Male Viera as a playable character! show your support

[SomeRandomHuman]

This is all just talk until they add male viera and modify the lore (which is unlikely to happen in the foreseeable future due to other things going on completely unrelated to lore), but I feel like you can’t properly compare male viera to male miqo’te.

There is a difference between one thing being rare on the continent the majority of the game’s adventures take place on, and another being rare on a continent on the other side of the world. On top of that, viera have an incredibly restrictive culture and so far in the history of the world, only the women have ever been known to leave it. The adult male viera population is even smaller than the number born as well, since they go through a grueling training regimen that not all survive.

Male miqo’te adventurers meanwhile make perfect sense according to the lore. There are already male miqo’te adventurer NPCs scattered about for one, and their whole background and lore fits the lifestyle of a wanderer. If you take into account the PCs on screen being other adventurers, you could easily say that the mismatch between their percentage of Eorzea’s population compared to the percentage of adventurers who are miqo’te is due to the fact that wandering fits them more than any other race.

All of this can be changed easy with lore though, but you still can’t compare the two at this current moment in time. Male viera suddenly being adventurers can make sense in the context of war refugees (like au ra, viera, and hrothgar). But right now, they’re isolated tribesmen on a different continent many malms away until Yoshi-P, Banri Oda, and Koji Fox decide otherwise.

Except that we're heading to that side of the world this x-pac.

Also the difference between Male viera and miqo'te ends at their continent of origin. Male Viera are hermit-style hunters akin to their miqo'te counterpart.

Also Miqo'te aren't from the continent of the adventure ether. Their origins stem from Mericydia. A place we've never set foot on in any capacity. Doma is at least on the same continent as the greatwood on the source.