Viera and Hrothgar clans detailed on official site

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Originally Posted by Bonbori

Oh gosh... What if they DO lay eggs? O.O

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Kill it with fire, before it lays eggs!
Actually there are mammals that live in a community where only one female reproduces. Naked mole rats. So now Hrothgar have become mole rats in my eyes :D

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Originally Posted by Senn

I've just been assuming hrothgar have very, very long life spans, so it wouldn't be that strange for one female hrothgar to have many children.

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Viera live for 400 years, I think, so it's not impossible that the Hrothgar have a similarly lengthy life span, if not longer or shorter.

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Originally Posted by Duskane

Also notice how Gunbreaker stance is a bit hunched over and the class originated from the Hrothgars a race that hunches over.

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i'm really bummed hrothgar are the ones who invented the gunbreaker :v i was under the impression it originiated in garlemald, and i think it would have been a fun tie in to our later conflict with them again. it could have gave us another garlean defector that could have taught us something we could have used against the empire... job quests could have been skirmishes with small contingents of garlean soldiers bent on getting their tech back, while still learning about the purpose of being a gunbreaker. (ignore me, i'm just story building and who knows what path the job quests will take with hrothgar gunbreaker.)

...but at the same time, i guess they had to give the hrothgar something.

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Originally Posted by killstein

i'm really bummed hrothgar are the ones who invented the gunbreaker :v i was under the impression it originiated in garlemald, and i think it would have been a fun tie in to our later conflict with them again. it could have gave us another garlean defector that could have taught us something we could have used against the empire... job quests could have been skirmishes with small contingents of garlean soldiers bent on getting their tech back, while still learning about the purpose of being a gunbreaker. (ignore me, i'm just story building and who knows what path the job quests will take with hrothgar gunbreaker.)

...but at the same time, i guess they had to give the hrothgar something.

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We were told back when the job was revealed that it had nothing to do with Garlean technology.

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Originally Posted by killstein

i'm really bummed hrothgar are the ones who invented the gunbreaker :v i was under the impression it originiated in garlemald, and i think it would have been a fun tie in to our later conflict with them again. it could have gave us another garlean defector that could have taught us something we could have used against the empire... job quests could have been skirmishes with small contingents of garlean soldiers bent on getting their tech back, while still learning about the purpose of being a gunbreaker. (ignore me, i'm just story building and who knows what path the job quests will take with hrothgar gunbreaker.)

...but at the same time, i guess they had to give the hrothgar something.

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Eh Yoshida was pretty clear on release that the garlean gunblade was completely different from the gunbreaker one, I was under the impression it'd be based more on Cid but I think tying it to Hrothgar is better to give it more distinction. My only confusion is why they seem more tribal/savage yet somehow able enough to make a working gun--blade---hybrid.

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Originally Posted by MrKimper

Eh Yoshida was pretty clear on release that the garlean gunblade was completely different from the gunbreaker one, I was under the impression it'd be based more on Cid but I think tying it to Hrothgar is better to give it more distinction. My only confusion is why they seem more tribal/savage yet somehow able enough to make a working gun--blade---hybrid.

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Well, for all we know, Hrothgar might only look savage. Their society could be just as sophisticated as any other. :v

The fact that Hrothgars are creators of Gunblade is also kind of Easter Egg, since Lion was one of the central figures in FF8 (Squall's last name is Leonhart; his ultimate gunblade named "Lion Heart"; he is Leo by zodiak; his ring, pendant and belt have lion head on it, not to mention Griever - lion looking GF, who is also depicted on Revolver, our first gunblade), and weapon design is noticeably based on this chapter.

I honestly love that they invented gun breaker
Unga in looks but galaxy brains

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Originally Posted by Duskane

I honestly love that they invented gun breaker
Unga in looks but galaxy brains

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Magitek viking cat men is a great concept for a race, and honestly makes me want to play one.

