Gender locked race?

[Lauront]

The main issue is that when asked about male Viera, Yoshi P said to look at the lore that was in the game.
SE might ignore the lore in some cases, but in others they don't, it's pretty hit and miss, but here we have an indication that the lore is being followed.

I doubt they actively ignore it in any case. It's simply that in most scenarios where a job or, say, a gender/race combination is rare, other players are not taken canonically as existing for the purposes of this. Just a few of those adventurers you meet will actually exist but because it's an MMO they can't be more specific than that.

Although oddly enough, Sidurgu himself is able to stay in the city, and even have a confrontation with a Halonic priestess without being slain on sight.

Unless it's explained at some point in the 60-70 quests, it seems at odds with the rest of his story. Not saying there's something suspicious about it, just maybe an oversight by the writers.


Generally though, I would have to imagine an Auri Warrior of Light having a harder time fitting into Ishgard than the others. (But then nobody in Gridania showed their usual prejudice regarding Duskwights towards my alt character, either.)

The joys of generic script writing....

Indeed. It is a shame.