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RE: Keepers in the Shroud questions - Nako Vesh - 04-30-2015
(04-30-2015, 04:05 PM)Manari Wrote: I haven't RPed in a very long time, but I'm glad to see there are finally some other traditional Keepers around. Â Even right after ARR started there were almost none of us. Â
I've been trying my best to RP a very traditional Keeper of the Moon since early 1.0. Â Collecting lore tidbits has been very hard up until 2.0 happened, but it's always seemed to me that Keepers of the Moon had a complicated history with Gridania and Wildwoods. Â I always felt like I should RP getting along with Duskwights and RP having issues with Wildwoods. Â
I combed through all the Gridania quests that I could for lore, but it seems like the previous posters found a few more things than I could. Â
I just wanted to add that it was always my personal feeling that truly traditional Keepers would probably be far more loyal to the Twelveswood as a whole and care less about Gridania specifically. Â I've always RPed Manari as being very eager to bond with other Keepers that she meets, yet also having a burning hatred for the poachers that have made her life hard by giving her a bad reputation, regardless of the fact that they, too, are Keepers.
This is very similar to how I RP Nako, except her family-tribe were poachers. Since separating from her tribe, she has come to learn how harmful that is. She now strives for balance in the Twelveswood, less for Gridania, and more for the wood itself which she considers her true home.
Since Nako grew up like most traditional Keepers, in a small family-tribe, I also RP her as sometimes getting "social shock" in big cities or large gatherings. She's a friendly sort, but her Keeper need for quiet and solitude has her going for days long fishing trips alone, to sort of "recharge her batteries."
RE: Keepers in the Shroud questions - Knight Kat - 05-01-2015
(04-30-2015, 04:05 PM)Manari Wrote: I haven't RPed in a very long time, but I'm glad to see there are finally some other traditional Keepers around. Even right after ARR started there were almost none of us.
I just wanted to add that it was always my personal feeling that truly traditional Keepers would probably be far more loyal to the Twelveswood as a whole and care less about Gridania specifically. I've always RPed Manari as being very eager to bond with other Keepers that she meets, yet also having a burning hatred for the poachers that have made her life hard by giving her a bad reputation, regardless of the fact that they, too, are Keepers.
This is very much how I play Kiht too. I've been playing her for over a year, so her story is long, and has branched out into many other plots. She has developed to become more worldly as a result. However, at the end of the night, she still returns to her group's cottage in the Black Shroud to share meat from hunted game with them near a fire.
RE: Keepers in the Shroud questions - Qhora Bajihri - 05-01-2015
I think the answer to the question of hatred/wariness is generally no, it's not major, especially as I'd expect "adventurers" are a pretty common sight to most average townsfolk, and a Keeper adventurer probably wouldn't cause a second glance. Not to mention the number of average townsfolk Keepers who are average townsfolk. Now if you have an average townsfolk who has a good reason to be worried about poachers or who has a background steeped in hatred, then your Keeper might see it, so any given Keeper is probably aware of such reactions, even if they haven't caused a problem for them in particular. But I can't imagine walking into Gridania and getting mobbed with torches and pitchforks. To the grand majority of the populace, a Keeper would just be another member of said populace, unless they've been given reason to think otherwise of that particular individual.
My Keeper is not at all traditional, but I'm okay with that. She's got a dash of the tradition-breaking father akin to (and simultaneously nothing like) the Postmoogle questline along with a pinch of poacher/bandit culture from her mother, mixed in with attempts to rejoin traditional culture after the Calamity, all of which combined to give her an actual hatred/wariness of traditional Keeper culture. Given all that, it comes up almost never. It's just the kind of thing that seethes in the background for her.
RE: Keepers in the Shroud questions - Blue - 05-08-2015
(04-30-2015, 05:40 PM)Takia_Venn Wrote:(04-30-2015, 04:51 PM)Manari Wrote: Now Seekers of the Sun, those girls are everywhere. Â I found tons of them in La Nocsea and Thanalan, of course. Â But there are also a surprisingly large amount of them even in the Black Shroud. Â I found this interesting to take note of.
Slightly off topic but I think poor Taki'a is completely confused and slightly disturbed by Seeker girls. Seeker culture is a demented inversion of Keeper culture (his perspective) and he finds it baffling. Most of the non-Keeper cultures are like that, so he has regular culture shock I suppose
Jet'a Vann here is also a Keeper born and raised in the Shroud (at least till he was taken away from there by force). He is EXTREMELY conservative and traditional, very proud of his heritage (the Miqo'te naming conventions state that some Keeper surnames have been lasting since the First Astral Era, and I RP the Vann surname to be one of them), and regards Seekers and their society with major distrust and annoyance too. One sure way to get on his bad side is to call him or compare him to a Seeker...!
Just the other day, Blade made the mistake of mixing up his Miqo'te colture and asked Jet'a if he was planningo to turn his own sister in a sort of she-Nuhn for the reforming of their family. That was quickly answered with a blizzard spell in the Midlander's crotch >_>
But yes, Shroud Keeper pride! *raises fist!*