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Reasons for leaving the Steeps-Qestir


Zanther

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Ok, so I have myself a Qestir who I'm currently leveling within the game but made to rp with.

 

I'm just having trouble figuring out a good rp angle to take him and so was wondering what other Qestir players have for reasons for leaving their home and traveling to Eorzia.

 

I've been leaning on a "With the influx of foreigners into the Steeps after Doma's liberation, he has gone to Eorzia to find goods that can be safely traded in the Steeps and not upset the balance" which is leading me to find a merchant rp group if I go this angle.

 

I'm just trying to see what other options there could be as I take him through ARR and eventually HW and SB.

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I'd say that your aforementioned idea works well enough. Could also be a personal mission to gather information about the outside world. As a few of the quests showed, understanding each other is vital--maybe your Qestir wants to get ahead of the curve. Then maybe there's just a personal desire to get away from the Steppe and see what's beyond their borders.

 

I imagine that with all that's happened, more and more of the Xaela will likely grow curious about what kind of world their guests came from, and how it forged them into who they are.

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I have a much neglected Qestir alt of my own, and the reasoning in which she had left was that she spoke inside her tribe just once under circumstances that made sense for an outcry but still was quite damnable from a Qestir perspective. The action was not tolerated as it even came between their attempts of keeping order, and she was exiled with no chance for immediate redemption. Being a bit prideful and already hungering to see more of the world, she wandered through the Steppes to see what she hadn't yet, and finally wound up at a port loudly boasting ferrying to Eorzea. After a bit of thought, she conceded, "Why not. I've nothing left for me here."

 

What you said works well enough I'd think and I'd encourage you to think about your Qestir's possible homesickness, because I think xaela are a great opportunity to explore that theme!

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Hey there! Fellow Qestir (now exiled kek) 

I personally had it to where she was a Qestir whom traded out in Reunion, and happened to fall in love with an Ala Mhigan, not understanding a lick of what he was speaking but felt a connection. He proposed, which was the only way he knew how to tell her he wanted to be with her and she went to her tribesmen to gain their blessing. Now mind you Xaela are super xenophobic, so her speaking of marrying a Highlander is quite a taboo thing, thus her tribe ousted her from the tribe.

There is actually a tidbit of lore from the Qestir that you could use as well:

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Members of the Qestir Tribe of Xaela refuse to speak, believing that all words are lies, and that a man's actions are the purest form of communication. Because of this vow of silence, Qestiri tribesmen spend their early lives without the concept of spoken words, never encountering them until they meet outsiders for the first time. Even if they attempted to speak, their words would be inarticulate, having grown up in silence. While there is no direct punishment for a member of the tribe speaking in the presence of his or her people, to do so would see the person in question ostracized, forever branded a liar.

So from that, you could have it to where your Qestir spoke once around someone whom they thought they could trust, whom in turn went to the elder and had you ousted, or something along those lines. :) 

Now, if you're looking for a reason for your character to go without becoming an exile, Qestir are known to be the ones whom opened up the trading hub called Reunion, so it'd be pretty neat if you did something where you got permission from your Elder to go open more trade routes in Eorzea. 

 

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