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Myxie Tryxle · **07-29-2013, 04:46 AM**

I posted my first storyline for Myxie, Impressions and Memories, last night. Today I realized that it may be a breach of lore depending on how people are viewing the transition from 1.x to ARR. While I imagine this is more of a matter of individual interpretation, and that the old players will likely lean towards one option and new players towards another, I wanted to run a poll none-the-less.

The question is, how are people dealing with lore discrepancies between the two versions? To get more specific, I used an adult male Miqo'te as well as a twelve year old male Miqo'te in my story, which is set many years in the past and before the timeline transitioned. Is this a breach of the lore under 1.x lore (for you old lore buffs)? If it isn't, what if a scenario did occur where someone was writing a story in the past before the time jump that breached the 1.x lore but was fine in ARR lore?

I guess what I'm asking is should the 1.x lore carry over for stories and events that happened within its timeline, or is this a full reboot and the new lore (like Miqo'te males and Roegadyn females existing significantly) roll backwards into stories set within the previous timeline?

Ashren Dotharl · **07-29-2013, 05:00 AM**

(07-29-2013, 04:46 AM)Callipygian Wrote: I posted my first storyline for Myxie, Impressions and Memories, last night. Today I realized that it may be a breach of lore depending on how people are viewing the transition from 1.x to ARR. While I imagine this is more of a matter of individual interpretation, and that the old players will likely lean towards one option and new players towards another, I wanted to run a poll none-the-less.

The question is, how are people dealing with lore discrepancies between the two versions? To get more specific, I used an adult male Miqo'te as well as a twelve year old male Miqo'te in my story, which is set many years in the past and before the timeline transitioned. Is this a breach of the lore under 1.x lore (for you old lore buffs)? If it isn't, what if a scenario did occur where someone was writing a story in the past before the time jump that breached the 1.x lore but was fine in ARR lore?

I guess what I'm asking is should the 1.x lore carry over for stories and events that happened within its timeline, or is this a full reboot and the new lore (like Miqo'te males and Roegadyn females existing significantly) roll backwards into stories set within the previous timeline?

I'm actually not entirely clear what you're asking here, what discrepancies in the lore are there regarding the Miqo'te? Are you just referring to the fact that we never saw male Miqo'te in 1.0? That doesn't mean they didn't exist.

Myxie Tryxle · **07-29-2013, 05:08 AM**

(07-29-2013, 05:00 AM)Ashren Snow Wrote: I'm actually not entirely clear what you're asking here, what discrepancies in the lore are there regarding the Miqo'te? Are you just referring to the fact that we never saw male Miqo'te in 1.0? That doesn't mean they didn't exist.

As far as clarifying my own post, that is what I'm asking. First I'm not sure if it's a breach of 1.x lore. Second, and the question for the poll, has the ARR lore overwritten the 1.x lore in any case where there may be a conflict?

Ashren Dotharl · **07-29-2013, 05:19 AM**

(07-29-2013, 05:08 AM)Callipygian Wrote:
(07-29-2013, 05:00 AM)Ashren Snow Wrote: I'm actually not entirely clear what you're asking here, what discrepancies in the lore are there regarding the Miqo'te? Are you just referring to the fact that we never saw male Miqo'te in 1.0? That doesn't mean they didn't exist.

As far as clarifying my own post, that is what I'm asking. First I'm not sure if it's a breach of 1.x lore. Second, and the question for the poll, has the ARR lore overwritten the 1.x lore in any case where there may be a conflict?

Well regarding the Miqo'te (and by extension the Roegadyn) there really was no lore supporting the lack of male (and female) versions of these races, especially for the Roegadyn. The decision for making them gender exclusive was because that's how their former counterparts were in FFXI. The fact that we see Merlwyb as not only an NPC, but as a MAIN NPC showed us in 1.X that the opposing gender versions of these races were in the world, somewhere. There was just never an opportunity I guess for them to introduce a male Miqo'te, so including them in your story is not lore breaking in any way. The impression a lot of people got was that Miqo'te, like the Mithra, rarely gave birth to males so they were hidden away somewhere and not allowed to become adventurers because they were too vital to the survival of their species. We see now that this is not the case, as the only clan that suggests they're rare are the Keepers of the Moon, and I believe even then it only suggests that it's like 1 in 10 Keepers are male or something like that. The Seekers on the other hand never suggest anything of the sort so we can assume that they are just as likely to give birth to male children as they are female.

