Gender locked race?

[Karl0217]

I mean, if there isn't a single male Viera in Dalmasca, the biggest hub that's closest in location to their homeland, it doesn't paint a positive picture that there'd be others even further away.

And there wasn't any Au Ra in Limsa, despite the fact Limsa ships regularly docked in Kugane were Au Ra make up a sizable chunk of the population, prior to Yugiri's arrival. Nor were there any in Ul'Dah prior to Yugiri's arrival, despite the fact that Ul'Dah's largest corporation maintains a branch office in Kugane.

People keep bringing this up, but we certainly didn't have any trouble getting to the Orbonne Monestary which is inside the Golmore Jungle. We weren't riddled with arrows stepping foot there.

Fran specifically says during the quest they are watching you and if she wasn't with you they would have attacked by now. It pays not to skip cutscenes.

And there's nothing to say we wouldn't get some special treatment like we always do, some magical boon that blesses us with the favor of the woods. So if male viera hear the Green Word, it'd tell them we're here to help and thus have no reason to attack us in the slightest.

We got special treatment prior in the game when we entered another militant isolationist territory, Ishgard, when we were made a ward of House Fortemps. I remember getting attacked by Ishgardian forces in the MSQ, the Dark Knight class quests, the Astrologian class quests, the Machinist class quests....

And at the same time we might not get any special treatment at all. It is just as likely the male Viera find out that the Garlean troops that attacked their homeland are looking for us and decide they can get rid of the Garleans by getting rid of us.

Except it wasn't. None of the old designs shown from 2015 were used. The closest one had traits that the in-game version does not.

They specifically showed those old designs during the fan fest in Paris two weeks ago. See the 2:10:00 mark