Gender locked race?

[Gwenorai]

Eh, I don't think so, we haven't seen the subrace yet, not even in the art, if you compare the art assets we've been given to what we got for au ra there was a clear distinction between the xaela and the raen with the female being raen and the male being xaela, but we have no such GLARINGLY noticeable distinction in the art. We don't even have a second lighter skin viera 3D model representative of the lighter skinned race. I don't think it's too tin foil to stretch a bit here, I also doubt the official translator would translate anything incorrectly without being corrected or told to stop.

Again I don't think ANYTHING is confirmed until fanfest drops, but I don't think it's far fetched to assume the subraces may be unique.

We have seen the subrace, both were shown. That's just how little in the difference they are. One tribe has dark skin and light hair, the other tribe has light skin and dark hair. That's how small the difference is; that's why it's boring. There is a subrace that already exists called Feol Viera where they are smaller than the full Viera. But if so they didn't introduce it nor hint at it during the showing of Viera. Note that Feol Viera have a different history/lore to ordinary Viera - there is no reason for a male to not be shown if they were around. While not shown in the games - the males weren't exactly carted off nor did they have a dogma that made them leave their communities.

So, next fanfest they're either going to focus on this 'Hrothgar' - or go back to Viera information and Hrothgar. Seeing as the Viera certainly wasn't complete, we didn't see any of their race stances or them holding a weapon; and the whole 'where are the males' question hovering about, I suppose we will see. I have hopes they do exist due to the concept art Yoshida showed; which does hint that even though he has his grievances with Viera he's willing to allow them and thus had his concept artists draw them. And this was with his comments of him thinking they're weird. And of course, the comment of 'we wouldn't show the female without the male' comment still stands as well.

You don't show concept art of both genders; state that you're not going to show the male without the female and then judge the reaction of the userbase on how they want the Viera. I mean, the only reason I voted for Viera and whined for them was due to that concept art of the males and the assumption that he wouldn't go back and genderlock them.

Bah, if we're lucky - since Hrothgar was programmed in first that it may have been created before Viera - then Hrothgar was something that has been worked upon since before stormblood and may have been the 'race' that should have been released during that expansion but was held back.

or Hrothgar is a 'trap' to throw people off due to the extensive leaks. Seems doubtful but honestly, something about the way that blufever sounded/acted made me a wee bit suspicious.