live the Au Ra's tsssssss 🦎🦎

[@Yamidoragon]

This channel needs more subs

[@ducksama8558]

I am playing a dragoon Xaela Male named Torrin Norixus, and I've had Covid-19, so I can confirm both leave you with no taste.

[@Artemisaobscura]

Xaela live the real life FEASTING , FIGHTING AND DRINKING

[@redmageteige]

Great video!

[@SolDizZo]

If all I had to go on about the Au Ra was the Zela portions, I would reroll tomorrow. But I'm quite content with my Raen character. Maybe I'm an isolationist, but I certainly didn't expect to mesh this well.

[@BroadwayRonMexico]

Not all of the Raen are isolationists. A lot of the Doman ones and most of the Hingan ones are pretty integrated in the societies there and arent culturally much (if at all) different from the Hyur around them. Particularly, a lot of Ninjas that serve the nobility are Raen because Au Ra horns give them better senses in the dark

[@cutecats532]

I'm an Au Ra Xaela and tried to research the names I liked from the generators. I liked the sound of Malaguld and Torgud but could only find out about the Malaguld tribe. What I saw about that tribe looked good. Might have to go read more on some of these others.... cool video and I'm clearly interested in the culture so I think it's a good fit for me. 😂

[@rinnnnnnnnnnrinRinOnishi]

Wait. I just noticed avatar the last airbender and the boondocks have the same animation style,nice

[@dr.merlot1532]

The female aura are the cutest.

[@DirtyWeeb]

It was funny playing through Heavansward as an Au Ra Dragoon knowing some of the history between the two groups.

[@lilrockstar8170]

I'm a Xaela and wow....my culture is WEIRD

[@Rhigitar]

The Xaela cultures are great. Wanna have a lore reason to run around naked all the time? Be part of the Torgud tribe. Wanna collect poop for a living? Be part of the Bolir tribe. Wann tell your husband to go make you a sandwich and not to come outside? Be part of the Dazkar tribe.

[@lilrockstar8170]

@@Rhigitar that's amazing

[@changyang1498]

Damn imagine being so bad at navigating that you literally land in the lands that hates you and will actively hunt you.

[@ToastyFruitcake]

They would have sailed round the back of the world/sailed east from their country to end up in Ishgard, surely? Really enjoying the fun atmosphere in your videos dude, getting a nice mocumentary/monty python vibe from the presentation!

[@Rhigitar]

They can't... at least not as easily as the continent of the New World/Mamook is in the way... And it's HUUUGE. If you look at around 1min 05secs in my Mamool Ja video you'll see what the New World continent looks like compared to Eorzea. (The picture is the texture of the planet from the game files, so that's actually what it looks like. You can sometimes see the continent while standing on the moon.)

[@wolflithay6380]

I love that I chose Raen because in Okami my favorite part was going to the dragonian’s castle under the sea! And the dungeon there was SO COOL OMG

[@pamkozlowski7170]

Fun stuff my man

[@bonefetcherbrimley7740]

Thanks Rhigitar. I am trying Final Fantasy, and I made an Au-ra.

[@weissschnee6363]

iirc the reason why that migrating au'ra tribe attempted to migrate to coerthas is because before the 7th umbral calamity the region would've closely resembled the steppe before it froze over! unfortunate the ishgardians were there first lol

[@Rhigitar]

Sorta. The main reason is that they were fleeing the Garlean occupation. I actually made a mistake in that segment of the video as to how long ago it was. Those Xaela migrated roughly 10 years before the Seventh Umbral Calamity... and the Seventh Umbral Era was only about 5 years long (something I often forget)... Sooo still relatively recent history all things considered. There's even a certain character who lives in Ishgard that remembers this massacre and shaped him into what he is. Hint: The tribe that was massacred was the Orl tribe.

[@Crawver]

What's the lore behind the Au ra that seem to want to become birds? I'm not sure why, but I have only ever seen people use the vanu gear as male Au ra, and only as tanks as well. They're not common, but I have seen it enough now for me to feel that it is a minor trend, that certain male au ra want to be able to fly so that they can claim the sky as their own, and not just the land.

[@BroadwayRonMexico]

Probably some of the Xaelas' veneration of Yols which we see a bit of in the Azim Steppe

[@BlueV205]

This video made me want to create an Au Ra alt because I'm too poor to buy a Fantasia.

[@Epyon566]

Those handlebars look like they'd snap off with the tiniest amount of pressure though.

[@laurabea660]

This was a great video! Thank you!

