Gender locked race?

[Gwenorai]

...and yet that's exactly what they did with the Viera. Across multiple games, no less.

My issue with Hrothgar is that the race would have been created specifically because Yoshida didn't want to have a male Viera, that's if it's gender-locked. That doesn't sit with me well. I'd rather Hrothgar not be gender-locked at all and the Viera locked than having both of them locked all because someone didn't like the idea of bunny men.

At least with time and effort, they'd end up adding in the male Viera? What lore are they going to give Hrothgar that would make it specifically male only? A mirror of Viera just the opposite? Sigh.

As for males in the other game that can be explained away; we never had any reason to see a male. With the limitations of those games and how the lore was so much smaller back then - why add in something that didn't need to be added at all that had zero ramifications on the plotline?

I'm just trying to wrap my head around how we're going to go into the Greatwood for ShadowBringers and how we're not going to end up getting attacked by the fierce wood wardens that inhabit it. What plot are they going to give us that would retcon their lore so that none of the males are there, not even NPCs? What side quests will there be, what fates! Etc

a male Fran in 12.

We shall call him Francis.