Quote Originally Posted by Canadane View Post
Since Viera are established in the Final Fantasy games already, Yoshi-P may not have even had a choice in the matter.
Even if we did, we got an entirely different race, which is awesome, and adds a lot of variety to the world when people chose to play these.
13...years ago... and FFXIV is their take on it, which honestly could have been anything especially since that's what happened in tactics and not just 12.