Viera Race "Confirmed" for 5.0! Are you gonna change races?

[Ariane]

To "add" to this: I started the Ivalice-quest today and one of the NPCs will tell you a bit about Viera-lore - specially mentioning two clanes (*hint* *hint*) and going on about male Viera in length. The lore they've already established for male Viera this way allows them to go on adventures without much trouble (they're basically doing that by default - in essence: the male Viera are living out in the forest, fighting any intruders and such and only return to the villages every 3-5 years to father new children and take the young males with them to mentor them).

Despite the obvious of them not adding genderlocked races again after going through the trouble of adding FemRoes and male cats, they also seemed to have established a lore that allows for male Viera to go on adventures without breaking any "rules".

That NPC also tells you has never seen a male viera over years being around the area, and that's he's never heard of one living the city either. Then plus you have the leaker saying there is two races, which doesn't seem possible unless they are gender locked. Then now, we see even Yoshi-P in the past saying he don't like male viera and that if they do viera, they might do a separate race for the males. The only good sign male viera might happen is the fanfest points to only one race and will probably be the last, which then makes the leaker wrong.

One thing I've thought about is maybe what it is there is male viera but they are so beastly that look extremely different than female viera to the point they may as well be a different race. You might as well say they aren't really viera. This would fit with Yoshi-P comments on not liking the male viera, and that he thought the concept art of them was too cute and not beastly enough. This would also explain why the leaker thought he was looking at two races, but the fanfest points to only one. It could even explain why the NPCs think they never seen a male viera before. They had but they couldn't recognize them as viera with them being so different than the female viera.