Oh, yeah, but that's the issue really isn't it? Nothing like having another race step in due to one chaps personal preference. I'm hoping that's not the case and his personal preference is overruled by his fellow developers. While personal preference can be good, it can also be damaging and in most cases it's extremely noticeable.

With Yoshida, it's big red flags - while I don't expect a huge outrage, some of the things he's said in the past to do have some folks cocking a brow. I mean, I cocked a brow regarding the 'weirdness' he brought up regarding male rabbit men. Seemed a bit backwards and something that belongs in r/fragilemasculinity. I'm hoping that's not the case any longer and he's kind of put his own desires behind him. I did have some hope when the art of the male Viera was shown and obviously, he didn't want to show it, but he did anyway. That means someone on the dev team won, or rather he was outvoted.

As for 'ronso like' I feel bad for thinking this, but no... I can't imagine Ronso in this game fitting in without a huge rework of the rigs etc for them to even show a lick of emotion in cutscenes. And this game seems to go overboard with 'emotions' I suppose they have to due to the lack of voiced lines and the like. ESO had the same issue with Khajiit and Argonian, but they're more up to date - but also they don't have in-depth cutscenes which shows emotional ranges like FF14 does. Ronso would look like a stiff emotionless bundle of muscle and fur unless they do some huge work on that whole system. I mean, it sucks. But eh, limitations are limitations.

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I'm hoping we see either another Viera - a male - or a Hrothgar as an important NPC very soon.

In the end, I'm going to hope and pray that the Blufever leak is correct here and that the fact he didn't mention genderlocks. But Lion race, yeah, I have no hope in that looking too beast-like and more humanoid. I don't think they actually can go beyond that and make it extremely beast-like anyway - due to the plot? Aren't Ronso beast men? And the whole plot the Empire has is having all 'humanoid' races, become one like they once were? This wouldn't include Ronso - would it? No, they'd just be on the empire's 'kill list' because they worship primals.