Quote Originally Posted by Gwenorai View Post
That's just as much speculation as what I was doing. Lore is lore, they can't justify 'this' when the male miqo'te were also in the same boat with similar abysmal numbers. The 5% I got wasn't from tactics or FF12 - it was from the latest encyclopedia of Eorzea; this was Yoshida's 'domain' so to speak.
Let me rephrase: What possible reason would they have to create the lore that male Viera are incredibly few in number and never leave the forest, while they're simultaneously working on creating Viera as a playable race?

The case with Mi'qote is a perfect example. They created the lore that males were few in number and never went out as a justification to not make them playable. It was only much later that they had to adjust the lore in order to make male Mi'qote adventurers make sense. So for male Viera, why would they create lore they know that they'll instantly have to change?