As far as whether or not it's a continuation or a reboot, there is no lore that contradicts the previous setting as far as I know and they make no attempt at retconning anything that took place in the original game. Characters from 1.X being ported over into 2.0 are treated as if they existed in the previous storyline, Bahamut did in fact destroy a lot of Eorzea, the Garlean Empire still exists in the same form and fashion they did previously. Final Fantasy XI: A Realm Reborn could actually be viewed as a direct sequel to 1.X if anything, because the story doesn't pick up right after the events of the previous game like an expansion would, and it doesn't take place during the same scope of events like a reboot would, it picks up years later and continues the story that was concluded in the previous version of the game like a sequel would, so in short A Realm Reborn is kind of like Final Fantasy XIV-2.

FreelanceWizard · **07-29-2013, 08:52 AM**

(07-29-2013, 05:08 AM)Callipygian Wrote:
(07-29-2013, 05:00 AM)Ashren Snow Wrote: I'm actually not entirely clear what you're asking here, what discrepancies in the lore are there regarding the Miqo'te? Are you just referring to the fact that we never saw male Miqo'te in 1.0? That doesn't mean they didn't exist.

As far as clarifying my own post, that is what I'm asking. First I'm not sure if it's a breach of 1.x lore. Second, and the question for the poll, has the ARR lore overwritten the 1.x lore in any case where there may be a conflict?

The 1.x lore is that male miqo'te are exceedingly territorial and live solitary lives (Gamer Escape's lore capture), which is why they weren't seen in game. SE hasn't really explained why they've become less so in ARR such that they're viable PCs, especially since the 2.x lore indicates that "(m)ales in particular are said to shy from contact with others" (official site). I suppose my speculative argument would be that the Calamity forced everyone to change their behaviors and integrate further with society or die.

So, it's not a breach of lore to say that there are male miqo'te and that your character knew of or interacted with some. It would be weird to say that your character grew up around a bunch of them, however.

Asyria · **07-29-2013, 12:35 PM**

It's not a matter of opinion, it's an official fact that ARR isn't a reboot and is the 5 year later sequel of 1.0.

However, this doesn't really have anything to do with the presence or absence of male miqo'te.

I think the only reason we didn't have them in 1.0 is... they never made them.
They did exist, though! The lore reason feels like it was just patched on to excuse their absence. Original dev team was a bit lame... which is why they got replaced I guess. o_O

Ildur · **07-29-2013, 12:45 PM**

No reason to think male Miqo'te poofed out from under a rock. That would be silly. We can assume they were around during 1.x, but they were simply not depicted in-game because of meta reasons: the devs were lazy, there were no models, whatever. They existed canonically. It's just that they had no in-game representation.

Eva · **07-29-2013, 01:03 PM**

I've regarded it like male miqo'te and female roegadyn/highlanders existed all along, but prior to ARR none happened to be more than just a passing acquaintance. Â I don't really RP like they all just started popping out of the woodwork all of the sudden. Â I figure they've been on the streets in the marketplace, out adventuring, and all that other good stuff all along.

I see nothing wrong with this, and to address the poll itself I'm not rebooting 2-3 years of RP experience, effort, emotion, etc. for the sake of something like that.

As a point of note, S-E has also said that all of 1.0 is supposed to have taken place during the year 1572 (even though there were over 2 years of playtime), and all of ARR will take place 5 years later, within one year time, so there's not really regarded any passage of time. Â I think the devs regarded it as being like The Simpsons, how Bart never ages even though the show's gone on for years and years. Â For the sake of keeping things real I - and several others I know - overlook this detail as well. Â I'll accept that there's more male miqo'te now than there were five years ago ICly, but none at all back then? Â No, I don't think so. Â Not for me, anyway.Â I think there comes a certain point where looking too far into the lore results in one's own character proverbially shooting herself in the foot, and I'd rather not cross that line, for myself.

Ashren Dotharl · **07-29-2013, 01:09 PM**

Not to mention that for those of us playing as male Miqo'te it would mean we were all required to have some kind of amnesia, or something similar, because it would imply that we simply materialized as fully adult male Miqo'te out of the blue. For my part my character (who is in fact a male Miqo'te) has a history not only tied to the lore of 1.X, but I also place him at the Battle of Carteneau because he'll be a remake of my original character who I did play during 1.X, he'll have the mark showing he time jumped, things like that.

