(04-15-2015, 06:40 AM)Meena Wrote:(04-15-2015, 06:06 AM)Lekka Meyren Wrote: As others have stated almost perfectly with memes... Here we go again.I don't see how being a minority IRL plays into this - I mean, this is not a realistic setting. Its a setting with dragons and thousands of years of racial tensions and legitimate reasons for exclusion.
I'm going to simply ask: Do they need a reason, really? I mean as long as they're not making up their own lore wildly and deciding to be a vampire tribe of Mi'qote Ishgardians who secretly run the place.. Why should they need to justify themselves.
I agree with all exceptions obviously, if you're just out to completely break lore to play your own thing; then expect people to take issue simply because they don't want their character influenced by things that seem inherently "wrong" in their character arcs.
...But as a minority in real life I have a little bit of a hard time not having some cynicism around this line of thinking. Gods know we have enough of an IRL problem of the majority experience being expected and all minority experiences being doubted or pushed into neat little boxes to fit the narrative.
Tl;DR: If it's not ruining your character arc in some way and it's not completely cross with the lore - It's highly likely you're overthinking it from the perspective of a majority experience.
It's not that freaking unlikely that some mi'qote walked up north at some stage.
I understand there are issues with people who begin to play the game without any knowledge, my questioning is why don't those players or peoples go about correcting their lore or characters to fit the setting. Especially those who have been playing for a while now.
Sure you aren't harming anyone - but why disregard the work the lore devs and such have put into the game by working in to be a special snowflake?
Unfortunately, IRL does play into this, especially if you pay attention to OP's examples that allude to real life. This is the same kind of logic that would say you can't cosplay as a black Link or be a black samurai. This is the same kind of logic that supposes that medieval fantasy universes should have sexism in their worlds because it "makes more sense." OP may not be able to realize it, but when you are saying that certain races should be certain things because it would be too "extraordinary" it does imply something.
But anyway, if the issue is only with miqo'te being certain things that they would be "unlikely" to be, then there isn't any spectacular answer. The answer is simply that miqo'te are the most popular race, or the second most popular race if we go by the census. You can't really help what people like. I chose to make a roegadyn who doesn't really know anything about her culture.Â
Technically, I fit your bill of "characters who go against the grain." I suppose a miqo'te would have been more "fitting" for a character who grew up wild and feral. But I didn't choose that race because I like roegadyn better. The only difference between a miqo'te role player and myself is that I just so happen to like something that is not as popular. But I can guarantee you that I didn't choose roegadyn as a race for any other reason decides: "That race looks cool. I want to be it."
