History Characters / FinalFantasyXIVPlayableRaces

''Other Realms'': [[Characters/FinalFantasyXIVTheVoid The Void]] | [[Characters/FinalFantasyXIVTheFirst The First]] | [[Characters/FinalFantasyXIVUltimaThule Ultima Thule]]\\

* {{Stripperific}}: The female viera starting gear, taken from Fran's iconic look, leaves very little to the imagination. The males' racial outfit also [[BareYourMidriff highlights their abdomens]].

** Miqo'te: Their facial features are more human-like, though a few can appear more or less cat-like like the Mithras.

* {{Expy}}: To the Ronso from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', another burly leonine race which Hrothgar share certain physical similarities with, like the Ronso horns (which are a customization option for certain Hrothgar faces). The Ronso are also the namesake for their AlternateUniverse counterparts on the First.

''Antagonists'': [[Characters/FinalFantasyXIVAscians Ascians]] ([[Characters/FinalFantasyXIVEmetSelch Emet-Selch]]) | [[Characters/FinalFantasyXIVGarleanEmpire Garlean Empire]] ([[Characters/FinalFantasyXIVZenosYaeGalvus Zenos yae Galvus]] | [[Characters/FinalFantasyXIVBozjanGarleans Bozjan Garleans]]) | [[Characters/FinalFantasyXIVPrimals Primals]] | [[Characters/FinalFantasyXIVRaidAntagonists Raid Antagonists]] | [[Characters/FinalFantasyXIVAntagonists Other Antagonists]]\\

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: A number of Lalafell have a habit of elucidating their thoughts with extensive amounts of alliteration. None more so than Wawalago, the flirtatious and frequently absent guildmaster of the Fishers' Guild who rarely responds in any other fashion.

* VagueAge: Due to looking childlike and dwarfish for their lifetime, there's no easy way to tell how old one is by just looking at one(although men past a certain age can grow facial hair). This is evident in a sidequest in Ul'dah, where you do meet a Lalafell explicitly said to be a child, and they look just like any of the many adult Lalas you see elsewhere in the game. ''Endwalker'' introduces the first visibly old Lalafell in Professor Rurusha, who has a wrinkled face unlike any other Lalafell.

* TeensAreShort: As expected, Elezen kids are much smaller than adults. But you spend a good portion of ''Heavensward'' with the teen-aged Alphinaud and many adult Elezen NPCs, you may quickly note that he is roughly half the height of most adults. As Urianger notes, Elezen usually get a big growth spurt by the time they reach their twenties, but until then, young Elezen are as tall as your average Hyuran kid.

* ProportionalAging: Viera can live for hundreds of years, but take time to physically mature. Viera children don't develop their sexual characteristics until they're thirty-three years old.

* TeensAreShort: If you put the teen-aged Alphinaud next to Urianger, the former is noticeably half the latter's height. As Urianger notes, an Elezen gets a big growth spurt by the time they reach their twenties, but until then, young Elezen are as tall as your average Hyuran kid.

* DivergentCharacterEvolution: Hyur are the only race who's two subraces use a different skeleton for their in-game model, resulting in each having unique animations.

[[Characters/FinalFantasyXIVGarlondIronworks Garlond Ironworks]] | [[Characters/FinalFantasyXIVAllies Other Allies]] ([[Characters/FinalFantasyXIVGrahaTia G'raha Tia]])\\

[[Characters/FinalFantasyXIVAllies Other Allies]] ([[Characters/FinalFantasyXIVGrahaTia G'raha Tia]])\\

* EvilPoacher: Moonkeepers have this stereotype, and tend to be shunned by Gridania as a result of it. Though some still live by that lifestyle, the majority abide by the Trappers' League, which sets the guidelines on what can be legally hunted for trade.

* {{Expy}}: To the Galka of ''Final Fantasy XI''. However, the primary difference is that the Galka were a OneGenderRace of men who reproduced through a reincarnation system and had tails. Before "A Realm Reborn", players could only choose male Roegadyn, though even then female NPCs existed.

''Nations of Hydaelyn'': [[Characters/FinalFantasyXIVTheEorzeanAlliance The Eorzean Alliance]] | [[Characters/FinalFantasyXIVIshgardAndDravania Ishgard and Dravania]] | [[Characters/FinalFantasyXIVOthardAndHingashi Othard and Hingashi]] | [[Characters/FinalFantasyXIVSharlayanAndThavnair Sharlayan and Thavnair]]\\

* StereotypeFlip: While most of the races follow the stereotypes propagated about them there are some characters that follow this trope just like some players does things not really typical to the race they choose.

* InterspeciesRomance: There are multiple cases of this in the game like for example one character is a child between a Hyur woman and an Elezen man or a Miqo'te who perhaps has Hyur ancestry. Though this practice is still frowned upon among people. A Hyur and Miqo'te couple in the Wanderer's Palace quests got cast out of their respective homes for being an interracial pair.

** The Ishgardian Elezen of Holy See of Ishgard are a more religiously pious take on high elves. ''Heavensward'' also reveals that [[spoiler:they have dragon's blood running through their veins, allowing them to mutate into dragons under the right circumstances.]]

* VagueAge: Due to looking childlike and dwarfish for their lifetime, there's no easy way to tell how old one is by just looking at one. ''Endwalker'' introduces the first visibly old Lalafell in Professor Rurusha, who has a wrinkled face unlike any other Lalafell.

* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: While Highlanders are found in many other places in the world, they are primarily associated with the nation of Ala Mhigo, which prior to its fall had a proud warrior culture and worshipped the god Rhalgr the Destroyer.

** In a more literal case in-universe, what we call Elezen are called Elves in the First.
* LongLived: {{Downplayed}}. On average, Elezen can live for an extra ten or twenty years longer than other races save the Viera.
* NoodlePeople: The Elezen are long limbed and have this sort of stance to set them apart from the other races.

* HeroicBuild: Roegadyn have big muscular builds and have a history of being powerful warriors. The male Roegadyn in particularly have big bulky bodies that makes a male Highlander Hyur pale in comparison.

* AwesomeMcCoolname: Some of the surnames the Gyr Abanian Higlanders possess can sound violent or simply intimidating, being rooted in epithets and monikers gained from their ancestors who fought in the war-torn battlefields of Gyr Abania, before the formation of Ala Mhigo. Some examples include Mylla Swordsong from the Gladiators' Guild, and Gerolt Blackthorn, the UltimateBlacksmith of Eorzea.