My own personal take on it is that Keepers pretty much did whatever they wanted. Reasons being that monogamy wouldn't be exactly common due to there being so few males, one male to one female would mean a lot of females with no potential mate. There's no way the Keepers could have survived as a distinctive, separate clan under a 1:1 pairing system for thousands of years, and some Keeper names have been around for several eras.
However, they don't have the Tia/Nunh social structure either. According to this quest dialogue from a guildlevel in phase 2 and 3, Keepers do have breeding males. Here is the screenshot I took.
![[Image: aCBXBRR.png]](http://i.imgur.com/aCBXBRR.png)
A breeding male implies multiple partners, but as SE is unlikely to give us details on how this all works in detail any time soon, and the fact that Keeper society is "highly matriarchal", here is how I'm rolling with it:
The females pretty much choose what they want to do. If they favor a single male above all others, they might choose only him to ever couple with - this is in fact how my character's mother was, she only ever paired with Rakka'li's father, but she didn't care when he roamed elsewhere.Â
Depending on her personality it's not impossible that a female Miqo'te Keeper might try to hoard a male all to herself, but I think that's unlikely, due to the whole rarity of males thing. She may only ever choose him, but not really care if he goes off and pairs off with another female at a different time.Â
For a while I considered the possibility that the males don't get any choice at all on the matter of pairing, but I discarded that after it was made clear that Keeper males are even more solitary and reclusive than other Miqo'te (or tend to be, my own is a bit more sociable, but he very much enjoys being "alone in a crowd").
Another user, Myxie Tryxle, wrote out a rather well thought out piece on Miqo'te mating habits, though keep in mind it's all written from a purely animal evolutionary biology perspective, so the mileage varies from one RPer to the next how much of it they want to apply to their own RP. At the least it's a good explanation as to why monogamy is likely not a usual behavior for Miqo'te http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/showthread.php?tid=2961, at least traditionally. There are plenty of characters who break the mold, and really breaking that mold might be an attractive prospect for a female.Â
Keep in mind that all this doesn't mean that Miqo'te can't fall in love or care for one another, it just means that likely do not pair in a monogamous way, or have much of a connection between love and sex. Additionally, keep in mind there's a bit more freedom to work with compared to the Seeker side of the Miqo'te coin. Keepers are said to run in small tribes that are no more than two or three families in size, so it's entirely possible that customs vary from tribe to tribe. I'm sure you can find a way to make it all fit for you and the RP you want.
However, they don't have the Tia/Nunh social structure either. According to this quest dialogue from a guildlevel in phase 2 and 3, Keepers do have breeding males. Here is the screenshot I took.
A breeding male implies multiple partners, but as SE is unlikely to give us details on how this all works in detail any time soon, and the fact that Keeper society is "highly matriarchal", here is how I'm rolling with it:
The females pretty much choose what they want to do. If they favor a single male above all others, they might choose only him to ever couple with - this is in fact how my character's mother was, she only ever paired with Rakka'li's father, but she didn't care when he roamed elsewhere.Â
Depending on her personality it's not impossible that a female Miqo'te Keeper might try to hoard a male all to herself, but I think that's unlikely, due to the whole rarity of males thing. She may only ever choose him, but not really care if he goes off and pairs off with another female at a different time.Â
For a while I considered the possibility that the males don't get any choice at all on the matter of pairing, but I discarded that after it was made clear that Keeper males are even more solitary and reclusive than other Miqo'te (or tend to be, my own is a bit more sociable, but he very much enjoys being "alone in a crowd").
Another user, Myxie Tryxle, wrote out a rather well thought out piece on Miqo'te mating habits, though keep in mind it's all written from a purely animal evolutionary biology perspective, so the mileage varies from one RPer to the next how much of it they want to apply to their own RP. At the least it's a good explanation as to why monogamy is likely not a usual behavior for Miqo'te http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/showthread.php?tid=2961, at least traditionally. There are plenty of characters who break the mold, and really breaking that mold might be an attractive prospect for a female.Â
Keep in mind that all this doesn't mean that Miqo'te can't fall in love or care for one another, it just means that likely do not pair in a monogamous way, or have much of a connection between love and sex. Additionally, keep in mind there's a bit more freedom to work with compared to the Seeker side of the Miqo'te coin. Keepers are said to run in small tribes that are no more than two or three families in size, so it's entirely possible that customs vary from tribe to tribe. I'm sure you can find a way to make it all fit for you and the RP you want.
