Quote Originally Posted by Alesone View Post
Your argument is like saying why can't we play as beast tribe characters then, they're capable of all the things we are as player characters. Or how about Garleans? Why can't we play as them?
I think that's a different issue. Male Viera are made (potentially) unplayable because of their individual race-lore that states they don't go out of the forest.

Garleans and beastmen aren't playable for world-lore issues. Both would make for particularly awkward storywriting when the Warrior of Light is "generic" and the script is the same regardless of race (except for the occasional nod) as their races are in direct conflict with the protagonists.

Either people completely ignore your 'interesting' race choice, or the script gets derailed every few levels as you try to explain (yet again) why you're not a Garlean spy or a marauding beastman who, at very least, needs to be driven out of the city immediately.


Even with the races we already have, you already get these awkward moments where the writers ignore your race. Buscarron explains the idea of Duskwights... to my Duskwight. Wildwood archers would bear the brunt of Silvairre's snobbery that only Wildwoods are true archers. Yugiri will insist she needs to hide her face, even to another Au Ra.