Quote Originally Posted by Karl0217 View Post
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.
This isn't a hard confirmation because such things can exist for the sake of keeping the code consistent to prevent other issues down the line. Without seeing how other gender coding works for restricting gender locked clothes etc, it may be necessary for both gender coding to exist even if only one will be used. It provides evidence that it may not be genderlocked, but it's hard from an actual confirmation.

That NPC giving us lore about male viera also uses very strong language pointing to their exclusion rather than inclusion. Statements such as "don't go looking for them, you'll just end up disappointed" and "to us, they simply do not exist to us" paint a pretty strong picture against them, regardless of fluff about their role in viera society.