Male Viera stuff from Matsuno

[Iscah]

The entire "8/10 children are born female, yet we subject the few males to a brutal rite of passage from which many perish, so they can try to survive alone in the woods and possibly come back to mate every few years, ensuring Viera don't die out" is so... flawed?

Yeah, that bugs me too and I don't think they should have included both those ideas together. Either have the race predominantly female OR culturally require the men to be banished into the jungle, but not both together. That just seems like a way to ensure your civilisation dies out.

But, given that it is in place, it's probably going to be a common character origin story for male Viera that they decided the whole thing is madness and either they're going to serve the tribe better by not dying alone in the middle of nowhere, or they just want nothing to do with the entire system.