Quote Originally Posted by Lastelli View Post
I mean, the lore was created that way to justify the fact that MViera are not seen in previous games and in ShB, since the race itself was basically created to pander to the prevalent horny male teenager audience. It's not like it's a fundamental and unchangeable state of the world. All it takes is an additional piece of lore that says "look, their homeland is in danger so they decided to venture out".
I'm not saying that the lore wasn't created as an excuse, I'm just saying that's how it's presented to us and why we wouldn't expect to see them until a certain moment of the game. Just like how up until the Doman refugees arriving to Eorzea and the recent events of Stormblood, no one had ever seen Au Ra or Lupin before in Eorzea. Of course things can change and that's why we have playable Au Ra to begin with.

Viera aren't the only pandering race either. We have Au Ra whose extremely weak lore just shrugs at the fact that SE made a race of edgy, brooding, muscular men and tiny, scrawny, cutesy women half their size in order to satisfy the lowest common denominator. And then the Miqo'te were changed from having more cat-like features to becoming more traditionally attractive and basically being humans with cat ears and a cat tail.

Adding male Viera wouldn't be the first time they retconned anything anyway. Dalmasca was originally much smaller and on the other side of the continent before they decided to make it actual content and wrote off the old lore as a "clerical error".

Quote Originally Posted by Kaoru_Nagisa View Post
Meanwhile RPers are laughing at people saying "lore says they never leave the Wood!!!"

I've got one bun who left the jungle over 70 years ago, and another that left 20 years ago and has lived in Sharlayan since then.

And guess what? Neither break the lore - if the women can choose to leave despite the Green Word they all live under, so can males. Shocking, I know!
May not break the lore but RPers can say anything they want as long as the people they're RPing with accept it. During ARR and HW you had a bunch of people who RP'd as dragons who pretended to be hyur and elezen. I've also bumped into people who RP'd as robots that look 100% human and more than a few vampires, despite neither of those existing in the game. And then there's the hordes of dragoons despite the game saying there's only about 9 left alive.