Quote Originally Posted by Lacan View Post
Yea, they can't really use that excuse when male miqote are just as rare. It just sucks that the new race will get caught up in the backlash over this.
Not only that, but there's the simple fact that...SE writes the lore.

There was no lore on male vieras in FF XIV until 4.5. By the time 4.5 was written and released they had certainly been past finalizing plans for Shadowbringers, at least in terms of big features like jobs and races.

Even IF the male viera lore was too confining to have them be playable...it's because they WROTE THEM with the goal of being unplayable. Lore doesn't just pope out of the ground on its own someone has to write it.

Hence why I say lore might be an excuse to not have male viera but it won't be the real reason for it.