Male Viera Lore Possibilities? What brings them out of hiding?

[Penthea]

If I had a stomach like that I'd be out of hiding every day.

This is my new head-canon. Male viera realised how fantastic they are and decided they should no longer deprive the world of their magnificence.

[Infindox]

sadly his stardrive did not kill them all before they butchered what made the viera cool just like the cat boys did with the cats

Why are you so obsessed with hating the catboys and male Viera?

[LuciaMirain]

Why are you so obsessed with hating the catboys and male Viera?

Dont feed the troll.

[Iscah]

"Writing new lore" might be as simple as changing the Dramaturge from saying they're never seen to rarely seen. Or just outright dismissing his lore lesson as embellished hearsay and outsiders don't properly understand the actual customs.

[_Koneko_]

so because i have a different opinion i'm a troll ? really that's your logic meh whatever i simply liked the cats when they was closer to the race i played 7 years in ff 11 only to have them changed to pander to the people wanting to play a male cat

and now it happen again with viera .. SE needs to grow a backbone and say no
just look at G'raha Tia and how much of a gary stu he is his a male cat that just happen to have allagan royal bloodline blood really ... i actually hoped the exarch was anyone else but nope gotta pander to those cat boi fans

[WhiteArchmage]

"Writing new lore" might be as simple as changing the Dramaturge from saying they're never seen to rarely seen. Or just outright dismissing his lore lesson as embellished hearsay and outsiders don't properly understand the actual customs.

IIRC, even the Lorebooks are written from an In-Universe narrator and mentioned to be as how said narrator understands the event. NPCs are not infallible in their understanding of Hydaelin.

It would be downright hilarious if the Viera just lied to Matsthe Dramaturge because they felt he was nosing in too much.

[Iscah]

It would be downright hilarious if the Viera just lied to Matsthe Dramaturge because they felt he was nosing in too much.

Locals spinning tall tales for the tourists!

[RobinMalvin]

The Miqo'te race is noted as being genetically inclined towards producing more females then males, though they don't seem outstandingly rare since there's a decent number of male Miqo'te NPCs out and about.

As far as I can recall male Viera weren't noted as being rarer then females, though in the original Ivalice lore they were said to live in their own communities separate from the females, so it wouldn't surprise me if that ended up being integrated into XIV's lore. All that was really said about them thus far is that the adult males take other males into their care once they're of age and are very elusive, avoiding contact with basically everyone outside of when they occasionally visit female settlements to sire children.

We see a good number of female Viera in mixed race settlements on the First, so I'd assume the same probably holds true for some places on the Source and if they were willing to abandon their traditional ways for a more conventional lifestyle, I'd think some males would probably follow suit as well.

I agree with this. In regards to playable Viera (males and females), it stands to reason that they are renegades and outcasts for abandoning the woods they're supposed to protect. Until stated otherwise, I'm similarly inclined to believe the same for any NPC Viera we might encounter.

[BunniEclair]

This is my new head-canon. Male viera realised how fantastic they are and decided they should no longer deprive the world of their magnificence.

Male viera left the wood to get simps.

[Wyssahtyn]

They'll probably just get the same reasoning Viera already have in their clan descriptions? Displaced by war for Veena or leaving the wood just cause for Rava. For PCs at least. Guess they could work in EW stuff for 6.0 NPCs.