Quote Originally Posted by saber_alter View Post
dev teams are liable to change their game-lore at will. retconning has and always will be a thing.
They haven't retconned anything in XIV as far as I'm concerned.(A case can be made with a certain Lalafell). But as far as introduction of Viera, they can always change a few features and call them something else to avoid them clashing with Ivalice's lore. They've done something similar already with XI(Looking at you Roe and Lalafell).