Quote Originally Posted by RoroCookies View Post
So someone in this thread said that the leaker was asked about his icon and I couldn't help but want to find the quote out of curiosity.

"So I asked Blu about extra info and he said to look at his profile pic, It had a Rabbit and a Lion on it. Now the Rabbit is obvious as Viera and I asked if the Lion was something like Ronso since it's the only Lion like race I could think of other than Miqo'te all his said was I was pretty close. I'm hoping its Ronso because they are natural born Blue Mage type fighters so learning BLU from them would be cool. But we will see if this is right soon"

The leaker didn't outright state Ronso, but he did outright state Viera in his posts. I can imagine the second race he could've gotten mixed up about was a different variant of Viera... 'young elezen like'. Meanwhile, the Lion-like look could be fluffy male Viera or an npc race like Lupin.
But yeah, the more I think about how things are panning out now, like someone a while go talked about how the Viera's Forest has been attacked and along with the fact that we shouldn't be able to freely walk in there without a good enough reason then things begin to add up. Also... female Ronso exists so genderlocking them would make the least amount of sense.
Maybe the male vieras are lion like, it would explained why the "lion race" i not ronso but something a bit similar, it must be something new in the series since there isn't a lot of lion like race in FF