(10-15-2013, 09:24 PM)Nako Vesh Wrote: I like the ideas and creativity you have going here, and I was thinking we might have to have a player-made Keeper compendium sooner or later if SE didn't provide more lore.Â
I do question a few points however. As brought up in this thread, we don't have a whole lot of real life matriarchal societies to draw upon when imagining the Keepers, but there are a few. I was personally quite taken with the idea that, like the Mosuo, Miqote might take mating/coupling/relationships in a far less formal tone than you have suggested here.
It makes sense to me that a society that highly values physicality in the form of hunting and sport, would put less emphasis on social status or class through other means. I personally see them as gaining status almost entirely through prowess in battle, while some reverence is based bloodlines. I personally don't see "class" playing a part much at all.
Quote:Each member within the community is expected to hold a skill-set vital to the success of the commune. While difficult, the climb can and has been made from the bottom of the social ranking toward the top and into a house of influence.ÂI don't really think Keepers should veer into the area of family houses personally. I like the idea of small tribes better.
I hadn't seen that thread! I'll have to read into it, now!Â
I think my goal with the quite different shift in cultural ways was to be just that, different. I mean they diverged for a reason, right? So while seekers are tribal and 'primitive' for lack of a better term since my brain is in sleepy time mode right now, Keepers have stepped beyond that towards a world of industry and trade (something I think, from examples of the U tribe in game, that some Seekers struggle with).Â
With that would come a shift in value that's placed on physicality and battle prowess(seekers) and lean it in toward wealth and status.Â
This of course is a generalization by any definition. Some Keepers may very well be more similar to Seekers still with the only difference being the shift in Nuhn/male roles.Â
I thought there would be /should be some shift in the relationships as well. While the seekers tend to be polyamorous, I understand the Keepers to lean more toward to monogamy. The structure of the higher class's "courtship" seemed to fit with a matriarchy as well as still cling to some sort of tribal ancestry. Â Freedom would be found in the majority of the population within the normal/lower castes.Â
As to the house phrasing, I think I just worded it incorrectly. I didn't mean they had literal houses.. although it does fit with my structure, I suppose. There, though, I merely meant they would gain affluence.Â
All very thought worthy points though, thank you!!
Quote:This topic has been poked at to death many times in the past, my favorite post on the subject can be found herehttp://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/showthread.php?tid=2961). I'm not saying you have to accept it, but it does make reasonable conclusions regarding what a fantastical culture with these features would be like.Thank you for this! I will be removing my post as I believe my largely under formed idea of the timeline is problematic. My ideas require far too much time to have passed to allow such evolution of the race's cultures.
At the end of the day, play what you play, right?
It always makes for an interesting story!