(08-03-2015, 10:03 AM)Verad Wrote: And really, there are lots of ways it could go further. Presuming the argument that Eorzea is pretty racist when reading between the lines to be true, I could easily see a darker interpretation of Gridania in which men come in the night to deal with the new Duskwight that's shown up in the village and been causing all sorts of trouble with the elementals (they're sure he's the one, he has to be). I could see well-off nobles in Ishgard playing all sorts of games with the Hyur masses for sport, because really, who matters that would actually care as long as there isn't a big fuss about it? The possibility of violence against Ala Mhigans in Ul'dah goes without saying, and Limsa's piratical tendencies could allow for pirate gangs of a specific breed that give no quarter against any other.
Actually, the stuff you outlined in Gridania probably does happen in more isolated, out-of-the-way villages where Conjurers and Wailers pass through more rarely. And we already know that the Ishgard nobles have been toying with Hyur women (and probably men, too) for hundreds of years now. Â There are enough NPC comments as you wander around to make it clear that most of the servant staff are Hyur, and that the women are often "meddled with." Â Hilda is another great example of that.