[@spartan8layer493]

I didn't even know all the tribes had unique characteristics, so I guess it's a good thing I randomly picked Iriq, they seem pretty nice.

[@rinnnnnnnnnnrinRinOnishi]

I'd really like more playable beast races like hrothgar. Kinda annoyed that theres mostly humanoid races and a single beast race

[@rinnnnnnnnnnrinRinOnishi]

But I'm all good and dandy with au ra for now :3

[@Someone-dv7hw]

It would be fun if if they would adapt the actual beast tribes as playable races... but then again they would have to rewrite basically the whole story for that so it's not going to happen

[@midgetydeath]

Only once they make the Hrothgar stand upright instead of that annoying slouch. And change their run to not be like some sort of cartoon villain.

[@BroadwayRonMexico]

Both Roegadyn (by way of FFXI Galka) and Au Ra have their earliest concept art as having been beast races, essentially. Galka were initially conceived as being lion men (not too far off from Hrothgar, funny enough), and the first concept art for Au Ra had them looking like Argonians from Elder Scrolls (which Im assuming got scrapped because armor would have been nightmarish). Missed opportunity there

[@jamelioful]

Great video.. seen a few and all have been great, keep it up🤣💯

[@dracopo8862]

I'm very curious about Hyurs. Usually in fantasy it is never explained why, in a world full of "mixed race" that have the same intelligence of human s plus better physical traits, humans were able to survive natural selection. Like, if there are races that are basically "hyurs but better", how come humans managed to survive?

[@Rhigitar]

I'm planning on doing a Hyur video soon(ish), but here's the super short summary of it: Adaptability. None of the other races are as adaptable and malleable as the Hyur. When the other races find a solution to a problem, a Hyur has already found 10 and tried another 5. They're able to understand, adopt, and integrate into other cultures very quickly... Then also find solutions to problems that culture faces thus molding it themselves. The other races all have one or two different (general) cultural heritages. The Hyur have thousands. This, coupled with that fact that they are the perfect jack-of-all-trades, makes them the second best race at nearly everything.

[@ItsBoyRed]

just because there are "better" races or evolutions does not mean the previews generations will go extint, look at humans and monkeys, we still have those.

[@dracopo8862]

@@ItsBoyRed considering we don't descent from apes but we only have one common ancestor your example doesn't make sense. The situation is more akin to Sapiens and Neanderthals, 2 races of the same species that coexisted for a brief period of time, and we all know what happened to Neanderthals.

[@ItsBoyRed]

@@dracopo8862 aight didn't know you read up on it beforehand

[@lacdirk]

@@dracopo8862 Actually, we don't know what happened to Neanderthals, except that they interbred with the other species, which has led to recognisable neanderthal DNA in European humans. Crucially, though, they did coexist with other human races for thousands of years.

[@mikaidev]

Mate are you a fellow South African? Great video!

[@Rhigitar]

I may have lived there for the majority of my life...

[@JigokuChou]

Doing a lore speedrun before first FF rpg tabletop session, had to put you on 1.5 for decent tempo

[@DavidELD]

Wait for it... The Xaela... Queue Xaela-tage!" *Mongol-tage intensifies*

[@Demonologist013]

Me a Xaela dragoon. Interesting

[@DragonRage61]

The Au Ra are awesome!

[@ShxpxRok]

Goes to Raen: Gimme those cheeks! Goes to Xeala: gimme those cheeks! Imma take dem cheeks!

[@Someone-dv7hw]

So we're assuming the earth is flat? Because as far as I'm concerned, when I'm looking at the world map... they could have crossed the (pacific-like) ocean. Well even then they must have either missed La Noscea or landed in Dravania

[@Rhigitar]

Naw, the planet is round. There is actually another continent to the West of Eorzea/East of Orthard. "New World". We don't know much about this continent though... We don't know its size nor the shape... But we do know Blue Magic comes from there! There's a chance that going East from Orthard would still be slower due to this continent being in the way. Fun Fact: there's also a continent to the South of Eorzea. Meracydia.

[@Someone-dv7hw]

@@Rhigitar Ah ok that's interesting, thank you very much.

[@liddolwiddol]

I actually ended up loving this a lot. I think if I ever switch back to Au ra I'll come back to it!

[@J4nT3mpl4r]

Me: forgetting Xaela naming conventions when making my character Also me: shoot...um....my xaela learned about Viera name change tradition when they leave home and decided to come up with her own name when she left to go on her adventure? Also also me: screw it, maybe she was born outside the steppes.... I'll put a pin in it for later..... Also also also me: what if... My Xaela was born to an Au Ra father and Viera mother???🤔 Why are there five empty beers in front of me?

