Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[NearEDGE]

I'm pretty sure this has been said before but, if we were going to be "lore friendly" about this, female Viera would not be playable and male Viera would. The male Viera live on their borders and have more reason and opportunity to leave the forest and go adventuring. The way they have introduced Viera into the game is already at odds with the lore as it is now.

Edit: To expand on this, the female Viera live comfortable lives within their villages in the forest. The male Viera live lives of hardship trying to survive in the wilderness. Most people when they live a hard life tend to try their utmost to somehow transfer themselves into a more enjoyable and comfortable state of living. Following this train of thought, the male Viera survive on their own near the forest borders to protect the forest. Yes, some of the males may feel honor bound to stay put and protect, but you can be damn sure there are some who are more likely to seek a better life else where and never bother returning. So it really makes no sense to exclude male Viera for lore reasons.

I don't believe that to be true at all actually. All Viera have the same opportunity to leave the wood, the separating factor would be the desire to leave the wood. Males are described as being generally reclusive. They prefer solitude and only fraternize with other Viera of either sex when it is absolutely necessary to do so. Very few males are born as Viera have a heavily skewed gender ratio, and even fewer males survive to adulthood. Through enduring their rite of passage, it becomes even less likely that a male Viera would want to leave the wood and forsake the honor of being truly fit to serve as its protector. The Viera are nothing if not a dutiful race when it comes to the wood and both males and females it experience it in ways that humans could not understand, but a male's connection to the wood is very different from, and arguably stronger than, a female's connection to the wood.

[jake200135]

I don't believe that to be true at all actually. All Viera have the same opportunity to leave the wood, the separating factor would be the desire to leave the wood. Males are described as being generally reclusive. They prefer solitude and only fraternize with other Viera of either sex when it is absolutely necessary to do so. Very few males are born as Viera have a heavily skewed gender ratio, and even fewer males survive to adulthood. Through enduring their rite of passage, it becomes even less likely that a male Viera would want to leave the wood and forsake the honor of being truly fit to serve as its protector. The Viera are nothing if not a dutiful race when it comes to the wood and both males and females it experience it in ways that humans could not understand, but a male's connection to the wood is very different from, and arguably stronger than, a female's connection to the wood.

Yes, but are ALL of the Viera dutiful? No one can say with certainty that ALL of the male Vieras will stay and protect the forest. It's an inevitability that some will leave, just as some of the females already do. If we follow your reasoning, then Viera would not have been playable at all. They would be an NPC only race.

Edit 1: To say that all members of a race behave in exactly the same way is simply illogical. I mean no disrespect of course, but the lore simply doesn't add up for excluding male Viera.

Edit 2: Plus, very likely some Viera have a stronger connection to the greenword than other Viera. So its very likely there may be some Viera males who have a weaker connection with the forest and simply have either a desire to leave and/or no desire to stay.