Quote Originally Posted by Khaoticsuccubus View Post
If it's like Highlanders to Midlanders isn't that the same as just making a whole new race then? Highlanders, from a development view is basically that already. They have a unique skeleton, animations, faces, hairstyles, etc.

If they went through the trouble of doing all that why not just make it its own race? I mean, I guess I don't really need a 2nd tribe but, just seems weird. Course I think the fact that highlander is pretty much its own race is weird as well lol.
It's mostly so that it feels natural when they're added into FFXIV. Expanding on what already exists is better than plopping something into FFXIV and no, you cannot use the Ivalice raid as a way for the Viera race to be introduced as a playable race (it wouldn't make sense for a newbie to start off as a Viera, when they technically shouldn't exist until after they do the Ivalice raid. This is assuming the Ivalice raid is the Ivalice with Viera, Bangaa, Nu Mou, etc).

The only time Viera can naturally be introduced to FFXIV is 6.0. They can be introduced in 5.0 if SE shows some Viera within the Garlean army throughout 4.0. If not, then 6.0 is the only way (New World, new lore, potentially new starting point for the new race that has you eventually go to ARR zones. Imagine if the Au Ra came out in 4.0 and their starting point was in Othard and you eventually go to ARR zones when you unlock airships. That would feel less jarring than their HW introduction).