Quote Originally Posted by Beki_Bayaqad View Post
The veira lore has been in place since FFXII way back in 2008. Before that Male Veira literally didn't exist.
Incorrect, viera's first appearance was in tactics advance which was a fantasy ivalice created by mewt taking place in a pre-cataclysm ivalice(2003), at that point it was obvious pre-War of the lions ivalice was either not completely thought out or the ivalice mewt created was a complete fantasy as the next appearance in XII completely revamps the history and culture of the viera and many of the elements from advance no longer exist.

In XII(2006) viera men are mentioned to live in completely separate shelters only contacting females for the sake of mating but otherwise having their own separate society, it was stated that male viera was a cut plot thread from XII due to masuno leaving the development of the game midway, which was the reason why the second half of the game seems more rushed than the last.

Now even if you go by the advance games as proof of male viera never being in lore, Advance2 which is a sequel to Advance, takes place LITERALLY in the same timeline as 12 with both vann and panelo showing up only slightly older, this means that the viera are almost exactly the same lorewise as they are in XII, unless the viera of Jylland have a completely separate evolution from the viera of Valendia, Ordalia, and Kerwon that makes them Asexual, we can infer that males do in fact exist even if they aren't stated.

The Viera of Revenant wings(2007) another direct sequel to XII also share the same lore and region as the XII viera so males exist here as well.

Ergo your statement is basically false, especially if you consider that tactics, which takes place in the far future of Ivalice after the Disaster of Argo made all of the fairy tale races extinct(Viera, Bangaa, Nu mou etc etc) was basically retconned to have the same timeline as XII, Revenant wings and A2. Male viera have existed since the impetus of Ivalice and have in theory been in more games than they have been out of(Advance). I mean Masuno himself has stated he had nothing to do with male viera existing and seems to have an image in mind for what they'd look like.

Unless you count vagrant story, but I'm not sure if we ever received confirmation for where that lines up in ivalice's story, and viera don't show up at all in VS.