(11-06-2015, 11:27 PM)Sounsyy Wrote: As far as the Miqo'te discussion goes, while its possible that Allag mutated and altered the species into a cat crossbreed, Miqo'te were once populous upon the southern continent of Meracydia, which defended against Allag for almost its entire 1,000 year history. While POWs, like Phlegethon, were very likely used for experimentation purposes (as well as hunting and target practice) we're talking a small portion of a population being altered and then subsequently being hunted for sport or obliterated during the Earthquake.
Wouldn't the larger population of native Miqo'te on Meracydia, who survived the atrocities of Allag be the ones who carried on the species? Especially considering we have lore now stating the Miqo'te left Meracydia during the 5th Umbral Era, 2000 years later and that's how the tribes we know today came to be in Eorzea. So, while an interesting theory, it doesn't quite add up. It's not like the Iksalions who were created by the Allagans and then introduced to the wild. Miqo'te pre-dated the Allagans and only a small fraction of them at best could've been mutated.
Do you know of any lore suggesting the miqo'te were in Meracydia during the time of Allag? We know that it was largely a dravanian country/continent during the time of Allag, based on what Tiamat talks to us about in Azys Lla. They came over in the 5th Umbral Era, yes, but they could have been there between the 3rd Astral and then, as opposed to being natives of Meracydia. I'm thinking of a situation where Allag constructed the miqo'te during the height of their power -- perhaps as something Allagan people did to themselves for augmentation, or perhaps to build a race of slaves -- and some of them were in Meracydia after it was conquered. When the Empire fell, they were the race that survived there (I'm thinking of the ground dwellers in Chrono Trigger, by analogue). Absent the Empire and other influences, they formed a culture and ultimately lost their history to the ravages of time.
Of course, that all falls apart if we have evidence that miqo'te were on Meracydia during the time of Allag. The implication I read in Azys Lla is that the continent was populated by dravanians only, but I may have missed something!
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