Gender locked race?

[Rokke]

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?

I interpret it as the Dramaturge has no idea what big shakeup is going to happen between now and 5.0 that causes us to travel to Dalmasca or become the WoD. Despite the game existing for the most part inside a time bubble theres a few points where logically X happens before Y. Logically we met Fran and became aware of her branch of the resistance and the dramaturge tells us what we know so far about Viera pre 5.0 in the same vein that logically the lv 30-50 DRG quests take place before Heavensward.

The devs have all but spelled it out that we're going to be able to visit Viera settlements at some point in the expansion, but if the guys are as trigger happy as the current lore says they are, we shouldn't be able to do so. I think something big is going to happen between 4.56 and 5.0 that'll give some wiggle room for both us to play as Viera and for us to make it to bunnyville.

@ Ronso -
The fact that Yoshi didn't wear or say any hints towards "lions" on day 2 leads me to believe that we're not getting a 2nd race. We're 50ish days out from the final fanfest with zero nods in-game or out of game to Ronso being a part of the expac.

[Beckett]

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I absolutely love the theory that there will be some big story shake up, along with the theory of male Viera being based on Lionrabbits. I desperately want it to be true that we're getting male Viera, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

[Rokke]

I absolutely love the theory that there will be some big story shake up, along with the theory of male Viera being based on Lionrabbits. I desperately want it to be true that we're getting male Viera, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

I was worried until day 2 of the event. No Ronso hints + Yoshi being cheeky about Viera all but sealed it for me. What they’ll look like is anyones guess since the only physical descriptions we can use to try to imagine them are “some are pale and some are not”, “they’re fierce warriors”, and “puberty makes them obviously different from the girls in some manner” + blufever's lion avatar, but Im pretty confident we're getting them now now ^^