Having played through the story of the game, and even having gone back and made an alt who started out in Gridania, I've found that there's an unfortunate paucity of lore in regards to the Ixal, their culture, behavior, and motivations. At least in 2.0, anyway.
I'm trying to write a character plot that involves the Ixal in a capacity other than "token local evil beastmen enemies to fight", and given the lack of information about what makes the Ixal tick, it's kind of frustrating- I don't want to end up breaking lore once a patch rolls around that gives them beast tribe quests and more backstory than "bird people who are the enemies of Gridania, really proud of their janky remaining feathers, no regard for the elementals/sanctity of the forest".
So my question is thus: What do we know about the Ixal? I'm particularly curious about information regarding them from 1.0, since I wasn't around to play it, and it's just generally harder to dig up than information from 2.0.
I'm trying to write a character plot that involves the Ixal in a capacity other than "token local evil beastmen enemies to fight", and given the lack of information about what makes the Ixal tick, it's kind of frustrating- I don't want to end up breaking lore once a patch rolls around that gives them beast tribe quests and more backstory than "bird people who are the enemies of Gridania, really proud of their janky remaining feathers, no regard for the elementals/sanctity of the forest".
So my question is thus: What do we know about the Ixal? I'm particularly curious about information regarding them from 1.0, since I wasn't around to play it, and it's just generally harder to dig up than information from 2.0.
