Gender locked race?

[ChaseNetwork]

Garleans make no sense as a player race. Lore-wise, they're defined by their inability to use aether... Which is something literally every job in the game needs to do to function. Practically speaking, they don't really have a unique character model, either. Garlean NPCs always use other races bodies (like Elezen) with unique heads, or a 100% character-unique model.

Lore-wise, they could have a dose of Resonant, and their ceruleum magitek equipment does magic for them. Treating that genetic lack of ability to use magic as a hindrance is really superficial now. However, I already reasoned out Garleans myself in that same quote you cherry picked due to being ridiculous as a male only race.

[xbahax92]

Do we have actually any hint or lore for a lion race? Any sidequest, sidestory, lore books? Anything?

[Beckett]

Do we have actually any hint or lore for a lion race? Any sidequest, sidestory, lore books? Anything?

Nothing at all. The only info we have for a Lion race is the leaks from months ago. Those leaks have been incredibly accurate about a wide variety of subjects, so they're well worth paying attention to, but obviously nothing is set in stone until we get any sort of official word on the matter.

[LadyKairi]

People seem to forget that Yoshida is a troll. He loves withholding certain information to watch people on the forums form speculations and freak out. People just need to chill and wait until AFTER the next fanfest and whatever live letters to start freaking out. So what if he didn’t say “there’s more to come” or point out why they only showed female? That’s the point. So people would start screaming “TRIGGERED THERES NO MALE” while they sit back and enjoy the show.

Regardless, I’m pretty sold on the leaks that happened a while back. Maybe viera IS gonna be gender locked and males will get their own race. Who knows? We sure don’t, so I’m saving my pitchfork for after we’ve gotten all of the information.

[Kupocoubo]

I swear if we get this over male bunny I will cry.
"you wanted more beards, we will give you hairy shoulders please be excited."

[ErryK]

I swear if we get this over male bunny I will cry.
"you wanted more beards, we will give you hairy shoulders please be excited."

I'll take hairy shoulders over another twink race.

[Kupocoubo]

I'll take hairy shoulders over another twink race.

The male vieras from the concept art are not twink at all, they are muscular and have hairy chest.

[Umeikoai]

I agree, it's balanced, if male vieras are not twink nor bara it will keep the races balanced imo

Why not just have both. One clan being more masculine and another being more feminine? It's not like skin colors matter too much because you can get a duskwight elezen and give him more wildwood looking human colors.

[MagiusNecros]

If male Ronso become a thing they better be super beastly badass looking and not dumb looking. Thanks.

[Beckett]

If male Ronso become a thing they better be super beastly badass looking and not dumb looking. Thanks.

Well they can't be too bestial, or they'll break the lore by appearing to be Beastmen. Even if not outright banned from cities, they would at the very least be treated wearily and with suspicion.

On the other hand, Au Ra totally break the lore for new characters (when Yugiri is introduced, no one in Eorzea has ever seen an Au Ra before, even though your character standing right next to them could easily be an Au Ra). So it's not like there's not lore-breaking precedent.