There also seems to be a strong sense of purism in Ishgard that blankets over every aspect of Ishgardian life. This leads to things like hating crossbreeds between elezen and hyur, attempts to suppress and control the lower class and lowborn (they are not pure and born of the high houses), and pretty much everything else. I first started noticing this in the BTN questline, then went back to look at other quests and there is definitely a sense of purity.
In the BTN storyline, you've been helping Basyle try to grow food in the Sea of Clouds, which is pretty inhospitable for plant life. So you end up helping him crossbreed seeds. He nearly gets sent to the Tribunal for crossbreeding seeds, growing foreign crops on Ishgardian soil, tainting all the crops with their impurity. Poor Basyle nearly gets killed over freaking impure seeds. Ishgard values its purity over everything else.
I think an important thing to note, at least in regards to hyur vs elezen is that hyur were just starting to integrate into Eorzean society at nearly the same time that Haldrath and all of them encountered Nidhogg
Midlanders are pretty good at meshing with society, giving up their own roots to take up the traditions of the land they call home. MSQ specifically states that Ishgardians were only elezen at the time, leading us to believe that hyur integrated at a later date. When exactly, who knows.
Now if you look at the npcs, most of the nobles are elezen, but you do come across a few hyur ladies. There's one in particular outside of the Astrologicum chatting with an Elezen lady. She also interestingly enough has an elezen manservant. Your contact in the WVR questline is also a hyur lady (who falls in love with a lowborn. I don't know the end of the story yet, but I doubt this will end well).
Hyur definitely are not members of the high houses, but there are definitely a handful of noble houses in the city that are hyurian, midlanders specifically.
I got carried away, I think, but I'd say that both racism and classism are pretty prevalent in Ishgard, but personally, I think the foundation is in purism and keeping Ishgard as pure as possible.
In the BTN storyline, you've been helping Basyle try to grow food in the Sea of Clouds, which is pretty inhospitable for plant life. So you end up helping him crossbreed seeds. He nearly gets sent to the Tribunal for crossbreeding seeds, growing foreign crops on Ishgardian soil, tainting all the crops with their impurity. Poor Basyle nearly gets killed over freaking impure seeds. Ishgard values its purity over everything else.
I think an important thing to note, at least in regards to hyur vs elezen is that hyur were just starting to integrate into Eorzean society at nearly the same time that Haldrath and all of them encountered Nidhogg
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- Hyur begin to migrate to Eorzea in three great migratory waves.
- Founding fathers of Ishgard encounter Nidhogg. Haldrath takes up his slain sire's lancer and thrusts it into Nidhogg's eye, the first Dragoon is born.
Midlanders are pretty good at meshing with society, giving up their own roots to take up the traditions of the land they call home. MSQ specifically states that Ishgardians were only elezen at the time, leading us to believe that hyur integrated at a later date. When exactly, who knows.
Now if you look at the npcs, most of the nobles are elezen, but you do come across a few hyur ladies. There's one in particular outside of the Astrologicum chatting with an Elezen lady. She also interestingly enough has an elezen manservant. Your contact in the WVR questline is also a hyur lady (who falls in love with a lowborn. I don't know the end of the story yet, but I doubt this will end well).
Hyur definitely are not members of the high houses, but there are definitely a handful of noble houses in the city that are hyurian, midlanders specifically.
I got carried away, I think, but I'd say that both racism and classism are pretty prevalent in Ishgard, but personally, I think the foundation is in purism and keeping Ishgard as pure as possible.
