Sarantali

Good news! I'm going to have to postpone the event until the weekend due to both my sister and step sister having their babies. Holy moly. I'll give a definite date after my brain stops reeling but most likely it'll be the same time on Saturday

[align=center][/align] [align=center]Will that handsome Miqo'te ever notice you? Will that shipment of cabbages come in fresh or will something come afoul of the ship? Should you have that ceremony that week or the next? The answers, as they say, are written in the stars and now, that secret wisdom can be brought to you![/align] OOC Information This is a social event, meant for fun or even to give people ideas for where they can go with their story and to just give a setting wherein people can meet and interact. As I will be drawing cards IRL to give a reading, each person will take somewhere between 15 to 20 minutes. I've found a pretty neat site about translating the Astrologian deck, I may be using tarot cards instead. In that case, presume that this is a folk Xaela tradition variant (it's not precisely as if we follow the 12 or would use that constellation naming pattern anyhow) If you sign up below, you'll get priority but otherwise readings will be first come, first serve. Where is it? Little Solace Rules This will be a lore friendly event; little fudges that don't necessary interfere with main lore (see my above Xaela tradition variant) are of course fine! Big things that would necessitate other people react and change their understanding of the world are not. Please keep from any RP Hostaging; that is any RP events that take "hostage" of the scene and demand other people pay attention or react solely to your character or what they're doing so everyone can share time.

Was my personal lore for Sarantali.

Hello! I go by Gumiho online though sometimes Kitsuiko and I'm a semi-new/semi-returning player to FF14. I started waaaaay back when this game started... for a week, then RL hit me. Years later, I'm back thanks to some wonderful RL friends who play here inviting me into their guild. I am an experienced RPer, I run LARPs IRL (Legend of Five Rings if anyone knows that game), and am an avowed White Wolf/Exalted junkie. In the past, I've played CoX on Virtue, SWTOR, BDO (I still kinda miss their character creator...), and TSW. Outside from these, I also LOVE Don't Starve Together and am always up for a game if anyone wants one on those long, cold, maintenance nights. I'm a teacher - I actually really love teaching middle school ELA to my surprise, though in the fall I'm going back to college full time for my Masters. I draw (waaay buried deep are the old Koren art threads.. that was me), I love board games, and generally like to think I'm an easy person to approach. Oh! I LOVE hearing about characters so if you ever see me and you want to bounce an idea off of someone or have someone get excited about how cool an idea is? I'm your huckleberry. It's summer right now so I'm off work recovering from my first year teaching, thus I'm on around 9:00am EST to about 10pm EST with any regularity. I'm looking to make even more RP connections with my character, Sarantali Kha. She's a bit snarkily playful, very loyal, and suffering under too much responsibility as the temporary leader of her sub-tribe group (I'm not that snowflake to make her the leader of all of the Kha in my backstory!) due to her missing brother. Further (added bonus?) I like giving tarot readings and Sarantali does do them in character as the acting, remaining onmyoji of her family. So, hit me up if you ever see me for one. I'm typically online in game for messaging, but, I also have my discord: Gumiho #5152 so feel free to drop a line and set up some RP. PPS. I am SUPER flexible. So long as it doesn't force me in a corner, I'm fine with noodle incidents and just running with them, like: "Hey, Sarantali -- your family never did pay me back those goats, your brother promised me a herd!" "Oh, it's you. Curse any children lately?" And I just make up something to go along with it as a story starter.

FELLOW MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHERS! And in the same field, too!

Hello there! This actually pertains to everyone but I was wondering how other RPers were playing it. Obviously if you share a surname you're more or less in the same tribe but are people playing it as if we're all literally from one huge family or if there are sub-tribes within the tribe and we're a bit more stretched out? Like, the same way I IRL have family in Michigan and Indiana but we're the same family. I wasn't sure and I didn't want to impinge upon anyone's RP with my character so I've been defining things from my character as a sub-clan or group from the Kha (The Mongke Kha) to make sure that if anyone said anything different I could just be like "We're weird, lol" or such. If people ARE doing their own sub-groups which have their own tradition within the Kha, what are they like? It'd be nice to collect the different variations of my cousins.

Define mixing lore. Would people be upset if someone in game started casting a spell and using a runic magic and described how they were weaving things into the elemental runes to ward away something? That's not something that's technically in game. It's sort of your own magical lore situation. What about equipment? Magitek is ostensibly built using equipment -- is it okay to start to "create" objects to do these things; Aetheric Flux Stabilization Wands, Alternating Magitek Drill? Those don't necessarily exist. Heck, how magitek is actually built is pretty much up in the air? What do characters who are a part of that say or do when their jobs come up? Can you call upon a singular element and try to merge yourself as close as possible to understand the very essence of water as if it were a living totem to try and learn everything about the magic of it such that water "speaks" to you? For that matter, when you cast magic can you have your magic speak to you? Can you feel an addictive rush when you cast powerful spells? Are you changed a little by casting so much violent magic? Again-- these are all things that aren't a part of lore per se. But these aren't things you can really sweep under the rug and say your characters wouldn't talk about, consider, etc. Something has to be said, right? Lore is going to get mixed a little because almost no game is going to have enough lore to fill in all of the cracks for all concepts. (Miqo'te Occult tradition... I'm looking at you). I honestly don't think there's anything wrong with adding bits and pieces there to round out conversations so long as it "feels" right for the setting. That said, just be sure to file off your serial numbers so that it feels right for the setting.

