Quote Originally Posted by Nestama View Post
Viera will most likely get the hairstyles everyone has right now, but probably at a later date. Probably same day Hrothgar get more mane/face options.

So I've been thinking about lore again and what Yoshi-P has said. He said that we'll be hearing about the existence of male Viera and female Hrothgars in some shape or form, but then I got thinking... is he talking about Hrothgar and Viera? or Ronso and Vii? We're going to the First, so any lore we learn about Ronso and Vii on the First cannot be treated as Hrothgar and Viera lore (one example being that Lalafells are 'beastmen' on the First. Almaj'aa lore might be completely different, too, since they also live on the Crystarium with the other Spoken races). So even if we see a male Vii, they'll still need to figure out how to make the male Viera playable due to their lore restrictions (since SE do love to restrict themselves with their lore).

Though I suppose making the Golmore Jungle something we can never explore (keeping it as an instance zone only, like Xelphatol) might be the best bet to make them playable. Left jungle, branded as exiled, only in Jungle for short time (kill Ultima), not killed dead for being traitor to the woods.
That's assuming that all the expansion will take place on the First, which I'm positive we wouldn't. There's still some plot threads in Garlemald, we saw Estinien with Gaius in the Launch Trailer (and it doesn't seem like they came to the First), and a shot of Count Edmund's Memoirs. Since we still have the empire to deal with, it's likely we'll go back to the Source for a lot of the MSQ post 5.0, and Yoshi-P's words implied we'd be hearing about them in 5.1 and above, because the 5.0 script should have been pretty much ready when he said that (although, given that the naming conventions for Viera and Hrothgar won't be ready until AFTER the official launch...).

The preview for GNB has a Hrothgar AND a Viera (which, I was very much laughing at, just let the Hroths have the full spotlight for once lol), so it's likely we'll see Hroths and Viera in the Source as well (and on that point, we're going BACK to the Source for the lvl 80 job quests so there must still be reasons for us to return to the Source post 5.0 MSQ)