Miqo'te gender balance on the First

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I mean, that bit of lore was already true when 1.0 was released so it can't be a reference to itself. I'm pretty sure it's meant to actually be lore, especially with how miqo'te are based off FFXI's mithra who also do not have male PCs and also in-game lorewise have vastly more females than males. Also the two tribes of miqo'te we see do in fact have very few males.

Contrast with the roegadyn, who originally also did not have a gender available (females were not playable during 1.0) and players play the other gender even more overwhelmingly relatively often than is the case for miqo'te players - just look at statistics, female roegadyn players are a small fraction of all roegadyn players while male miqo'te are almost 40% of miqo'te players. And they are also based off one of FFXI's races. And yet no lore justification is given for the supposed rarity.

So clearly there must be some actual lore thing in the world that causes miqo'te males to be less common than females on the Source but not the First. And regardless of whether this lore reason has actually been thought out, I'm not interested in the doylist version of it, only in the canon implications.

(Not to mention that, if the First becomes easily accessible with patch 5.3, suddenly the gender imbalance that is the backbone of miqo'te cultures will no longer be true, female Seekers will be free to find males rather than staying with their nunh, etc etc etc)