Quote Originally Posted by Crushnight View Post
hi xeala who rarely leave the steppe nice to meet you i am a hyur who are plentiful everywhere
all joking aside using lore as a reason is not good justification this lore was written way more recently yugiri was always going to be a new race back in 2.2 so we can assume a new race was decided to be added in 4.2 what they both were were just in a conceptional stage now fast forward a patch and the base race idea should be on the table ready to be worked on as we know patches are worked on long in advance between 2 to 3 patches sometimes more so the lore for viera is within that time frame so from 4.3 (latest) to 4.5 release they easily could've excluded males from any mention they did not in fact they emphasize male viera roles and viera society in general. If you wanted to exclude a gender this would've been the easiest place to nip it in the bud they choose not to.
Player characters outside of yourself do not exist they have 0 bearing on any story within ffxiv so it would not be impossible for a single male viera to leave the wood or a pregnant female viera who will have a boy grow up outside the wood and become the WoL. Rarity means nothing impossibility does and they have males as a possible gender for newborn viera thus it is not impossible for males to be the WoL
lets not forget you can now go back as a Aura talking to Yugiri who says she is covered because her race is often mistaken for void or dragons and get killed on site and noone in eozera have seen them before.....

I mean its almost a trope in story telling to have people leave the traditional norms. It wouldn't be hard to have a male veira appear and say 'traditionally males stay in the woods but after the war happened we have started to leave and contribute to protect our home.'