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[JunseiKei]

[...] Just like they wrote the lore for Male Miqo'te. Did they retcon that lore? Yes they did. [...]

As far as I know, they didn't re-write Miqo'te lore. Male Miqo'te are still far outnumbered by their female counterparts. NPCs in the world that are Miqo'te are namely female - I can recall the 2 nuhns, 5 tias out of the countless females in all of Hydaelyn.

Now, you could argue PCs shouldn't be held to the same standard, but when a baby is taken at birth to be isolation and raised on only the strongest survive and made hostile...

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It's hard even for me to find a lore-abiding reason to allow PCs access to male Viera given what's been presented.

EDIT: RIP. Hit the daily limit. Did they reduce it again? D:

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Yeah. I was at FanFest 2014 in person as well. I also remember the panel it was during - discussion the concept of Au Ra and what the artists had come up with. I'm keenly aware that most pictures that get circulated with the depiction of Veira from the announcement of Heavensward are from the FATE in TOKYO, even though they show cased the same image as Au Ra - The Viera in the panel.

Context clues would tell you:
1) All the artwork is concepts for the race that will be titled "Au Ra" - every image in that panel had "Au Ra" scribed onto the page with a subtext of some sort showing the idea behind it (demon, dragon, beast, viera, viangaa, etc.)
2) All of the concepts were ideas on what Au Ra would look like
3) Most of the ideas were very different, with the reptilian-looks being the only theme that was repeated
4) That whatever the choice was, Au Ra was going to be the name of the race (IE: If the concept dubbed "The Viera" was picked to be "Au Ra," chances are, we'd have bunny Au Ra and not demi-dragon Au Ra).

This is in part why I think consumers are honestly presented too much information. Instances like this happen where people become upset and feel led on.