Final Fantasy 14: Do Female Hrothgar Exist?
Final Fantasy 14's unique fantasy races have received a lot of love from its large community of players. From the cat-inspired Miquo'te to the draconic Au Ra, the races of Eorzea and beyond each have excellent designs and interesting lore associated with them. One of them is the Hrothgar, the lion-inspired race that was first introduced in the Shadowbringers expansion.
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Although all the other races in the game now offer the option to play as a male or female, including the recently added male Viera, this selection is currently conspicuously absent for the Hrothgar race, which has led many players to ask: do female Hrothgar even exist, and will we ever get the chance to play as them?
The canon answer to this question is supported by the in-game text for the Hrothgar within the character creator menu, in both the broad description of the Hrothgar and the distinction between the two sub-types of Hrothgar: Helions and The Lost.
In the broad description of Hrothgar, one particular sentence seems to describe the canon reasoning behind the current absence of female Hrothgar: "Females number staggeringly few among their population, and thus are rarely so much as glimpsed by the other races."
In addition, this imbalance is remarked upon in the description of the Helions, who are described as Hrothgar who have dedicated themselves to serving their 'queen.' Assuming that the Hrothgar label their monarchies in the same way as we do in human society, this line may suggest that the queens the Helions serve are these aforementioned few females of the race.
Furthermore, the other type of Hrothgar - The Lost - is identified by their lack of a queen to follow. It's therefore clear that
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