I do not know if this will actually go anywhere, but it was a fun little thought experiment regardless.
Oh, the things you think of in the shower.
So, ever since I met the Hhetsarro in Dawntrail, this has been bothering me.
Just running around the current camping site of the tribe we have met, and the surrounding areas of Shaaloani where you see the highest concentrations of their numbers, I did some counting, and came to the conclusion that, unlike the miqo'te, there seems to be a rough 50/50 split of males to females, more like the hyur, elezen and lalafel. And as far as I can tell, they do not rely on the cultural systems of the Seekers and Keepers, because there is no need to, and may form more monogamous family groups within the tribe.
This would not seem that odd in the miqo'te standing out, save that during one of the quests, a veira male has a chance to get to know a shetona male, and they realize, despite the differences of their peoples, they operate under a similar system of the male being fewer, and roaming to have offspring. Their culture is different, but not the fundamentals of their kind.
So why are the miqo'te and hhetsarro so different? There is every chance that it was simply something glossed over by the devs, as people have suggested, but I had another idea spring to mind that at least manages to make sense of it from a lore standpoint.
One thing we knew about Eorzea is that it is suffused with aether, more so than anywhere else on the star. We also know that there were twenty-six miqo'te tribes when they migrated into Eorzea during the age of ice, but what is not stated is whether those original tribes were already following the customs we see of Seekers and Keepers of the current era. These customs are mostly in place because of the low birth rate of male miqo'te to female miqo'te.
What if they didn't originally follow those customs, and their numbers were originally more evenly split like those of the hhetsarro? What if, over time, the unusual conditions in Eorzea somehow had an impact on the miqo'te, just something about their unique traits compared to the other races, and slowly their birth ratios became skewed?
Again, I do not know if this holds any water. It was merely an interesting possible explanation that popped into my head, and I thought it would be worth it to share.
Only time, and the devs, will ever be able to tell us what really happened, or it will forever remain glossed over in time.
Continue reading...
Oh, the things you think of in the shower.
So, ever since I met the Hhetsarro in Dawntrail, this has been bothering me.
Just running around the current camping site of the tribe we have met, and the surrounding areas of Shaaloani where you see the highest concentrations of their numbers, I did some counting, and came to the conclusion that, unlike the miqo'te, there seems to be a rough 50/50 split of males to females, more like the hyur, elezen and lalafel. And as far as I can tell, they do not rely on the cultural systems of the Seekers and Keepers, because there is no need to, and may form more monogamous family groups within the tribe.
This would not seem that odd in the miqo'te standing out, save that during one of the quests, a veira male has a chance to get to know a shetona male, and they realize, despite the differences of their peoples, they operate under a similar system of the male being fewer, and roaming to have offspring. Their culture is different, but not the fundamentals of their kind.
So why are the miqo'te and hhetsarro so different? There is every chance that it was simply something glossed over by the devs, as people have suggested, but I had another idea spring to mind that at least manages to make sense of it from a lore standpoint.
One thing we knew about Eorzea is that it is suffused with aether, more so than anywhere else on the star. We also know that there were twenty-six miqo'te tribes when they migrated into Eorzea during the age of ice, but what is not stated is whether those original tribes were already following the customs we see of Seekers and Keepers of the current era. These customs are mostly in place because of the low birth rate of male miqo'te to female miqo'te.
What if they didn't originally follow those customs, and their numbers were originally more evenly split like those of the hhetsarro? What if, over time, the unusual conditions in Eorzea somehow had an impact on the miqo'te, just something about their unique traits compared to the other races, and slowly their birth ratios became skewed?
Again, I do not know if this holds any water. It was merely an interesting possible explanation that popped into my head, and I thought it would be worth it to share.
Only time, and the devs, will ever be able to tell us what really happened, or it will forever remain glossed over in time.
Continue reading...