Garlean Playable Race (?)

[KizuyaKatogami]

I have nothing against Garleans, I already stated I find them and their culture and tech quite interesting, and have wanted the ability to learn Garlean jobs for a long time.

In other threads I'd even be arguing that people generally underestimate the Garlean capacity for magic and aether manipulation, and that limited is not the same as zero.
However, a limited capacity doesn't mean it suddenly makes sense for them to be freely darting around an Eorzea that spends most of the game embroiled in a war with Garlemald, spamming holy and flare and teleporting all over the place, with nary an eyebrow raised by anyone at just how exceptional it all is.

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Male Viera make a lot more sense, their lifestyle has two crucial factors to it that makes becoming an adventurer very plausible.

1st of all, it sucks, it sucks big time. "Hey there kid, noticed you've got a penis now so time to be banished, enjoy living solo in the woods for the next several centuries." Meh, I'd bin that nonsense off straight away.
The 2nd, said loner guardian of the woods lifestyle might suck, but it does create a very solid foundation for becoming an adventurer.

Viera lore kinda sucks IMHO, but the fact it does kinda suck weirdly makes it better. The way they've organized their civilization is pretty stupid and seems incredibly implausible, which incidentally would explain why so many Viera adventurers are appearing, their society is basically collapsing in real time as the races are released.

Except a part of the lore is that literally no one has ever laid eyes upon one. Yet here comes hundreds of thousands of WoL male viera appearing out of thin air. So yeah...they don’t really care much about the lore when adding something the playerbase wants. It doesn’t make sense. But there are a looooot of things in the game that don’t make sense, even msq wise. There’s plot holes and plot armor everywhere. Again, it’s to be expected. The lore can be bent whenever.

[Jandor]

Except a part of the lore is that literally no one has ever laid eyes upon one. Yet here comes hundreds of thousands of WoL male viera appearing out of thin air. So yeah...they don’t really care much about the lore when adding something the playerbase wants. It doesn’t make sense. But there are a looooot of things in the game that don’t make sense, even msq wise. There’s plot holes and plot armor everywhere. Again, it’s to be expected. The lore can be bent whenever.

Viera males aren't seen due to their societies rules, it's not like it's physically impossible to see them. The rules can change and/or more Viera can decide to break them.
Also, as much as I do like my Viera, as a race they're not important to the story.

Garleans can't really use magic because of their biology, it's not something that can be waved away with some excuse like "they changed their minds lol."
Garlemald is also, unlike the Viera clans, pretty important and functions as one of the stories two main factions of antagonists.