[@changyang1498]

I didn’t even realize that the au ra naming convention was based on Japanese. My name is just Cirina Gesi which honestly, sounded super cool considering I got it via the random button button.

[@TheNahnny]

Ok, nice. Now i can make my headcanons. :D

[@pluttennoneed5242]

Dude, your intro is legendary (L)

[@lilispoon369]

You forgot to mention the elephant people in the Azim Steppe that kill Au Ra for sport

[@snoozebutton9996]

My Husband chose to play a male Xaela Au Ra with resting bitch syndrom and loathes Limsa Lominsa as he has gotten whispers there and didnt like that.

[@fallinthequazar]

Thank you for the great video Ps: I didnt expect the horse part at all

[@___-___-___-___-]

no mention of the fact that they are definitely not dragons and probably the descendants of succubi? how do they wear earrings any ways if their horns are their ears? do they drill through their own horns or do they just tie earrings to their horns?

[@BroadwayRonMexico]

They arent related to succubi or demons/voidsent in any way (especially considering that voidsent didnt exist until the 13th was swallowed by the flood of darkness, and Au Ra/Dran were already around). That was just a design motif and inspiration they used when making the female concept art design that eventually became what we have for the race now. The first concept art associated with them though was of an explicitly draconic race, and only art of the males was made. They looked like Argonians with options that looked like either more spikes on the head, or the backward facing horn option that present female au ra have with their face 1

[@evescent7312]

Nice intro :D

[@Iymarra]

So 1:12 what headpiece and robe are they, please? The black horns aren't an aesthatician option, are they?

[@Rhigitar]

The horns are the Archaeodemon Horns. You can either find them in Eureka Pyros or off the marketboard. The chest piece is the YoRHa Type-53 Halfrobe of Casting. You can get it from the 24 person raid "The Puppets' Bunker".

[@Iymarra]

@@Rhigitar Thanks for that!

[@lukethegamingkiwi662]

I would describe Au Ra as Repto-mammals think Tauntaun from Star Wars a creature that exhibits traits of both Mammals and Reptiles

[@BroadwayRonMexico]

Aside from scales, they don't really have any reptilian traits. And both armadillos and pangolins have scales as well, so it's not even an exclusively reptile trait

[@TotoTheBest91]

Hrothgar next pls :D

[@rockman2450]

I would love to see that XD

[@blushingralseiuwu2222]

Yeah! Need more Hrothgar people in the game!

[@Hatfright]

Where's my people of Dhoro clan at? Oh right, we're avoiding contact with other tribes.

[@CryBlueofZ]

I wanted to have a Tail and Horns

[@sebastianrivera6976]

Au'ra supremacy!

[@바보Queen]

so all the beast humanoids came from the continent in the east?

[@ben_sisko2149]

Mmm roasted pangolin 🤤🤤

[@afewxhitposting]

I-I'm a pangolin...

[@LyviannaXIV]

Raen about Xaela: so uncivilised

[@jatohkira3059]

It's so sad I can't have ingame horse baby making :(

[@jocaomelhor]

wut

[@lestatstaton7856]

Alright, Im 2 min in and Im gonna go watch an actual lore video and come back. Because I actually want to know the lore, but this is also funny :)

[@Kravenrogue]

8:24, you Said that The Spelling of The name would be exactly like in The Latin, but in your example you used Yugiri, and you pronounced The GI like GUI, when in most latin descendents languages that GI would be pronounced JEE, you used The Anglo-Saxon Style in that, like in English or German, in languages that derive From Latin like Italian, Spanish, Portuguese we would say JEE

[@Rhigitar]

All those languages use the Latin alphabet. As apposed to Cyrillic, Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, etc. Yes English isn't a Latin root language, it's a Germanic language, but it uses the Latin alphabet. The example given was Hepburn romanization to English. Because the guy who invented Hepburning Japanese (James Curtis Hepburn) was an American who spoke English... So that's what he based it on.

