one thing though, with a worldwide calamity, it gives the Male Viera a reason to leave the forests and given that we start at Thavnair or at least travel from there to Garlemald (assumed) we would likely cross through both Bozja and Dalmasca. So We could still see them. Also, the races wouldn't necessarily be announced now, but it would be a good announcement for the digital fanfest where they have the scope to go into detail around their design as they did with Female Viera and Male Hrothgar. I get that the schedule showed them being super tight in terms of resource, but I think that needs to be looked at in context. It is a development organisation flow and will not change at all, the only thing that changes is the content it is applied to and so it would really depend on YP and the devs agreed workflow. So if they decided to add them, then they would be included in the expansion workflow that we arent privy to, therefore we shouldn't see it as a precursor to not adding them, but rather an explanation of how the Development process is managed and organised from a Dev perspective.