Quote Originally Posted by Seraphor View Post
It doesnt matter who reads what, you can skip the entire MSQ if you want.
Yoshi P specifically drew attention to this lore as important information pertaining to the status of male Viera in hydaelyn.
Because the lore actually depends on how you read it and what you take from it. In fact, the Dramaturge talks in the past tense. This is how things used to be, now things have changed in recent times. Example; those who leave the wood aren't seen as outcasts or exiles no more.

When he was a youth he did this travelling, he never saw one and others didn't see them either. But times are changing - they are changing, their way of life is changing. Things that were shunned are shunned no longer. The war has them on the defensive, they need aid. They need the WoD.

Let's also bring forward the fact they're supposedly all in that wood. These fierce warriors who defend the wood and their families. Having them not defend the wood in any shape or form goes against their lore unless something extremely drastic, such as their deaths or capture - would have it make sense.

Viera are not idiotic, they will seek help from outsiders if it is to protect the wood. If the wood tells a viera to leave in order to become WoL or put them on that path. They will leave.