(03-23-2017, 03:05 PM)Asunasari Wrote: So...would it make sense for a tribe like Vulture to roam the desert? Just based on the name...Vulture...I imagine sort of a nomadic scavenger type of tribe. I'm not sure how much the tribe name correlates to the actual animal, but that was sort of what I was going off of. Also, Seeker of the Sun, the sun being very present in the desert. Would be interested in hearing what you think. Thanks so much!
The lore just says that the animal totems "protect the tribe" but I theorize that many of these animals once served as favored food for the hunters, or provided the tribes with pelts, meats, carved bone charms, and the like for trade way back in the Fifth Umbral Era. Eventually these precious animals that sustained them through the ravishes of an ice age would "protect" the tribe through hard times later.
In my own headcanoned tribal mythos for a seafaring sect of the Raptor tribe, I made various aspects of the tribe inspired by Raptor motifs. For example, their pirate ships would use raptor hunting tactics or "clever girl" tactics as I like to call them. They would utilize raptor leather more frequently, paint their ships/bodies with faint raptor stripes. Stuff like that.
So if you want to make a sect of the Vulture tribe living in the Sagolii being scavengers, I say go for it! Their clothing has feather adornments. They scavenge ruins out in the Grand Wake to sell scrap to Amajina & Sons, etc. Have fun with it! ^^
Miqo'te Naming Conventions Wrote:In the mass exodus which occurred during the Fifth Umbral Era, 26 Seeker of the Sun tribes crossed the seas (which had frozen solid as a result of the Calamity) to Eorzea in search of food and warmer climates. The names of these tribes contained many sounds which were difficult to represent with the existing Eorzean alphabet; but the fact that there were the same exact number of tribes as letters in the Eorzean alphabet was taken as a sign that they were destined to make the new realm their home, and so assigned each tribe with a letter/sound that was closest to its name. Over time, this resulted in the changing of the pronunciation to more closely resemble the pronunciation of the Eorzean letter than that of the original word.
The tribe names are originally based on traditional beastkin, scalekin, or cloudkin totems, which are said to protect the tribe.
