Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[Melichoir]

The issue that we keep illustrating is that using the FFXII lore as the reason why we should never see male viera in FFXIV, that this doesnt work within the context of FFXIV world building and pre-existing lore. It doesnt make sense because that lore is from a different title with different rules, history, backgrounds, etc that were crafted to fit together narratively.

Just because they paid homage doesnt mean that its the same Ivalice, and therefore the same cultural norms and expectations of the Viera. If they alter Ivalice lore (even order of events or what did and didnt happen), then its not the same Ivalice from 12, and it is reasonable to expect lore for Viera to differ as well. Which should be the case, but because Meta design reasons that we all know about, the Viera lore is a copy/paste from 12 despite previous world building, and that lore thats lifted from 12 does not fit within 14 seemlessly and causes a whole bunch of consistency issues.

The most immediate example right now is how Viera on the first have the exact same cultural setup as those on the source. This is inconsistent with everything else, but is done so because of meta reasons with the copy/pasted lore of 12 as the reason. And speaking frank, when it comes to narrative and story, this is a bad thing. It makes them stick out like a sore thumb compared to other races. Some of this is only saved because we spend so little time on the source this xpac, but as soon as we spend more time doing things on the source, its going to get more apparent.