Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

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They still stick to the lore for all story and race related things. Yes, tons of lore breaking items in game, doesn't detract from the fact that when things are story connected they strictly stick to the lore.

There's a lot of lore that exists for most of the playable races but it isn't always referenced in a consistent manner.

It's not as if Viera were transferred exactly as they were in FF12 over to FF14 so if liberties were taken with the women then it makes sense for liberties to be taken with the men - there's no real need for them to be as restrictive and absent. After all, it was a major oversight. A lot of the people pushing for Viera to be added in the first place did as much because they expected the men to be added as well. I doubt that the push for viera would have been as strong if it had been known that we wouldn't be getting both genders.