The lore sounds very similar to miquote and why they were female only in 1.0. Hopefully that means we get both genders soon

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Originally Posted by NessaWyvern

Kill it with fire, before it lays eggs!
Actually there are mammals that live in a community where only one female reproduces. Naked mole rats. So now Hrothgar have become mole rats in my eyes :D

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So what you're saying is....Hrothgar and Moogles are distant cousins!

We got a cute cat, dragon and now bunny race.
Can we get our cute dog race?

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Originally Posted by NessaWyvern

Kill it with fire, before it lays eggs!
Actually there are mammals that live in a community where only one female reproduces. Naked mole rats. So now Hrothgar have become mole rats in my eyes :D

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Someone on the dev team is a big shinsekai yori fan I guess lol...

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Originally Posted by MrKimper

Eh Yoshida was pretty clear on release that the garlean gunblade was completely different from the gunbreaker one, I was under the impression it'd be based more on Cid but I think tying it to Hrothgar is better to give it more distinction. My only confusion is why they seem more tribal/savage yet somehow able enough to make a working gun--blade---hybrid.

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Well I mean even a beast tribe can make an airship.

Unlike Viera, they don't seem to be mostly isolated race tho. So, some of them might be scholars or engineers, educated in Sharlayan or other city states.
Miqo'te and Au Ra also look tribal, but we know there are Miqo'te and Au Ra scholars.

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Originally Posted by Fland

Well I mean even a beast tribe can make an airship.

Unlike Viera, they don't seem to be mostly isolated race tho. So, some of them might be scholars or engineers, educated in Sharlayan or other city states.
Miqo'te and Au Ra also look tribal, but we know there are Miqo'te and Au Ra scholars.

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Yeah, it makes me interested to see what the rest of the culture looks like comparatively, I'm holding out hope that they were somehow subjugated by garleans and forced to regress technologically and the GB quest has something to do with that, though I completely expect it not to and instead focus on GB Ronso on the first shard.

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Originally Posted by MrKimper

Eh Yoshida was pretty clear on release that the garlean gunblade was completely different from the gunbreaker one, I was under the impression it'd be based more on Cid but I think tying it to Hrothgar is better to give it more distinction. My only confusion is why they seem more tribal/savage yet somehow able enough to make a working gun--blade---hybrid.

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It's not a very deep thought, so it needs more details added, but I was thinking that they found they could use magic to vibrate materials to cut from the mountain. More specifically thinking they found they could vibrate their own claws with magic to cut deeper, perhaps as a near natural response (like real life cats can retract their claws). This lead to finding they could apply vibrations to other items, to mine or better battle (normal sword), but that this was rather draining activity to both physically and magically attune at a single time. From there they learned from others around them that guns could be perfect containment system for the vibration (magic ammo, storing energy for later) and that a sword being a great delivery of the vibrations- like a very long claw that they don't have to worry about if it breaks (don't break your own claws lol).

So from some appropriation of nearby technologies and natural talent (sharp claws coming from infusing vibrating magic to it) they made the gunblade. Meaning they're not a race of super advance techno-cats, but still clearly intelligent and adaptable (now they picked up the common-tongue the world has to be-careful of them appropriating quickly and then advancing past them ;)).

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Originally Posted by Lacan

So Hrothgar females do exist, they're just rare. :v How convenient.

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It's the same excuse they used for Mithra males.

I mean, I doubt square is creative enough to think of a means of reproduction without a male and female so it makes sense.

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Originally Posted by FoxyAreku

It's the same excuse they used for Mithra males.

I mean, I doubt square is creative enough to think of a means of reproduction without a male and female so it makes sense.

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The Anata wave hi.

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Originally Posted by SannaR

The Anata wave hi.

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Isn't there nothing on how ananta reproduce or does lackshimi just sprinkle them into existence.

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Originally Posted by Duskane

Isn't there nothing on how ananta reproduce or does lackshimi just sprinkle them into existence.

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In the myth part for them in the 2nd lore book it says she sculpt them outta clay in her likeness kinda of like one of Wonder Woman's origin stories. I'm not sure if it's ever explained how broodmothers give birth to their daughters, but I'm sure whatever magic they use to transmute things into gold might play a part. At any rate they're the only mono gendered race we know of.