Gender locked race?

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Found a picture of where Ronso are supposed to live. Mt. Gagazet is a frozen mountain. Wouldn't it have made more sense to introduce a fur-covered race in Heavensward where we had zones like these? I can't imagine anything resembling Ronso surviving in the desert castle area with the crystal wave we've seen in art, nor in the faerie land.

You probably shouldn't have bothered because that whole post is a mess. For one, nobody genuinely thinks legit Ronso are coming. It was never named by any leak and the closest we have is some relation to a Lion for a potential new race. Two, Au Ra made so much sense coming in Heavensward right? What with all their Far Eastern history and flair just being so important to Ishgard and their thousand year war with the dragons. Oh wait....

Three, you must know nothing about Eorzea geography to act like Isghard is the only place with any kind of cold mountains. Ilsabard and Othard are connected by a huge mountainous region, with the Garlean Empire unable to adequately siege the nation of Dalmasca until it's airships were advanced enough to bypass the mountain ranges. Or how about north of the Steppes in Othard? Past the Tail Mountains is an area we've never traveled to, the Dalvalan Grath, described as a wasteland with the cold sea north of it labeled The Blindfrost that also borders eastern Ilsabard. Or, since we're taking the fight to the Empire to a degree, the lands of Ilsabard are known to be very inhospitable, separated by a great mountain range cutting off the more welcoming weather of the south with a frigid and harsh north.

There's certainly no way a harsh group of beings couldn't be found somewhere in all those regions that are acclimated to such locales. It's certainly not where we're likely to encounter the dwarves or anything, surely... /s

I can't confirm his claim that they live in different woods, but I can say that the wiki states that the men just live separately from the women, in 12. It's vague enough to assume you have no reason to run into them in 12 when you're in a village for the females rather than males. But in 14, the lore explicitly states they're from the same tribes but are starkly defenders. If this is the case, why wouldn't a male Viera show up to stop us from entering? Why set this specific lore up unless it was for one of them to show up? Otherwise, they could have just repeated the lore with different wording and said the males heck off into other parts of the jungle to do their own stuff. Sure, it's no confirmation, but I would argue this is one of the hints Yoshida was mentioning.

Yet everything claims they just live in the Golmore jungle, so still nothing to support Viera in ff12 live in some completely separate jungles, just different parts of the same massive woods.

You assume we're going to see the entirety of where the Viera live which may certainly not be the case, we rarely get to explore every inch of the lands we go to. You also assume there won't be anything that could possibly cause the male viera to make themselves even more scarce. If we are having to go into the woods to do our Hero thing, then the people in those woods are likely in dire straights. We rarely go to places just for sightseeing. So it could very well be the majority or all of the males are either off at a different front doing their job as defenders, while we come in and help elsewhere because they don't have enough manpower. Or they could have been gathered to defend their woods, and then wiped out, it's not like there hasn't been a major plot point of a powerful chemical weapon the Empire makes and uses that would be perfect for wiping out guerilla fighters in a densely packed forest/jungle.