(07-10-2015, 12:34 PM)Blue Wrote: One thing I was never legitimately sure was whether you'd need to count sisters also when naming a Miqo'te male. For example, if a male Miqo'te is born after two females sisters, is he to be named with the suffix 'a (because he is the first male to be born), or 'li (because he is the third to be born from his mother, after sister 1 and sister 2)? SE never clarified that.
To avoid any mistake I made my Miqo'te male be a firstborn.
(Also I'd like to reiterate that the Keepers "clans" are a case of lore established by the community, not the game, and you are not forced to embrace it. I for example prefer to think Keepers simply live in matriarchal families, not clans. Keepers are by lore more solitary and introvert than Seekers, so I find it more fitting to believe they stick to smaller groups. It's a lore-hole that anyone can really fill the way they want to, I suppose.)
It's pretty clear to me that it's birth order of males.
First son: 'a
Second second: 'to
And so on.
Even if you're born after two sisters you're still the first son. Even if five sisters are born afterwards, your brother will still be the second son and thereby be named Whatever'to Whatever.
As to the second part of your post, Keepers of the Moon living in clans is not community headcanon.
Here's a quote from the naming conventions.
Quote:The Keepers of the Moon lead more solitary lives, rarely forming communities of more than two or three families. Therefore, a tribal letter is not assigned to the names.
So while the use of the specific word Clan is not present here, a group of two or three close-knit families is the precise definition of a clan.
Anyway, call them what you want. Clans or communities. They do still live in small groups of inter-related or close knit families, though never more than two or three families.
Talks the talk, and walks the walk.
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Serious, lore-abiding, mature roleplayer.
