Gender locked race?

[Gwenorai]

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Aye; the issue I have with this chap is that he's certainly not the authority on Viera - sure he knows the information but that's that. It's weird because it paints different tales. You go into the wood, you won't see them. You go outside of the wood, you won't see them. Yet we know they exist and are the heavily populated within that woodland area. To the point that we know that when we set foot into the wood during the 24 man that Fran mentioned that they were watching us. She can see them, she knows what to look for. They exist to the females because the females know what the males look like and finally can sense/know where they are.

If they exist to female Viera then why can't a female Viera WoL/WoD not see them when they're in the homeland? Either it's going to be bad writing, the males are 'gone entirely' or they exist.

The Dramaturge is a hyur who is going off his own experiences and those of other races; and the players experience in previous games. If if it was another Viera who said 'they do not exist here' then there you go, that would solidify it.

Now it certainly could be possible that we won't see the males. But the fact they're still on par with rarity with male miqo'te in regards to birthrates that's kinda moot. If they use this for an argument then that's stupidity at its finest as people will just demand the males just like they did with the male kitty bois.

From a story standpoint, it could be explained away that the fact you haven't seen a male is because they don't want to be seen, and those who have seen them - like those imperial units who ended up being slaughtered by them can't return to tell the tale.

It's like Tuskan Raiders in Star Wars; we never see what they look like behind the masks, only their 'clan' has seen their true faces - but we know there's something behind the mask, but heck, you're not going to see that unless you kill one and rip the mask off. And no one has yet to come across a 'dead' male Viera.

As for the woods they inhabit. The dramaturge talks about if you walk into the woods that 'searching for them will find disappointment or even death' - this doesn't make any sense because those woods are a literal death trap. You're not going to walk into those woods in hopes of searching for a male viera because it's extremely likely you're going to end up dead or chased off by something; mostly dead. I remember that forest in FF12 being a no mans land, apart from the Viera, the beasties and some Imperials - I need to go through FF12 again to be sure about this.

In the end, if they weren't going to add male Viera then I'd ask why they even bothered to add in the lore regarding it. Why now? They could have easily just have talked about the females and just the females and left out the large piece of information regarding the genders. Honestly; it would have made more sense for the information to come from Fran - not the dramaturge.

Adding in lore about the males just adds to hype; why hype something if you're going to turn around and go 'nah'? But that's just my thoughts on it all of course.

Actually; can anyone confirm regarding the lore of the male Viera and if there's more lore on the male compared to other races that exist right now?