Another female assassin?

[Nanako]

There are now four female heroes in the game.
And four female assassins.

I could understand this happening a bit if theres a predesigned roster of heroes and you're working through implementing them. But four?

All of the girls are in one third of the roles. What the heck is going on here? is a designer working out some frustrations with a caricature of a backstabbing ex wife?

Sorceresses and witches are a popular thing in any fantasy story, its really silly to not have female magic users at least.

I know girls are generally less common in tank roles, due to it requiring lots of mass. But there can always be a rare exception. Give us a barbarian lady like sonya from diablo
https://liquipedia.net/commons/images/thumb/4/4a/Sonya.jpg/600px-Sonya.jpg

[Evanex]

Same here, when they said "Matriarch Woodania" was going to be released, based on her name i thought she was going to be a sorceress

[ele]

"Unlikely" if i remember correctly.

[Froh]

Each class is gender specific. For now. It could change in the future though. But thoses "first" heroes were kinda already designed graphically as you can see them in the game cover.