Since Lore Suddenly Matters

[MoofiaBossVal]

The lore hasn't changed. Male Miq'ote are still canonically very rare and you can count the number of Male Mi'qote NPCs you meet on one hand. (the Arcanist guildmaster, that one guy in Southern Thanalan, two other guys in the Fringes, and G'raha Tia... and that's it). The other male Miq'ote players running around aren't canon. Same deal as in WoW, where canonically 99% of the Blood Elves have been wiped out and there are only a few thousand still left alive. Ignore the fact that Blood Elves are the most popular Horde player race; other players aren't canon.

This has been true of every FFXIV expansion race. There aren't canonically a lot of Au Ra running around Eorzea, just as there aren't canonically thousands of Warriors of Darkness running around Norvrandt. You are the only canon player character. The closest population of Au Ra are the people of Werlyt, in Ilsabard. The Dark Knight story, you learn that Ishgardian knights had never seen Au Ra before and killed a whole tribe of them that arrived recently, thinking that they were a type of dragon or heretics that drank dragon blood. In universe, the people of Eorzea should be amazed to see you playing an expansion race, but it's too much effort on Square's part to go back and rewrite the dialogue and alter some cutscenes to account for that.

[EirolOcarrol]

I'll have you know my Lalafell is extremely muscular and physically capable!

[Cilia]

Necroing a thread just to call someone out after getting what they want. Nice. [/sarcasm]

Apropos of the "missing gender(s)," didn't they say there was gonna be concept art of the female Hrothgar during the Fan Fest? I didn't see any.

[WhiteArchmage]

Necroing a thread just to call someone out after getting what they want. Nice. [/sarcasm]

Apropos of the "missing gender(s)," didn't they say there was gonna be concept art of the female Hrothgar during the Fan Fest? I didn't see any.

Someone who's last post was in 2019, even. There's fishing for upvotes and then there's... whatever that was.

On-topic. Did they? I only heard we'd know more about them "soon". Which could indeed be in the Bozja finale and they deliberately didn't tell us to keep the surprise... or they just didn't want to commit to a look yet by releasing concept art.

[Cilia]

On-topic. Did they? I only heard we'd know more about them "soon". Which could indeed be in the Bozja finale and they deliberately didn't tell us to keep the surprise... or they just didn't want to commit to a look yet by releasing concept art.

Rewatching the segment the only mention made was that they could have waited and released both at the same time but they decided to release male Viera with 6.0, and that they are working on female Hrothgar. Guess I misheard. (They'll be ready when they're ready™, likely no sooner than 7.0.)

[MrThinker]

Rewatching the segment the only mention made was that they could have waited and released both at the same time but they decided to release male Viera with 6.0, and that they are working on female Hrothgar. Guess I misheard. (They'll be ready when they're ready™, likely no sooner than 7.0.)

But at least it's a promise rather than something left in limbo.