(10-13-2016, 09:11 AM)FreelanceWizard Wrote:(10-13-2016, 08:43 AM)Kilieit Wrote: U'odh is telling you that's the way the U tribe works, not the way that Seeker tribes in general work.
I'm going to make the possibly provocative claim that the U tribe is, indeed, representative of Seeker tribes. If you do the side quest lines out there, you find that the tia basically run the tribe. The FATEs suggest that some of the women have combat or spiritual leadership positions, but it's the tia who give the orders and handle the day to day leadership. U'odh can make pronouncements as he wishes, but ultimately, the true power lies with the tia who actually manage the tribe. While nunh clearly have a fair bit of soft power, and some (like U'odh) probably have a lot of it due to their history, they're so occupied with their, uh, "life of leisure" that the tia hold formal positions of leadership.
Now, sure, if U'odh really wanted to get his way, he could certainly go beat up those who oppose him (thus the quote in the screenshot). After all, one gets to be nunh by defeating the current one and surviving challenges from other tia. Other concepts of "challenge" aside, in Eorzea, that's bound to mean combat. However, being able to clobber people into agreeing with you is not holding a position of leadership or, really, being a leader. Nominally speaking, U'odh is about as in charge as a head of state -- which is to say, not that much at all.
A lot of the quests you do for the Tia in Forgotten Springs show that it is U'odh Nunh who makes the decisions. Like the one where you have to canvas foreigners and a lot complain about the Nunh's decision to not allow this or that and the Tia say that they would run it differently if they were Nunh, implying that they do not have the power to do that now. They seem to just have general housekeeping duties. U'odh Nunh is the one running the show.