Quote Originally Posted by Sehrina View Post
I wonder if the texts meant the term "hares" for males specifically, or was it just a simple derogatory term? If what the Company Tragedian read was of Garlean writing, I can definitely see the term being used for Viera in general. Either way this could still point the way towards either gender making the conscious decision to leave the wood considering how vague it is.
Do you have a screenshot of this text? The NPC says something different for me atm, so I'm guessing that it was at a previous point of the 24 man story.
(If this was discussed earlier in the thread I may have missed it sorry. I thought I read most of it, but then again there now like 300 pages to sort through.)
I'm not sure if he says it before or after Fran is on the ship as that would be extremely telling if it was a derogatory term or not - she would have heard him. I very much remember him saying this however; if I can I'll try and post a screen in a later date. Though I do believe it's in this thread perhaps part of the Viera lore dump you can read here; http://mirkemenagerie.tumblr.com/pos...7699/the-viera. This provides a lot of information on Viera right down to their population in FF14 Dalmasca - uses both 'Return to Ivalice' and the 'Eorzea Encylopedia II'.


Another quote I found interesting;
"Rabanastre became a key staging ground for imperial forces in the campaign, and from there the Empire advanced into Nagxia. Although the realm was divided amongst several clans that were unable to muster a united resistance, imperial forces were at a disadvantage, as the local resistance took advantage of the dense jungle climes to frustrate the invaders’ movements and stage ambushes. It took nearly three whole years for Garlemald to subjugate the whole of Nagxia, ultimately by relying upon small, highly trained mobile units scouring the jungles until the last belligerents were brought to heel, allowing the Empire in 1552 of the Sixth Astral Era to devote its attention wholly to the conquest of Yanxia and the Kingdom of Doma.”

'Highly trained small mobile units' sounds like Viera - especially if they're able to navigate the jungle climates and take out those who have the home turf with inferior numbers.