Loonymonkey Wrote:The race descriptions are.. alittle extreme id think. You can talk to any of the races and yes theres hints of the tendencies, but not to the extremes the descriptions imply. Mother, a light elf in gridania just tells you to watch the dusks and be carefule, but she just makes it sound as if they are on hard times rather than evil traiters and criminals.
Eva Wrote:Sorry to join this discussion late.
I've taken a lot of the clan/racial stuff to be typical stereotyping which isn't necessarily always true. Perhaps a subsect of the clan has given the entire group an unpleasant reputation. For whatever it's worth, my own character, also a female duskwight that lives in Ul'dah, doesn't conform to these rumors. Eva is more of a neutral-good duskwight.
The clan/race stuff isn't stereotyping so much as it is generalities. Generalities that may be influenced by culture as much as ethnicity. (At least until SE says otherwise) there are legitimate reasons for the generalities made about each clan -- but just as most people don't let their race or nationality define who they are in real life, the clan your character is from probably shouldn't define your character.
The important thing is this: You are an individual before you are a member of your race.
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