Quote Originally Posted by Colt47 View Post
Well, I actually have kind of flipped my direction on seeing male viera. It's probably too late to change the direction of the ship, but there's sort of a loss of character to the races in this game that came with the whole idea that every race must have male and female adventurers. I've been seeing this a lot in games right now where the idea of gender equality is being pushed so hard that world lore gets warped and lost in the process of supplication to the movement, like someone washing away the paint upon a canvas and leaving only the first layer, so that you see what looks like an ocean, but it's just an indistinct blob of two colors meeting at a horizon.

If a particular species of creature had adapted such that it was easier to have fewer males and more females, because of some adaptation that promoted such a setup as "good enough" for the survival of the species, it would make sense that the only adventurers that someone would see of that race would be of the dominant gender. That is what got lost in FFXIV vs FFXI with the Mithra vs Miqote, and the Galka vs Roegadyn. Viera are basically the take 2 of the Mithra in this game culturally, since the miqote got screwed up and turned into nothing more than a human cat person mascot race. Great, we all get to play humans with cat ears and eyes, but what exactly made them so special to begin with?

Gender / racial politics have really become far too prominent in creating worlds in AAA games and I'm tired of the white knight twitter riots that think building a race that has a female or male dominant ratio, for logical reasons, is a nail that must be hammered down. Galka reincarnated so they didn't need females. Mithra had a flaw in their race that made males of the species far rarer than females, so females were the only ones to really get the freedom to travel. I don't feel that those aspects are wrong, or say some political message about gender equality that goes against it. Personally I think Viera as they were written in FFXII were kind of odd, since the only reason a sentient forest would have in making a rabbit woman the way it did is to communicate with and deal with humans, but I digress...
No, I completely disagree. We aren't even talking about one or the other, and nothing is being rewritten with these missing genders. Viera already had established lore - for awhile, and female hrothgar has already been written previously as being the literal leaders of the hrothgar. In fact, I'd agree with others around here that female hrothgar not being in the game is odd for the narrative. There would be nothing being changed for "gender politics", with their potential addition. This is a complete non-issue, in my opinion.