So what is a Hrothgar?

[Wolfyboy]

Well, we also know it matches well with Blufever's leaks about two races, that the new race is Ronso-like, and that it is based on lions with his gamefaq profile showing a bunny and a lion.

[briarth0rn]

I just know that if Hrothgar are coming and they're similar to what most of us think they'll look like, Shadowbringers is going to spoil me. Two races that are tall and athletic in a single expansion? I'm in love. What did I do to deserve something so good?

[Melichoir]

The lore states that no non-Viera have ever spotted a male Viera.
It's be incredibly lore-breaking if the NPC is talking to a male Viera as he says that.

We don't know what the Rak'tika Greatwood is in relation to the Viera as a race. The current lore only mentions Golmore. It could be a fringe settlement of Viera completely unconnected to those of Golmore.

It's worth noting that the lore in FFXIV regarding Viera is in the Raid content, not the MSQ. So the average player may not even see that lore. Second, while lore says "Oh theyre rare", it doesnt say they dont exist and frankly it can be easily written that theyve come out of 'hiding', which woudl explain their increased numbers.

-FFXIV Stuff happens.
-Male Viera "Oh hey, maybe we should help do somethigna bout this." Comes otu of hiding en mass.
-In game NPCs "Oh look at these guys showing up! They were rare before but now theyre here cause plot reasons!"
- Game goes on and no one bats an eye about it after.

Also worth noting, teh current lore can be retconned to say "It used to be very rare a non Viera has seen a male Viera".

Anyways sorry for the aside.

[Tsumdere]

The lore states that no non-Viera have ever spotted a male Viera.
It's be incredibly lore-breaking if the NPC is talking to a male Viera as he says that.

We don't know what the Rak'tika Greatwood is in relation to the Viera as a race. The current lore only mentions Golmore. It could be a fringe settlement of Viera completely unconnected to those of Golmore.

No, they say that they are rare and so aggressive that if you have seen one, you are probably dead. They shoot outsiders on sight, that's why male Viera have never been seen, not because they are so rare seeing one is like winning the lottery. We know that 2 out of 10 Viera are male (aka 20%). We also know that Keepers of the Moon have similar numbers with their males with the only hard numbers being that only the biggest of Keeper families have 2-3 sons. It goes to reason that Keepers are more along the 10%-30% birth rate as well. And yet... *looks at your avatar*.

And, the game has never cared about giving you info dumps about your own race. I remember being a Duskwight and rolling my eyes as Foulques screamed in my face about how I would never understand the plight of his people, the Duskwight.

I swear to the twelve if one more person mentions gender-locked viera in this HROTHGAR THREAD....

Take it to the gender-locking thread. You have your own thread, USE IT!

You aren't the thread police, especially since the two topics are intertwined. I will be just as salty if Hrothgar are male only as I am that Viera might be female only. It's worth talking about since Hrothgar have a high chance of being subject to poorly written lore excuses to why there is only guys.

[Astarotha]

my gripe if theres 2 new races more than anything is im out of slots for alts

[Melichoir]

I felt another feline inspired race would be rather redundant even if it's much more beastly than Miqo but then I realized that one of my life's biggest crushes ever, looks like this:



And now I wouldn't mind that much.

I effing love Rei. His design is cool. Actually I tend to love a lot of BoF designs...Anyways If Ronso looked like that, I might phantasia to that.

Still want a female variant though.

[Dagget]

https://massivelyop.com/2019/02/15/w...d-explanation/

[Colino]

If it's a bunch of lions shouldn't they be called "Hrothgrawr"?

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Sorry I'll leave now.

[SigmaOZ]

Could be the Ronso everyone wanted, not that I'd be playing them!...

[Astarotha]

actually, what if hrothgar is there because you have to talk to someone during a mission where youre either glammed as one (lali-ho anyone?) or during an RP mission similar to the other 2 weve had in the last few patches?