Garlean Playable Race (?)

[Jandor]

The only compelling reason to add something from a business standpoint is sufficient demand for it relative to cost. The lore is negotiable.

BTW, it's a trifle disingenuous to claim Theodric doesn't care for the lore. Rather, it's that the objections being raised here are not difficult at all to surmount, particularly because they can lean onto the lore book. And until they explicitly contradict that source, there is no real reason to assume it is wrong.

Their ability to cast magic or not is not the main issue, they are the primary antagonists for the base game and one of the expansions. A good chunk of the story would come across as rather silly, at best, unless they changed chunks of it for Garlean characters, that's a rather large negative for a game that features its story as a big selling point.