Quote Originally Posted by Amnmaat View Post
It's not the color though, it's the symbolism behind it. Let's take a race which has been only shown to be dark skin and let's introduce them in XIV as light skin and blonde. The ONE race in all of the of FF franchise that was actually (mostly) dark skin haha. I just find it funny more than anything, the XIV devs are really interesting folk.

The thing about male Viera only being hinted until December 2020 is sad though. Viera (female) were hinted at in patch 4.3 if I remember correctly when they were listed as one of the races residing in Dalmasca, so that was much earlier than male Viera which won't be really talked about until the story moves away from the First and into the Source again which that should be around 5.5. There will literally be nothing new to talk about regarding male Viera for almost 2 full years.
Now people are implying that the devs are racist? Lord have mercy this thread. I think they went with Veena instead of Rava, because it's the first and the first is not the same. They aren't veena or rava.