Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Hunky]

I like that! Maybe the Helion's queen at some unspecified point in the 5.x series, they could justify keeping her covered up or something in case the model's not quite ready

After reading the Helion lore I'm even more interested in seeing the female Hrothgar, especially the Helion queen.

A Helion queen would definitely be a fun and interesting addition to the story. Maybe conflict between the Helions and the Lost over the legitimacy of the queen's rule.

I'm liking the lore and I think the developers could squeeze out some good storytelling out of it.

And I can visualize the announcement of female Hrothgar through the reveal of the Helion queen.

[Duskane]

I can imagine female hrothgar to be very snobby and proud

[Lauront]

It's a real shame that we don't have more prominent male Xaela/Raen characters involved in the story. I think they look pretty great.

Why thank you kind ser.

[Kelryth]

Cleric's Robe Set you get them after the lvl 50 White Mage quest. I really like these robes.

Yeah nah, the earliest you can expect female Hrothgar and male Viera is 6.0. Unless they start working on them right now (which is unlikely because they're currently working on making sure Shadowbringers releases without any issues and then will go on a vacation), you should not/never expect male Viera during a patch day (and if they did, but it came at the cost of playable content, I know I would not be happy about that). Edit: an NPC might be likely, but only in 5.5.

Sigh I understand you wouldn't like seeing them before 6.0 and it's completely understandable but SE can (and most likely will) prioritize whichever content makes them most money, so male Viera is possibly one of their priorities since it would make them much more money than a dungeon no one is gonna run

It's weird that some of you think the devs would just scrap content for something else instead of just delaying its release.

[zeylos]

sigh to think all of this would've been avoided if SE decided to do what they promised in 1.0 and give us whichever of the 2 races but as an actual race and not the half baked thing we got now.
Claiming there are 2 new race is like claiming BLU is an actual job lol

[SturmChurro]

I rather think, from what little I know of the lore, that they made these Viera genderlocked, for lore reasons, and brought in the furry race to even things out, for similar reasons. I doubt they will be bringing male versions anytime soon, if they are confirmed genderlocked. Only way I can see them bringing in male/female variants of either would be if there was enough community uproar for them. For Viera, let's just get this out of the way, it would have been 9/10 female to males anyway.

[zeylos]

I rather think, from what little I know of the lore, that they made these Viera genderlocked, for lore reasons, and brought in the furry race to even things out, for similar reasons. I doubt they will be bringing male versions anytime soon, if they are confirmed genderlocked. Only way I can see them bringing in male/female variants of either would be if there was enough community uproar for them. For Viera, let's just get this out of the way, it would have been 9/10 female to males anyway.

First of all lore reason has been debunked 10000 times already. Second of all look at male miqote and you will realize that there is many many ppl that like sexy male races and third reason male Viera would have sold 60 or 70 times more than hrotgar. Also there IS enough of an uproar in the community for them to be playable and trust me when I tell u I'm almost 100% sure well get male viera, the only question is when

[Awha]

Sigh I understand you wouldn't like seeing them before 6.0 and it's completely understandable but SE can (and most likely will) prioritize whichever content makes them most money, so male Viera is possibly one of their priorities since it would make them much more money than a dungeon no one is gonna run

How do you figure? I think if it turns out we have a content dropoff because they had to reshuffle resources around to accommodate for Male and female genders to the races I am willing to bet the backlash would surpass what we are seeing now. More people would he impacted by lack of content, then lack of genders.

[SturmChurro]

First of all lore reason has been debunked 10000 times already. Second of all look at male miqote and you will realize that there is many many ppl that like sexy male races and third reason male Viera would have sold 60 or 70 times more than hrotgar. Also there IS enough of an uproar in the community for them to be playable and trust me when I tell u I'm almost 100% sure well get male viera, the only question is when

I don't know where you are getting your numbers from, honestly. Aside from that, if that is truly the case then why would they bother even making hrothgar who look like there was more effort put into them than the female viera? It probably would have been low effort to just make a male variant of them comparatively.Gender* locking these is a conscious choice, I'm just wondering why.

[BillyKaplan]

Racially locking these is a conscious choice, I'm just wondering why.

They explained it. They wanted to add Hrothgar because there were requests for a more beastly race, and they would diverse the available races as basically everything other than Lalafell is some variation of Hyur - Hroths' heads and faces in particular are the farthest we've seen so far.
But then came the issue with the females, and them having added Fran to the Ivalice raid questline. They couldn't add her without enormous backlash at the much requested Viera being in the game but not playable, so they decided to shaft the Hroth females in favor of female Viera. (so let's only diversify the males and give females Elezen with bunny ears)

tl;dr Hroths were decided on first, it seems, but then they forced their own hand with the addition of Fran.