Gender locked race?

[Kupocoubo]

If the Lion race thing is real and is male-only, it's going to need to absolutely blow people out of the water with how amazing it is if SE wants to stand any chance of avoiding the backlash of female-only Viera.

Given that the Lion race is something no one asked for, and male Viera is something that people have been looking forward to for years, I don't think it's remotely possible for Lion race hype to outweigh Viera disappointment.

It will be ugly male Ronso and sexy female Vieras... My god...

[briarth0rn]

If it's the other theory, that we're going to get another race that's male only... Can it be anything other than Garlean?

Garleans make no sense as a player race. Lore-wise, they're defined by their inability to use aether... Which is something literally every job in the game needs to do to function. Practically speaking, they don't really have a unique character model, either. Garlean NPCs always use other races bodies (like Elezen) with unique heads, or a 100% character-unique model.

[Senn]

Saving this. There is absolutely no logical reason for them to delay the announcement of male Viera, so the "best" case scenario is that they're just woefully incompetent.

idk but there was word of another version of viera that would be shorter, and those weren't shown either. I don't think we've had two different sub-groups of a race since hyur - midlander and highlanders. If there really are going to be two sub-groups of viera, along with male viera, then I could understand why they are saving that reveal for a different fanfest.

I'm gonna guess the short version will look somewhat like this

[Crushnight]

Lets wait for tomorrow Q&A time that question will be the million dollar question worry not tomorrow you will take your doubt.
Honestly they have so much consideration for the players opinions and many have expressed they want to play Viera male, seriously no joke I doubt that won't be male gender for Viera.

Tokyo Fan Fest will have Male Viera info

Now can we put the pitchforks down until After Tokyo fan fest?

1st ty for linking that 2nd all this tells me is i have to wait 1 month and 20 days for them to reveal why males were not in any promotional material for Viera. They keep dancing around this issue creating unrest in their community for no reason it is stupid how they have gone about this and it will harm them more because if they reveal no males then the backlash be much bigger than now if they reveal males are playable they have no reason not to try an tease us with a joke or something everything seems wrong

[xbahax92]

Do we have actually any hint or lore for a lion race? Any sidequest, sidestory, lore books? Anything?

[LadyKairi]

People seem to forget that Yoshida is a troll. He loves withholding certain information to watch people on the forums form speculations and freak out. People just need to chill and wait until AFTER the next fanfest and whatever live letters to start freaking out. So what if he didn’t say “there’s more to come” or point out why they only showed female? That’s the point. So people would start screaming “TRIGGERED THERES NO MALE” while they sit back and enjoy the show.

Regardless, I’m pretty sold on the leaks that happened a while back. Maybe viera IS gonna be gender locked and males will get their own race. Who knows? We sure don’t, so I’m saving my pitchfork for after we’ve gotten all of the information.

[ChaseNetwork]

Garleans make no sense as a player race. Lore-wise, they're defined by their inability to use aether... Which is something literally every job in the game needs to do to function. Practically speaking, they don't really have a unique character model, either. Garlean NPCs always use other races bodies (like Elezen) with unique heads, or a 100% character-unique model.

Lore-wise, they could have a dose of Resonant, and their ceruleum magitek equipment does magic for them. Treating that genetic lack of ability to use magic as a hindrance is really superficial now. However, I already reasoned out Garleans myself in that same quote you cherry picked due to being ridiculous as a male only race.

[Beckett]

Do we have actually any hint or lore for a lion race? Any sidequest, sidestory, lore books? Anything?

Nothing at all. The only info we have for a Lion race is the leaks from months ago. Those leaks have been incredibly accurate about a wide variety of subjects, so they're well worth paying attention to, but obviously nothing is set in stone until we get any sort of official word on the matter.

[Kupocoubo]

I swear if we get this over male bunny I will cry.
"you wanted more beards, we will give you hairy shoulders please be excited."

[MagiusNecros]

If male Viera were planned they would have shown a model.

And then we have official artwork promoting it like this.



Yeah seems genderlocked to me.

Furthermore it's just tall Hyur with rabbit ears tacked on. Oh boy oh joy.