Quote Originally Posted by zeylos View Post
As for viera, in FFTA viera is nothing more than a dream race and male viera don't exist (in fact, I believe EVERY single race was genderlocked there, even humans). In FFXII, which is where the lore of the Viera should be taken from, the onyl reason why we don't see male viera is that they live spearately from the females, and they were planned for the second part of the game I believe, but Matsuno left before their implementation. In FFXIV's lore, male viera are protectors of the forest, and cosnidering the reason why female viera left the wood, It would make more sense for the viera to be male onyl lore wise, due to the fact that the males are the ones who live closer to other societies.
Indeed! The only other female playable character (in FFTA), Ritz, is treated as a Viera in gameplay-terms, only able to switch between Viera jobs (Mewt, although unplayable, is treated as a Nu Mou...which you'd never know were smaller than moogles going by TA/2, because of the sprites). TA2 did it better by allowing Adel and Frimelda to switch between Human jobs even if the game otherwise treats them as female, and although female Seeqs and Bangaa show up in TA2, none are playable in the way that the game will recognize them as such (by Al-Cid's Agent skillset or the Law system). Point being: going by TA in gender-locking races is a non-issue. :P