(10-15-2013, 09:24 PM)Nako Vesh Wrote: I like the ideas and creativity you have going here, and I was thinking we might have to have a player-made Keeper compendium sooner or later if SE didn't provide more lore.Â
I do question a few points however. As brought up in this thread, we don't have a whole lot of real life matriarchal societies to draw upon when imagining the Keepers, but there are a few. I was personally quite taken with the idea that, like the Mosuo, Miqote might take mating/coupling/relationships in a far less formal tone than you have suggested here.
It makes sense to me that a society that highly values physicality in the form of hunting and sport, would put less emphasis on social status or class through other means. I personally see them as gaining status almost entirely through prowess in battle, while some reverence is based bloodlines. I personally don't see "class" playing a part much at all.
Quote:Each member within the community is expected to hold a skill-set vital to the success of the commune. While difficult, the climb can and has been made from the bottom of the social ranking toward the top and into a house of influence.ÂI don't really think Keepers should veer into the area of family houses personally. I like the idea of small tribes better.
I hadn't seen that thread! I'll have to read into it, now!Â
I think my goal with the quite different shift in cultural ways was to be just that, different. I mean they diverged for a reason, right? So while seekers are tribal and 'primitive' for lack of a better term since my brain is in sleepy time mode right now, Keepers have stepped beyond that towards a world of industry and trade (something I think, from examples of the U tribe in game, that some Seekers struggle with).Â
With that would come a shift in value that's placed on physicality and battle prowess(seekers) and lean it in toward wealth and status.Â
This of course is a generalization by any definition. Some Keepers may very well be more similar to Seekers still with the only difference being the shift in Nuhn/male roles.Â
I thought there would be /should be some shift in the relationships as well. While the seekers tend to be polyamorous, I understand the Keepers to lean more toward to monogamy. The structure of the higher class's "courtship" seemed to fit with a matriarchy as well as still cling to some sort of tribal ancestry. Â Freedom would be found in the majority of the population within the normal/lower castes.Â
As to the house phrasing, I think I just worded it incorrectly. I didn't mean they had literal houses.. although it does fit with my structure, I suppose. There, though, I merely meant they would gain affluence.Â
All very thought worthy points though, thank you!!
Quote:This topic has been poked at to death many times in the past, my favorite post on the subject can be found hereThank you for this! I will be removing my post as I believe my largely under formed idea of the timeline is problematic. My ideas require far too much time to have passed to allow such evolution of the race's cultures.http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/showthread.php?tid=2961). I'm not saying you have to accept it, but it does make reasonable conclusions regarding what a fantastical culture with these features would be like.
At the end of the day, play what you play, right?
It always makes for an interesting story!