Kyatai · **07-29-2013, 01:15 PM**

I think you're fine, Calli. Your story was great. Smile

Maleqo'te Keepers existed and you made it clear in your story that he wasn't a common sight... its all good.

And I agree- no worries of having to 'retcon' 1.0 lore to fit 2.0.
1.0 was 1.0. The world is a different place now, 5 yrs later.
(tho I -am- curious why the gods decided to return Merri as a Miqo'te... *giggles* I suspect there was some mischief and a touch of Garlean gene splicing with a Coeurl goin' on somewhere in the Aether...)

*note: that comment is not meant as anything but me being silly... who and what you play is totally your own deal. I just was making a joke... Feel like I must say this since attempts at humor have sometimes been misinterpreted.*

Asyria · **07-29-2013, 01:40 PM**

All in all, I guess the poll question is kinda unrelated to the issue. ^^;

2.0 is a continuation of 1.0... but it has nothing to do with the catboys (male miqo) and the big girls (female roe and highlander). Tongue

EDIT: added a couple T's that somehow slipped out of the post. O_O

Ashren Dotharl · **07-29-2013, 02:16 PM**

(07-29-2013, 01:40 PM)Asyria Wrote: All in all, I guess he poll question is kinda unrelaed to the issue. ^^;

2.0 is a continuation of 1.0... but it has nothing to do with the catboys (male miqo) and the big girls (female roe and highlander).

It actually totally slipped my mind that the Highlanders were male only in 1.0!

Myxie Tryxle · **07-29-2013, 03:52 PM**

Thanks everyone. That's very enlightening.

Part of my confusion was in talking to my roommate about FFXI, which she played a lot more than I ever did, she said that in that game male Mithra were about 1% of the population and locked away in secret locations because they were far too valuable to the survival of the species to have running around.

Just remembered the other question I had about this, if it's not a reboot, how are people dealing with this notion of total world affecting amnesia. This notion that no one remembers any of these "Heroes of Light" who mysteriously must have dealt with the problems that culminated five years ago. Surely there must be plenty of character journals, inn ledgers with signatures, receipts for custom weapons/armor from the guilds, etc. to indicate exactly who such people were. Are people just ignoring that notion of everyone's forgotten 1.x characters?

Ildur · **07-29-2013, 04:23 PM**

Me and some of my acquitances and friends are not ignoring it. It wouldn't make sense to ignore it, if you ask me: it's just too big of a deal and it's the first thing we get slapped in the face with during the storyline missions.

You do pose an interesting problem, though. The Warriors of Light lived in Eorzea, so their stuff should be still around. I think it's safe to assume that whatever spell caused the amnesia and shoved the Warriors of Light into the future also erased all mention of them. So people who knew them just forgot completely about them, ledgers and other written media that coul have had their names just don't have them anymore...etcetera. You get the idea. Kind of a cosmical retcon.

It poses an interesting dilemma on the matter of families. Would a mother remember that she had a daughter, if that daughter was a Warrior of Light? Maybe she would remember having a daughter, but couldn't really recall her features, or how she looked or her name. It's an interesting thing to ponder about.

Ashren Dotharl · **07-29-2013, 04:46 PM**

Well one thing to be clear on, the game states that people only forgot the faces of the people who fought in the Battle of Carteneau, not specifically the people themselves. This is a complicated concept, but to put it simply as an example, lets say you had a long time friend before the Calamity, then you went off to the Battle of Carteneau and vanished into the time warp. Five years later go by and you suddenly reappear, more then likely your friend is going to remember you, probably be upset that you've been gone for the last five years without telling anyone where you were going, but won't remember you took part in the battle.

This is all speculation of course, but not everyone has forgotten about the returning members, Minfilia for example states she remembers who are you, and presumable others will as well. The whole amnesia thing (according to Yoshida) was not just a mechanic to allow for rewriting some of the story and integrating old characters, it's actually part of the story and tied to Bahamuts disappearance so we'll probably uncover the source and possibly ways to reverse it as we progress in the story.

Poll: Should stories set in the 1.x timeline adhere to 1.x lore? You do not have permission to vote in this poll.
Yes. This is a continuation of the 1.x timeline.	88.10%	37	88.10%
No, this is a reboot. Any stories set in that timeline are free to ignore 1.x lore.	11.90%	5	11.90%
Total		42 vote(s)	100%

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