Garlean Playable Race (?)

[MikkoAkure]

You can say the same for literally every race. Hrothgar are just hairy roes. Viera are just elezen with bunny ears. It’s just funny to me people are so quick to shut these things down, but then cannot even back up their claims with accurate lore or things the devs have said. Yoshi P himself said while before they didn’t think they could add more races after hrothgar and viera, now that they’ve been backed more, it is a possibility in the future whereas before it was a hard no. All they’ve done is reached for lore things. They literally bend the lore all the time. They did it for female roe, they did it for male miqote, they did it for male viera. This isn’t anything new. People still using the idiotic lore excuse despite Male Viera literally being here. I thought y’all would have learned lmao.Also, hilarious to me you say there’s no point “wasting energy on maybe’s and hope you get what you want.” Yet...guess what? Omg that’s exactly why we got Male Viera! Idk what this clownery line of thinking is...but it’s literally been refuted in multiple instances.

I'm not sure if you actually read what I said or if you just like saying "lore" over and over again, but ignoring the technical aspect of new races, my argument on not getting Garleans specifically leaned more on them being the bad guys and not being visually distinct than "99% of Garleans can't even cast aero lol". I'm 100% fine with male viera. They're not going to add them in without a reason. But male viera haven't been going around being Cpt. War Crimes on our little continent for 20 years. SE won't give us glamour in the Mogstation for any of the villaians, what makes you think we'll get the whole race a lot of them belong to?

You're also comparing hrothgar to roes but at least they have major facial differences. Except for a small handful of special NPCs, Garleans are just elezen with hyur ears and a dot on their head. In ARR content, Gaius, Livia, and other Garleans who keep their helmets on literally are just Elezen underneath.

I guess that would make them easier to add them as playable, but why? In EW, we're going to Garlemald. It would be thematically OK for us to get a fake head pearl item sometime during the expansion, whether it's something in the story, or a rare fate, or something else. Pop it onto your character and you're instant Garlean-ish. What is the point of anything more than that? They're not going to bend over backwards to edit the whole MSQ up until now to give special dialogue or events for a Garlean WoL. What will having "Garlean" in your character data accomplish? Male viera at least bring something new and different to the table as a race that can't be replicated by SE deciding to use an existing asset as a glamour item.