Hydaelyn Role-Players

Hello! A few know me better as Arianne, my elezen. However, I did come to this game with a friend and we decided we wanted to play a pair as siblings. We went with Keeper of the Moon Miqo'te. I tend to be the more lore crazy of the two and dive a bit deeper into it than he does

Here are some of the things we are having trouble ironing out.

(1) When he made his character, he ended it with 'ir because it had a similiar sound to what he had in other games, however this would place him as a sixth son in a female dominant race. Are Keeper females known for having large families? If so, I suppose it is possible that their mother could have been at the end of her childbearing years when she had him.

(2) My Miqo'te is his sister, yet their coloring is very different. When I made the character, I made her how I liked her, but it has been brought to my attention since then Keepers tend to be either lighter skinned or more of a dark grey or blue. My keeper is a dark brown with light hair/fur. If this is true, I am not against making her father be a Seeker and her mother be a Keeper to explain her coloring, but I need to know for sure.

Seeing as this is an alt for me, I hadn't put much thought into it, but I am hoping to help my friend and I have a more solid background especially since his Keeper is his main. I have been reading over every bit of lore I can find on the Keepers, but these are a couple things I am still unsure of. Any insight is greatly appreciated.

With the number system I had a similar issue, I didnt know the number meant six and so I blended the clan make of my characters previous tribe to work like this.

3 families
One female from the third family raises -all- the sons of the clan and numbers them by age as her own children so the huntresses are free to focus on their duties rather than on sons who can be taught what they need to know by 1-2 people.

Male keepers are known to wander and pick mates from a various amount of options, you could still be related and have different fathers - there are darker skinned males and females in game - just rarer.

(10-07-2013, 04:48 PM)Arianne Wrote: [ -> ](2) My Miqo'te is his sister, yet their coloring is very different. When I made the character, I made her how I liked her, but it has been brought to my attention since then Keepers tend to be either lighter skinned or more of a dark grey or blue. My keeper is a dark brown with light hair/fur. If this is true, I am not against making her half father be a Seeker and her mother be a Keeper, but I need to know for sure.

The NPCs in the game itself are rarely consistent with the given descriptions. Many of the prevalent Keepers go against the whole 'Keepers are furry Drow' look. And I've seen very few NPC Seekers with a healthy looking tan compared to the fair skinned. I honestly wouldn't fret over it too much. Siblings of different colorings are common enough with real cats, some take after neither parent at all. I can't see any reason why you can't have two different colored Miqo'te be siblings.

That said, Keeper families are not suppose to have many male children. But, if the suffix exists, and you prefer the look of it, I don't see a reason not to keep it. Just make sure your friend knows that it's a rather uncommon thing and write around it accordingly.

I do like her coloring and while I didn't have a problem making her part seeker, it's good to know I have some wiggle room and don't have to necessarily go that direction.

One thing we are considering is her's mother adopting a couple male children into her clan when they were young. He could have kept his late mother's name, but been given the suffix 'ir to indicate his position among the other males. That's assuming Miqo'te would do such a thing, I suppose.

Lore says even in large Keeper families it is rare to have more than two (maybe three) sons, because females are born more often. Which isn't to say it's impossible, just uncommon. But if all six come from the same mother, and not from an arrangement like Naih'ir's, this may have some form of impact.

I have a Keeper boy who is the 2nd son of a very large family. My headcanon for him is that being male and the 2nd male at that, he is largely ignored by his mother.

But! Keepers live in small familial communities, not large tribes like Seekers, so it gives a lot of wiggle room - what is the norm in one community may not be the norm in the next. So it's entirely possible to make it so that in the community your characters come from, adoption is a pretty normal thing, and so is keeping the late mother's name, and so forth.

I'm roleplaying my Keeper of the Moon, Zagi'zi as the ninth son of a desperate old cruel matriarch who for some strange reason (the other families believed it was a curse) could not have a female heir. Her girls would either be stillborn, or die before five of sickness or accidents. She continued trying, however, and had nine sons and a single daughter at last (A cruel, spoiled, and despicable child who made Zagi'zi's life miserable.)

As a result, Zagi'zi learned early on to rely on his intellect to outmaneuver his sister and mother and stay alive.

Just a little something I came up to make it work.  /shrug