So what is a Hrothgar?

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Except that we have development concept art of male Viera released in 2015, two years after that statement, along with a bug (the one that prompted this thread) that showed conditional statements in the code for male/female Viera player characters six years after that statement was made. Oh, and a multi-paragraph lore dump from an NPC going into large amount of detail about the lifestyles of male Viera and there place in Viera society in late 2018. So we have seen quite a bit of development resources - from concept artists to lore writers to programmers to the translation teams - engaged in work relating to developing male Viera in game in the six years since that interview.

So Occam's Razor in this case would be that having invested a considerable amount of development resources over the years for including male Viera in the game that likely the Viera are not gender locked and if that is the case the Hrothgar are probably not gender locked either. Remember that bug showed there were conditional statements for male and female Hrothgar too.

The lore stresses how incredibly rare male Viera are, far moreso than miqote, and Yoshi's answer was to read the lore.

I wouldn't say a couple pieces of concept art qualify as a 'considerable amount of development resources', when we've just had a Q&A with a character designer who said they reject dozens of concepts before finalizing one.

You think TWO full races is the more likely reality?