Gender locked race?

[Karl0217]

Yeah that concept art that showed about 5 drastically different designs? So which design should it be? Especially when even the female designs shown after heavensward came out were scrapped, with only one being kind of close to what we ultimately got.

It is isn't just the concept art we got though. The bug that caused us to know about the Hrothgar also showed conditional if/else statements in the code that changed NPC dialog depending on whither the player character was a male or female Viera. There were text options for both “la belle Viera” and “le beau Viera” and this is some four years after the production of that concept art. In addition, we have an NPC giving us a multi-paragraph lore dump on the lives of male Viera and their place in Viera society in game patch 4.5. So we have evidence that the concept artists, lore writers, programmers and the translation teams did work concerning male Viera.