Quote Originally Posted by Jandor View Post
When it comes to the story, you're the only Warrior of Light. You're not the only adventurer, either in the story itself or in the setting in general. The other players exist in the setting, and the setting is the foundation that the story is built on.

I have no intention of ignoring the lore, the world and the story are important, however I will add a non-lore reason. They're boring and bring nothing new or exciting to the list of options, adding them as a playable race would be waste of time and resources.
You do realise that's what many people say about Viera? I mean there's existing playable races I consider to be boring and a waste of time and resources, but then I realise that's down to my personal tastes and not really a compelling reason not to add something.

Of course I don't think it will be feasible until they proceed with this touted engine overhaul, to allow for more granular customisation options, and in turn reduce the amount of resources they spend when adding new options, but nothing in adding them would require ignoring existing lore to a greater extent than other new races have.

In fact, the lore objection and the way a major canon source is frowned upon because it "might" be wrong simply strikes me as bad faith, motivated reasoning... we heard this stuff with male Viera as well. It is no real obstacle.