[@Kravenrogue]

@@Rhigitar Yeah, they use The Roman Alphabet too, because Rome had conquered and influenced those regions like England, but they had also many other influences, some words came From Germanic, and some come From Latin too, but they pronounce The words Very different, like something simply as "En nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti." They pronounce Very different From What most of "Latin" languages would, even Thou they use The same Alphabet and similar Grammatical Rules And From What I've seem, some words in Japanese are pronounced more similar How an "Latin" language would, like Samurai, or Karate, in Anglo-Saxon-Germanic languages they pronounced The R in Samurai or Karate different From How a Japanese would, but If You ask a Latin Speaker to pronounce those same words they would pronounce more close to What is The "Correct" Japanese way

[@Kravenrogue]

@@Rhigitar even in FF universe, The Race Au Ra, The "Ra" would be pronounced different in Japanese and Latin, in Anglo-Saxon Languages they Have a "Round" R, in The others is vibrating The "R" Sound, similar to The cliche Russian "R" speaking I Hope you Could understand What I mean, I dont know How I Could say What I mean, is difficult without Speaking, and Just writing lol And I am not an Native English Speaker too

[@Rhigitar]

@@Kravenrogue That's all fine and good, but I'm sorry, as I have no idea where you're going with your point. It doesn't matter at all how Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, etc. use the Latin alphabet. Nor does it matter how the languages came to use the Latin Alphabet. Because none of that has any bearing on Hepburning Japanese. All I was saying there is that the Raen Au Ra names are created in the exact same way as to how James Curtis Hepburn translated Japanese to English. They would write the words so that when an English speaking person says it out loud, it would sound as close to the correct Japanese pronunciation as possible. This video is made with the English translation of the game in mind. I probably should've said "Latin alphabet as used by English", but I figured that was unnecessary since the video is in English. I have zero clue how the names are translated in other language settings. Technically, if they're following Hepburn translations, (which I don't think they do) the names would be spelt differently for the translations to make sure they are said in the same way.

[@Oreochan42]

Im glad i named my female lizard girl Oreo hahaha

[@jhart6764]

I got a generated name of BANJO! WHAT THE HELL IS THAT TRYING TO SAY!

[@riomausagi]

how can i change my race ? im new :D

[@Rhigitar]

If you've yet to beat the A Realm Reborn main story, you'll get 1 "Fantasia" bottle after you beat the final dungeon (level 50, called "The Praetorium") Beyond that, the only way is to buy one with real money (store.finalfantasyxiv.com/ffxivstore/en-us/category/6) You can change small features (hair and such) by using the aesthetician though!

[@donflamingo5685]

Not gonna lie. I Thought au ra was just one character and all the different people I saw for it were actually just that same character with different personalities. Cuz au ra made me think aura and they were changing colors.

[@arthurdowney2846]

Handle Bars XD

[@vegandragonmaster2242]

I play a au ra Raen , and a elezen Wildwood

[@Kylar195]

My Charakter is a male Au Ra from the Goro Tribe. Well, now I know, that this tribe has a interesting tradition. 😅

[@BroadwayRonMexico]

Something something, "JRHNBR"

[@Bake-kurijra]

If I was an au ra my name would be Brutalies . I would be a female Xaela .and I would be part of no tribe I would wonder as a brutal wayvern like deviljho. And destroy anyone or anything that moves once moved living or non living . I would only befriend those who where worthy . And my weapon of choice . A giant sword as in as big as a human + 5 . So what do you think

[@Artemisaobscura]

That's dope but I think Brutailes wouldn't say no to a evening of tribe feasting

[@lordyellowman]

Papapapaapapapapapapapapa!

[@ziondavegaming5493]

Also, you forgot to put twitter account for fem au ra screenshot

[@gideonyunkura5216]

Mongolian horn people.

[@charlespwnage5435]

It's like the argonians and kahjiits in elder scrolls lol

[@NytingGayle]

Why do the males run like Crash Bandicoot?

[@sizliz]

They bouncy

[@krolltheknight]

My Xaela is of the Salazam clan. Meaning Silverscale and are very rare sight. Snow white skin, long silvered hair, and eyes of fire. Solitary creatures with an intimidating presence but are pure of heart and often the humblest of Au Ra. Ages ago they ruled in a snowy mountain kingdom that has since crumbled to dust with no evidence of this royalty remaining besides name alone.

[@bugmilk9182]

ahh yes an official groomer race

[@Alchristis]

Lol nice

[@hippotippo3159]

Hrothgar lore when 😳

[@Rhigitar]

Unfortunately (fortunately?) the next video has been recorded and I've started editing the thing today... I'm hoping to get it out by the end of this week. I've started planning out the one after that too. Maybe then Hrothgar. I'm getting a few requests for that one sooner rather than later.

[@hippotippo3159]

@@Rhigitar I look forward to your next video!

[@SeaSerpentLevi]

LOL

[@sawyer3244]

5:45 I can't xD I'm still laughing... I can see why I picked this race