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

[ReynTime]

Same reason why Miqo'te went from "rare" to a crapton of important NPCs all being Miqo'te.
Same reason Y'shtola faked death at least twice.
Same reason that ShB character's "sacrifice" was another fake-out.

Fanservice. There is no deep meaning behind these. They can come up with "lore" reasons after the fact.

That said most people don't like gender-locked races anyway so it doesn't matter how good or bad the lore reason male viera will be infesting Eorzea is. Let people have options.

[_Pigzig]

their women aint got no butt
so they went out in search of butt slider

[KittyKet]

It's mating season.

tbh tho

It's how it is with my alt. It's mating season, his mate is not in the village where she's supposed to be, wtf, so now he's gotta go find her. But with his intense training, he's developed Geralt levels of helping people beat up bad stuff whenever asked, so it's taking him a while.

We're talking about being infested with male Viera later this week, but I kinda feel for these poor reclusive bunny bois suddenly finding themselves among... people.

[Fukuro]

What's next? Female lion people? Hah, well we shall see if FFXIV lives long enough after the man rabbit apocalypse to even have a lion lady catastrophe.

Female Hrothgar‘s thighs are going to give it the final crush!

[Jandor]

The way they organize their society is kinda dumb, semi-exiling your rather rare men from your civilization, but also barring them from living among other civilizations, that's got to lead to at least some male Viera thinking 'this sucks, screw it I'm leaving for good'.
I'd imagine the whole system has been slowly falling apart for a while, but due to Viera lifespan being 3 times longer than the other races the collapse has essentially been in slow motion.

Over the past hundred plus years what was initially a small trickle of Viera ditching the forests has morphed into a flood, and with the impending end of the world, a full on mass exodus.

That's my head-canon for it at least.

[KittyKet]

The way they organize their society is kinda dumb, semi-exiling your rather rare men from your civilization, but also barring them from living among other civilizations, that's got to lead to at least some male Viera thinking 'this sucks, screw it I'm leaving for good'.
I'd imagine the whole system has been slowly falling apart for a while, but due to Viera lifespan being 3 times longer than the other races the collapse has essentially been in slow motion.

Over the past hundred plus years what was initially a small trickle of Viera ditching the forests has morphed into a flood, and with the impending end of the world, a full on mass exodus.

That's my head-canon for it at least.

The Viera here take a lot from FFXII, and that's exactly the issue that was going on there. World is falling apart and some of the bunbuns are like "maybe complete isolation isn't a great way to survive, after all.."

[Roda]

We're talking about being infested with male Viera later this week, but I kinda feel for these poor reclusive bunny bois suddenly finding themselves among... people.

Mild name spoilers for pre-EW lore:

[Hysorn]

they existed but they was not important they should have stayed that way the best part of ff 11's cat race is that all the men nearly extinct so they never played any important role in the society

but in ff 14 they had to give into the manchilds that wanted playable male cats because they wanna! would have been nice to have at least one race with no men allowed!

Wait, you want a race of female looking hermaphrodites?

[MsQi]

They are not coming out of hiding as a group. The ones you see, like all adventurers, decide to go their own way in life.

This is not WoW where you are part of a racial faction and most of what you do is in service to that faction, at least early on. In this game adventurers are rebels. Several of the people you meet look down on you because you chose the life of an adventurer. Many of you (your character) would also be unwelcome if you returned to your ancestral homes.

[MercuryD]

Semi off topic but it looks like Sage trainer is a male viera