Duno. They like they'd need to be polyamorous too still with the few males they have. Who knows~ It seems like a big cultural thing to happen to not mention... especially when they go through great lengths to describe the breeding culture for the Sun Seekers. The options are either: 1. They happened to forget to describe the Moon Keepers are polyamorous even after going through describing the breeding rights of the Sun Seekers in full detail along with names for their breeding specifications, situations, and cultural norms... they just forgot... 2. The Keepers aren't polyamorous. It could be the case but it doesn't seem to make logical sense that they just "forgot" to mention a key bit of lore for one group after going over it in detail for another. Given the matriarchal ideal and the fact that female Miqo'te were known for going off into the world at much higher rates it seems much more likely that, rather than forgetting to write lore, less female Miqo'te of the Moon Keepers settle down to form families. After all, they aren't necessarily needed for breeding stock and families are small anyhow. Further a little under half of the NPCs from 1.0 appeared to be Sun Seekers (the ones with names. Since some of the Moon Keepers had Sun Seekers names I might have miscounted mobs). Given traditions and who-leaves-where it seems to work itself out there.

Outside from the fact I think that Keepers are a bit more monogamous than this culture seems to be in contrast to the Seekers who seem to be more polyamorous... so I don't know how well that would work ; Also they seem to have big families which take care of their own averse to the Keeper's more isolationist feel... I get the sense from how they're written they wouldn't necessarily take in family from another tribe so tending to the elderly or left children would actually be more of a thing. That said there's a lot of interesting ideas here.

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Yay for you guys! I still miss Ash's ears.

http://regalius.guildlaunch.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9441631 Some of the information here is from 1.0 but this is a thread gathering all the information about Miqo'te in and out of game. I'll keep an ear out. ...seriously, miqo'te occult tradition? I'll find more about you, one day!

Long posts from me don't mean angry. If I'm going to disagree with someone's opinion then I best have facts and reasoning to back up why I think something else. I'm never a "you're wrong because" person -- I like proving why I think this and then if you had evidence otherwise you could be all "But that doesn't logically follow because of that" averse to just stating it out.

I... don't really understand what that means. Are you saying tribal peoples who hunt for food don't love nature (because hunting/playing/living in nature doesn't mean loving it) or were you saying the Miqo'te were a race who despoiled nature and thus don't love it? Because I don't really... didn't really follow that... Nononono. Not saying that they're some kind of Captain Planet villain or anything, just they take what they need/ they do what they do to survive. They may have a healthy respect for their habitat, but their reputation as poachers implies that they may not always have conservation on their minds. In the eyes of the Viera they could be seen less as a devout lover of nature, and more as an invasive species. Poaching is more of a legal problem than a naturalistic one. I mean, it just means that someone sneaks onto your land and hunts etc. Katniss in Hunger Games is a poacher -- and I think it's pretty clear she has a MUCH better understanding of how conservation works. Poaching is also the major crime of Robin Hood. Again, mostly legal. Heck, one of the major issues that people claimed (ironically) against Native Americans were that they were poachers because they didn't have land use rights where they hunted Poaching has that reputation to us NOW because we inherently think of poachers as the ones who kill elephants for their tusks and leave the bodies to rot, but historically most poaching was subsistence poaching—i.e., the taking of game or fish by impoverished peasants to augment a scanty diet. Given the setting it seems much more fitting that the Miqo'te give no concern for law... not that they despoil the land or are hunting environmentally protected species and plants. I say that because in order for THAT other quality of poaching to make sense we would also necessarily need to see a few things; first of which being those environmentally protected species and plants. But, even more than that they would either have to be a culture of consumers or a culture of trade -- they don't really qualify for either since they're isolationist-tribal for their two most major. Given their description: Comparatively few in number, they maintain an insular group mentality within their clans, tending to avoid contact with the other races. Many individuals lead isolated lifestyles, even when living in the more populous cities. It doesn't seem particularly likely that the Miqo'te are huge on trade. We also know that they followed certain species over as they crossed which begs us to believe they were at least originally semi-nomadic following the herds at the time. In order to have the effect on their natural surroundings they would have to over-consume. However, that's a HUGE racial quality. You don't just "hint" that a race is one of over-consumption... that'd be like leaving off a race had a war-like tendency for another! Even games that are light on their lore (GW2) bring up that sort of thing. It's absent with the articles on the Miqo'te so we can easily say that they are not over-consumers. That is to say the main "Friction" between the Miqo'te and other races seems to be predicated on their standoffishness rather than their consumption. Mind, I've just a little bit of research so I'm still learning. If you know other articles I'd love to see them to add them to my list.

Realistically... what would be the difference between a Beastmaster and their pet and an Arcanist and THEIR pet? Ostensibly any class that gets added should do more than just palette swap -- it should be a different type of play. Chemist would add another healing class, or a time mage someone to support, thief is something integral to a lot of the game and stealing could be a fun mechanic... songstress actually could do a lot of support and healing and that could be interesting (but how do you keep it from being bard?)