(08-10-2013, 11:38 AM)FreelanceWizard Wrote: That said, until and unless new lore contradicts it, we can only go on what the dev posts and main site say, which is that miqo'te are rare and male miqo'te are rarely seen outside of their tribes (ignoring for the moment how exceedingly common they're going to be as PCs). By lore, a male miqo'te growing up outside of a tribe would indeed be a relatively uncommon thing, though I doubt most Eorzeans would be shocked by this; I'd put the reaction more at "huh, weird" than "OMG WTF?".
We don't know that they would be any more rare within or outside of a tribe. They likely live everywhere (in 1.0 there was an NPC who spoke of them rumored to be living in Ul'dah even, just that he hadn't ever seen them), just like the females, they are just supposed to be much fewer in number. If anything, since tribal miqo'te are much more uncommon than non-tribal in general, that likely applies to them as well.
Male Miqo'te were around in 1.0, they're just rare and reclusive. I think a lot of us are just going to be going with the "they were always there" thing and trying to ignore that every other person we meet is one now. Other than that I'd wait to make any big conclussions as to why there are suddenly so many PC/adventurer male miqo'tes until SE gives us a reason (IF they give us a reason). There are only like 3 male miqo'te NPCs in the game that we've seen so far, so SE is being true to their description of them.
