(08-31-2015, 11:42 PM)Sounsyy Wrote: snip
To be honest, this seems to be just as speculative as anything else that's been stated in this thread.
Dravania is open territory, with more than one point of access. Anyone could have gotten in there, and Q'yantaa is not only heavily implied as being new to the camp in the quest text...
"Among many other facts, you learn that the prospect of a quick fortune brings many inexperienced hunters to Tailfeather in hopes of joining in on the lucrative chocobo hunting trade. He introduces you to Q'yantaa, a young Miqo'te who wishes to fill her pockets in the Dravanian forelands."
...She is also actually stated to be new to the area by Loupard, the head hunter:
"'Course, you can't forget those that're just here for a quick bucketful of gil--chasin' the gold chocobo, so to speak. The promise of riches brings new blood from all over Eorzea... Ain't that right, Q'yantaa?"
Additionally, just because there are miqo'te in Coerthas does not mean that they would be readily accepted in Ishgardian society, or that they are within that society at all. L'khonebb could have easily made their way into the city to work for the Ironworks installation there by Cid, or merely came after the gates opened. If someone snuck into Ishgard, regardless of their race, it's very unlikely that they would be taught an art considered to be the holy dragon-slaying ways of the Forefathers. We also have no idea when that Miqo'te snuck in, so I'm not convinced they're relevant to the point being made in the first place.
Also, no information has been provided on those other miqo'te but pictures. They could be anything as it stands; traders in the area, hired help, hunters, we don't actually know. Ishgard was still closed at that point, so I doubt that they were moving in and out if they weren't part of the culture already.
Culturally-speaking, even if a miqo'te family had been established there for generations, it seems more likely that they would be considered foreigners anyway because they have an appearance that does not match anything else seen in the country.
Lastly, assuming that things Could Be So seems a little shaky, because it opens up all sorts of directions that don't have much grounding; I think this is part of the reason why people are hesitant to accept speculation in general. It Could Be So that people can come from kingdoms not mentioned in the Lore, there's nothing there that states that those places don't exist. It Could Be So that your character could be an Allagan android in the shape of a hyur, the Lore doesn't explicitly state that that's impossible. It Could Be So that your character found and now has use of an Allagan spaceship, they built a moon after all.
So the problem arises that if we think about What Could Be So, we open up a whole boatload of other tangents ranging from the Actually Plausible to the Totally Ridiculous, and then the Lore can get even more messy than it already is. Choosing where the line stops when it comes to assumptions can become practically impossible, and that's just not something that a lot of people are willing to deal with. There's also the problem that anything that can be assumed to be one way, can easily be assumed to be the opposite, which leads us to the current position that we are in now.
I don't raise a fuss over that sort of thing if it comes up in RP, because I'll roll with it with minimal issue on a personal level. But for the sake of organized discussions such as this, where we're trying to forge a deeper understanding of the lore, a distinction regarding when the assumptions start and stop is important, because it forms the basis for further argumentation.
Also, that far east Miqo'te has a standard Eorzean name from the S-tribe. It's likely she's just a trader that does business with Domans, or sailors from that area.
