Quote Originally Posted by WhiteArchmage View Post
I really don't get your point, XII lore only mentions Male and Female Viera living "separately" in different villages, only making contact when the need arises. Nothing about lower birthrates, or defenders of the forest, just isolationist and not inhabiting the same area of Golmore that we go through (and the Viera we DO see in Golmore are in the part that's blocked until Jote lets us through), and since we need Fran to even go inside Eruyt, it'd be downright impossible to go to a Male village

These are not the same Viera as Ivalice so the XIV team can and has rewritten the Viera Lore.
Let me requote what I quoted since you apparently missed what I responded to.

Quote Originally Posted by WhiteArchmage View Post
I'd like to believe that lore was hastily rewritten after the... feedback to be ambiguous enough to "justify" both the lack of mViera/fHrothgar at launch, and the possibility of adding them in the future.