Quote Originally Posted by MikkoAkure View Post
I’m not saying male viera can’t happen. The lore is being used as an excuse for why they’re not here now and that can be changed. What I’m saying is that using the male miqo’te comparison doesn’t make any sense.
It does because it's specifically Moonkeeper Lore. Not Sunseeker. Sunseekers males are rare, but their wanderlust nature means they have a better chance of being adventurers. Meanwhile, Moonkeepers are solitary, and only leave their family units to mate... sounds familiar? This is why we've had several Sunseeker NPCs (protip: If their names have Nuhn/Tia, they're a Sunseeker), but only 4 or 5 Moonkeepers, and one of those is locked behind Allied Beast Tribe quests, a second is a blink-and-miss-it nameless NPC in WP HM (and gay, apropos of nothing). The fact that they're not "from Eorzea" is also not really an argument because the Au Ra aren't, either, and yet we're expected to act like they've always been there when they're introduced in 3.0 (2.1 with Yugiri, but not revealed until 2.55). None of the expansion races are from Eorzea, and Hrothgar have the worst lore excuse for being gender-locked, as their women are constantly refered to as existing somewhere off-screen (really, Hroth just got the worst of everything except SOME hats work on them).

As an aside to the whole Matsuno thing... I'm sad to say the chances of a new Matsuno-helmed Ivalice game are actually pretty low. He left SE years ago and was freelancing before founding his own company (Algebra Factory); his involvement in XIV is as a guest writer due to Yoshi-P's insistence, which means he was basically hired FOR XIV ONLY. And since SE holds the rights to everything Ivalice-related, it's unlikely he'd make a new one elsewhere. The closest we'd get to a Male Viera revealed in an Ivalice game would ACTUALLY be XIV, if we happen to go back to Hydaelin's Ivalice and see a male there. Otherwise we'd need the planets to align for SE to decide to make an Ivalice game, and be in friendly enough terms with Matsuno to get him to sign on.