what excuse will they use for there being no female hrothgar in the bozja citadel?

[kujoestars]

I still wouldnt get my hopes up. Its much easier to make a handful of one off NPCs then to do all the work to make an extra race playable. The NPC will only ever wear one outfit(so you dont need to model everything in the game), it might not ever move(doesnt need a full set of animations), and it will likely only ever do any emotes in a cutscene. It really just needs an idle pose, and an active one. They could mock up a female hroth as simply as putting a hroth head on a female roe body. Put it in an outfit that obscures that. Then pick a set of animations(say... male hroth for movement, female midlander for arm motions and idle). Boom. Done. Quick and dirty. And not at all playable.

As I said, they're not actually "new races", are they? I don't expect them anytime soon, but the whole deal about the opposite sex being fewer in number does not equate to them being so abysmally low there's only five of them (at least assuming Hroth and Viera have a big enough population to avoid inbreeding).

Male Viera are already similar male Keepers of the Moon in that they have a smaller population than females and live separately from them. And yet we still have male Keepers as an option and the rare NPC. If the devs ever bother making an NPC, I'm pretty sure it'd be with the intent of fully developing them.

Hence why I say the day we actually see the NPCs is the day they MIGHT become playable, key word being "might". Because the quickest way to get the playerbase aggressively clamoring for the genderlock to be lifted again is to show Male Viera and Female Hroth. And why would SE give themselves that hypothetical headache if they're not going to make it a thing?

Alternately, this becomes FFXIV's equivalent to WoW and playable high elves, LOL.

[Eloah]

I will say, going to the Hrothgar homeland does give me hope. They could actually model a female Hrothgar for the story. Sorta like they did with Merlwyb way back in 1.0. It could be like with Frans appearance a preview of what's to come. And if they do make them SE sorta has no choice but to make male Viera. I just hope they are like Miqo'te sized. Seems more appropriate for agile assassins who live in the trees, compared to lithe warrior women.

[Lauront]

There are no females. Hrothgar reproduce entirely asexually by budding.

Xaela men can do that through brooding.

[Dakuryon]

Xaela men can do that through brooding.

As a Xaela man myself, I can confirm~

[Eloah]

Xaela men can do that through brooding.

So does that mean little sun is his own moon?

[kujoestars]

Xaela men can do that through brooding.

As a Xaela man myself, I can confirm~

See, this is why we have a male pregnancy problem. We just get abstinence-only education (i.e. refrain from feeling grumpy) and we all know that never works. Always use protection when you brood, my Dusk Brothers.

[VeolE]

Xaela men can do that through brooding.

As a Xaela man myself, I can confirm~

See, this is why we have a male pregnancy problem. We just get abstinence-only education (i.e. refrain from feeling grumpy) and we all know that never works. Always use protection when you brood, my Dusk Brothers.

[Dakuryon]

See, this is why we have a male pregnancy problem. We just get abstinence-only education (i.e. refrain from feeling grumpy) and we all know that never works. Always use protection when you brood, my Dusk Brothers.

Aye, 'tis true! Thank you for the much needed reminder, Dusk Brother~

[Lauront]

Meanwhile, we Raen need to be a bit more adventurous in our brooding, if our numbers are ever to go back up!

[Crushnight]

Can I say I love where this thread is going XD