Quote Originally Posted by MercuryD View Post
Here's the thing though, Viera both male and female are exceptionally rare and the description for the tribes outright says in recent times many have chosen to leave the forests. Also, keep in mind that what the Dramaturge knows is hearsay and may not exactly be completely true.
Exactly! We know NPCs aren't infallible in their knowledge of Hydaelin and Her Children. So it could be a soft-retcon (or additive retcon, if you will) that the Dramaturge was just wrong, was purposefully given wrong information, or made the wrong assumption from what he was told.

Yoshi-P already said we wouldn't run into a whole village filled with male Viera, so they'll be keeping their rarity as NPCs, but I don't think that means they'll be completely invisible; we may find a couple here and there and it turns out they're just as capable as their female counterparts of going against the Green Word, they just... don't normally leave Ivalice.