And maybe Ala Mhigo is predominantly Highlander. I mean, nowhere on Earth has equal racial distributions. There is always one majority race. That doesn't mean it's not diverse. Â
Let's take my home state of Indiana, for example. 7 million people, 86% of them are white. 9% of Indiana residents are black. So whites are the vast majority. Yet that still means there are over 600,000 black people living in Indiana.Â
Now, this is gonna be a lot of speculation, but hear me out. I'm gonna guess that Eorzean city states are probably similar in population to Greek city states. So Ala Mhigo, during peace time, probably had about 300,000 residents. Now lets say Lalafells in Ala Mhigo were as rare as black people in Indiana (which is probably a low estimate, I'd think). That means there would be at least 27,000 miqo'te in Ala Mhigo. A small minority of the whole, but still a shitload of people.Â
So if we're using the idea that in-game populations are a small representation of the whole, then I think ideas like miqo'te Ishgardians become stronger, not weaker. In 1.0 there were, what, a hundred or so Ishgardian NPCs? And one of them was miqo'te, right? So if we scale that up to the full population of Ishgard, again probably a few hundred thousand, that still means hundreds or even thousands of miqo'te living in Ishgard. If the MCH guy turns out to be a real thing, that number doubles.Â
We can't call it a microcosm, and then turn around and say that only *some* things are part of this microcosm, and others aren't.
edit: Hey, I'm heading off to bed, but I'm really enjoying this exchange so I'll definitely be checking back in here in the morning.
Let's take my home state of Indiana, for example. 7 million people, 86% of them are white. 9% of Indiana residents are black. So whites are the vast majority. Yet that still means there are over 600,000 black people living in Indiana.Â
Now, this is gonna be a lot of speculation, but hear me out. I'm gonna guess that Eorzean city states are probably similar in population to Greek city states. So Ala Mhigo, during peace time, probably had about 300,000 residents. Now lets say Lalafells in Ala Mhigo were as rare as black people in Indiana (which is probably a low estimate, I'd think). That means there would be at least 27,000 miqo'te in Ala Mhigo. A small minority of the whole, but still a shitload of people.Â
So if we're using the idea that in-game populations are a small representation of the whole, then I think ideas like miqo'te Ishgardians become stronger, not weaker. In 1.0 there were, what, a hundred or so Ishgardian NPCs? And one of them was miqo'te, right? So if we scale that up to the full population of Ishgard, again probably a few hundred thousand, that still means hundreds or even thousands of miqo'te living in Ishgard. If the MCH guy turns out to be a real thing, that number doubles.Â
We can't call it a microcosm, and then turn around and say that only *some* things are part of this microcosm, and others aren't.
edit: Hey, I'm heading off to bed, but I'm really enjoying this exchange so I'll definitely be checking back in here in the morning.
