(08-28-2013, 12:31 PM)Allyssae Wrote: 1. What is their homeland? Do they even have a homeland? I'm having difficulties trying to think of a background story for my male character, because I don't know where he could be from.
Miqo'te can be found all over Eorzea, but Seekers are most commonly found around on La Noscea and in the Sagolii Desert near Ul'dah. Keepers are typically found around the Shroud and in Gridania.
(08-28-2013, 12:31 PM)Allyssae Wrote: 2. What is the general idea of a Miqo'te's job? Being a hunter for coin seems an easy choice, but being in a tribe and all (mostly), what are they attracted to job wise?
Whatever you like, really.
Seekers are more physically adept of the two clans, but Keepers are known (I wouldn't say renowed, though: perhaps reviled) around Gridania as skilled hunters. In their traditional cultures, miqo'te are hunter-gatherers, but many have adapted to city-state life or more a modern, agrarian lifestyle.(08-28-2013, 12:31 PM)Allyssae Wrote: 3. If they (as a nunh, which my character is) travel to places, be it for their job, adventure, or way of living, will he bring all his females? Since a tribe can have multiple nunh, I'd expect that one nunh has his own 10-50 females that don't go with other nunh... Or am I wrong here? This blends into the next question.
Nunh have territories in which they're the breeding male (and only rarely the leader, though control of sexual access can produce a fair amount of "soft power," depending on how you want to write your background). It's unlikely a nunh would leave his tribe, as in his absence, any tia could assert the position. A nunh is only nunh so long as he can survive challenges from tia. If he's not there, he can't very well defend the position.
That said, there's nothing saying that a territory can't be mobile, or in a city-state, or what have you. Traditions often adapt to changing times.
(08-28-2013, 12:31 PM)Allyssae Wrote: 4. Are females loyal? Will they stick to their own nunh, or will they also consider others within the same tribe? And if they do, will the one nunh confront the other nunh for mating with his female?
I'd say that depends on the miqo'te in question. All "true" nunh have proved themselves to be apex warrior of their territory, worth breeding with; a miqo'te could easily justify bedding any of them as a way to strengthen their tribe as a whole. How a nunh deals with other nunh "touching his stuff" depends on the character in question, but since male miqo'te tend to be fairly territorial, I imagine the response would be bloody in many cases.
Culturally, a miqo'te female in a territory is only supposed to breed with the nunh of that territory. Going outside of that would be an insult to him (she's basically saying he's not good enough) and to the tia of the tribe (they're not strong enough to defeat someone who's not worth the woman's time).
(08-28-2013, 12:31 PM)Allyssae Wrote: 5. Love. Do Miqo'te fall in love? Can they favour one female over the rest? Maybe one that always sticks with the nunh, even when he leaves for a mission/job/etc. while the females stay behind? Would it be possible to have that one female to go with him everywhere because he actually loves her and trusts her the most of all of them?
Maybe. Miqo'te mating seems to be fairly practical, so love probably doesn't play a big role, but individuals are, of course, individual.
That said, if a nunh regularly favors one female over the others, there's likely to be some social side effects ranging from increased discontent and jealousy to rebellion. Depending on how dark you want to go with it, that could be a key story element involving violence and other more unpleasant things.
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