Gender locked race?

[Karl0217]

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.

The thing is we have already seen them change these statements with the Au Ra; because French language rules dictate gender-neutral terms because of their name starting with an A. So we have seen how this coding works when there is only one gender option.

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.

No, the full sentence is "thread not in the woods with hopes of finding a male Viera, for you will be met with naught but disappointment...or worse, death." Because male Viera are both xenophobic and aggressive in the extreme and that they shoot outsiders on sight in Viera territory. Oh, by the way, we are heading into Ra'tika Greatwood in Shadowbringers , which at the Fan Fest two weeks ago they implicitly stated was Viera territory.

Also when he was saying they might as well not exist, he was talking specifically about Dalmasca and not the entire world.