(12-06-2013, 10:12 AM)FreelanceWizard Wrote: As an aside, a breeding group is synonymous with a territory or hunting ground, as Seekers only have one nunh per such location, and securing new territory is the primary means by which "new" nunh positions are created (dev post). I think "sept" instead of subtribe does sound a lot better.Of course, some (many?) septs may only have one territory, in which case one might as well just refer to the group as those in a territory of a given tribe.
I don't think we can so easily say there is only one nunh per territory. Squeenix never explicitly states a rule on how many nunhs there are, save that "Depending on its size, a tribe may have multiple nunh (a ratio of one nunh per ten to fifty females is average)" - which is pretty broad. Lore also uses the term "tribe" when discussing a single territory, so it's entirely possible that there are multiple "breeding groups" (not actually a term used by Squeenix) within a single location.
The Hipparion Tribe, for example - or at least, our player-created, Sagolii-roaming section of it - maintains two-ish nunhs in the tribe. There have been times when that number has dropped to one, which is the case now as the one of their nunh is missing and no one else has yet stepped up to the plate, for various reasons. It's actually been a point of conflict for some of our members, who feel as though the tribe's future is at risk, having experienced a dramatic loss of life due to the Calamity.
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