(08-11-2015, 12:02 PM)Manari Wrote: I suppose my question is whether or not the lore about Miqo'te states if the Keepers and Seekers migrated together, or did they split into different clans after migrating as one race?
Well, Miqo'te Naming Conventions says that Keepers of the Moon have existed since the First Astral Era roughly 8-10,000 years ago. If their names and traditions have survived that long, it's unlikely that there was some great "Clan division event" like Duskwight and Wildwood Elezen. Unless, of course, Keeper Miqo'te were the first and Seekers divided from the Keepers?
But yes, the theory I mentioned above is focused towards Seekers, not so much Keepers. We know now that Miqo'te originally came from Meracydia, the Southern Continent, and only large landmass we know in Hydaelyn's southern hemisphere. What little we know of its geography is that there's a desert in Meracydia's northern region and we can assume that (because all dragon-kin we've seen live in/near mountains) that there was a mountainous region elsewhere in the continent - possibly to the far south in Meracydia's colder regions.
This makes sense geographically if we look at Allag's assault on Meracydia. The war had raged on for years before the Dragons summoned Bahamut. Yet, we know the Miqo'te lands were ravaged. By that point in history, Allag had probably razed most of the northern, desert regions of Meracydia while the war still raged on to occupy the southern mountains where dragons lived. This would also account for how the Allagans brought Miqo'te (who were enemies of Allag) into the Allagan Empire.
Rambling aside, it's possible that, because of Keepers nocturnal inclination, the Clan lived separately in another region of Meracydia, either in the southern mountains with the dragons or in some deep dark forest or jungle elsewhere on the continent. When the Age of Endless Frost came and some of the Keeper families chose to abandon their homelands for the north they might have sought to live in an area most similar to those their people had lived in for thousands of years. Considering Eorzea only has two large, dark, temperate expanses of forest region (The Black Shroud and The Orn Wild) Keeper Miqo'te isolated themselves to these two places - or, as Fernehalwes mentioned, migrated to places other than Eorzea, while Seekers found the Eorzean regions of Thanalan and Vylbrand to be suitable.
Fernehalwes Wrote:There are many Keeper of the Moon family names that have been passed down through the generations.
The ones you see in-game represent some of the more prominent families that once crossed the frozen seas into Eorzea in search for prey. That does not mean that these are all the names available. There are some families who have chosen to live more secluded lives, and simply have not made an appearance in-game yet. There are also the families who remained in their homeland, or emigrated to lands other than Eorzea.
Another possible explanation as to why Keeper Males also have tear marks... Keeper males are nomadic wanderers who rarely stay with their family and prefer to move from location to location. While they may prefer to travel at night, maybe the tear marks are there for when diurnal travel/hunting becomes a necessity? The sun can still glare through a forest sometimes.
IDK. As I said before, not much lore to support any of this, just theorycrafting based on what we've got.
