Well... I'm just going to dump lore refs here for now, because there's all this "don't touch these pages" and "don't edit this" text running around on the wiki, and I'd rather not get into a revert war. 
I did add Template
isamb should we come to a consensus on how we should handle lore pages for things that already have categories on the wiki.
I'll continue to add to this post as I pull more links in and summarize.
I did add Templateisamb should we come to a consensus on how we should handle lore pages for things that already have categories on the wiki.I'll continue to add to this post as I pull more links in and summarize.
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Miqo'te lore dump 1
- Basic racial info: XIV NA site (miqo'te have large ears and expressive tails; they're rarer than the other races; they came to Eorzea during the Age of Endless Frost of the Fifth Umbral Era, following wildlife over frozen seas to Eorzea; they're instinctively territorial and often lead solitary lifestyles; males are said to avoid contact with others)
- Seeker of the Sun basic racial info: XIV NA site (diurnal (active during the day); culture is oriented towards enjoying daylight; most worship Azeyma; rare in Eorzea; major population centers are Limsa Lominsa and Sagolii desert)
- Keeper of the Moon basic racial info: XIV NA site (nocturnal; most worship Menphina; traditionally hunt in the Black Shroud, causing Gridanians to consider them poachers; recently have made some peace with Gridanians and live in that city)
- Appearance info: XIV NA site, specifically screenshots (Seekers of the Sun have slit pupil eyes, while Keepers do not; Seeker tails are shorter and smooth, while Keepers are longer and bushier)
- Miqo'te naming in general: dev post (miqo'te names often have excess "h" characters in them, which are a hissing/spitting sound only miqo'te can usually produce; in normal pronunciation, the extra "h" sounds are ignored)
- Seeker Naming conventions: dev post (Seekers have one of 26 tribe "letters" preceding their name with an apostrophe; the letters are close approximations of the sounds of the original tribe names; that Eorzean had 26 letters and there were 26 tribes was viewed as propitious; the tribe names are based on creature totems for the tribes; male surnames are tia or nunh, reflecting breeding rights in tribe (nunh have them, tia don't); names follow English phonics; the leading apostrophe is ignored in pronunciation; male Seekers have short, one or two syllable names; female Seekers have longer given names; female surnames are always their father's name, including the tribe indicator; females will sometimes drop the tribe letter from their name when with close friends or family)
- Exceptions to Seeker naming: dev post (Seeker males who form a new tribe will add a second letter to their original tribe letter and takes the surname nunh; Seekers forming new tribes is very rare and very rarely successful because it's difficult to get females to follow someone who can't defeat a nunh (also see dev post); Seeker males using something other than nunh/tia for a last name are seen as shunning their culture)
- Keeper naming conventions: dev post (female given names are short; surnames come from the mother's line (some have survived from the 1st Astral Era); male given names are their mother's name plus an apostrophe-prefixed suffix indicating birth order)
- Keeper surnames: dev post (in-game Keeper surnames are just the most prominent families; other names are possible from more secluded, less important, or newly arriving families)
- Miqo'te breeding in general: dev post (miqo'te breed female more than male naturally; Keepers specifically are mentioned to only have 2-3 male children on average)
- Seeker mating rules: dev post (only one mating nunh per hunting ground (see also dev post -- first link says several nunhs per tribe, the second link clarifies that a nunh is per hunting ground, and a tribe can have multiple territories, each with their own nunh; tia can become nunh by challenging and defeating the current nunh; 20-50 breeding females per nunh (first link says 10-50, second link clarifies to 20-50 with a few odd tia in the territory as well); tia can become nunh by acquiring new territory (dev post) -- this is quite common; tia can become nunh by founding their own tribe, but this is very rare (dev post); new tribes are outcast (dev post); admitting to being from a split tribe causes you to be ostracized (above link))
- Seeker leadership structure: dev post (nunh don't inherently have leadership in the tribe and rarely achieve such positions)
- Keeper leadership structure: dev post (highly matriarchal)
- Cross-breeding between clans: dev post (does happen and explains some of the "mixed clan" features and NPCs seen in game; however, sometimes these are just genetic anomalies due to the common ancestry)
- Racial language: dev post (existed, but only lives on in names (see dev post); similarity of sounds and number of tribes to Eorzean alphabet was viewed as propitious)
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