(11-07-2015, 12:56 AM)Sounsyy Wrote:(11-06-2015, 11:44 PM)FreelanceWizard Wrote: 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!
There's no strict connection placing Miqo'te firmly within Meracydia at the time of Allag, so I yield that the theory is plausible, however I still hold that the theory feels off and far too convoluted for me personally to get behind. Suppose the Allagans did genetically create Miqo'te, which is a possibility, why then is 90-100% of the Miqo'te population found on Meracydia thereafter and not in Eorzea or elsewhere, lands that Allag had actually fully conquered during their supremacy? Why aren't there Miqo'te in Azys Lla? Even the Mannequins are Hyuran.
At best, we can place the cat-like Miqo'te race firmly existing by the latter 100-200 years of the Allag Empire. G'raha Tia's Miqo'te ancestor, was an aide to the last princess of Allag, Salina.
NOAH Report Wrote:Their heartfelt pleas reach the last remaining princess of Allag. She took it upon herself to see their prayers realized, and entrusted her blood to her most trusted aide.
So if the Allagans created the Miqo'te to serve them, again, how did a significant, sustainable population end up in Meracydia? They weren't used as soldiers - late Allag did not use living, breathing armies. Their only flesh and blood soldiers were their generals, who were mostly Summoners.
I personally don't think they created them as living weapons or servants, like the ixalion. I'm thinking more that they were just a genetic modification on the basic hyur template, used for appearance or augmentation purposes. Amon's an example of Allag engaging in genetic engineering for augmentation; I can see a society that's described a lot like Solaris from Xenogears doing all kinds of weird stuff.
A further interesting question, though, is if miqo'te were on Meracydia around the time of Allag and the dravanians, why do neither of them mention them at all?
Though in either case, the easiest explanation is that the devs haven't brought it into the story space and haven't fixed it in stone yet!
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