Hotpocket

You are very much welcome to! Anybody is free to use the tribe to help build their characters' backstories.

Good point~ Even so, one could argue that the combination of qualities and individual ideas is what makes the tribe unique. Once more, it depends on how deep you want to go (and if you want to get into the whole cultural/modern definition vs literal dictionary definition argument). I will agree, however, that "distinctive" is a much better choice for writing and will make sure to change it! Thank you once again for being so thorough~

@Nero: I'll make sure not to ban your Vaulters just because of the wonderful feedback~ I just knew that there was something like that in there. I don't know why, but I just knew I was going to contradict myself somewhere and totally miss it. Your example of how you would word it is nice, but a bit too grandiose for myself. That would be because I originally planned on including history, but chose not to, and then forgot to change the header. My bad. Intentionally left vague, but I can see how that would be confusing. The members fled in many different directions and didn't exactly have a plan ready for meeting back up. Some of the members that escaped in a group might have tried rebuilding the tribe, while others--such as my own character--struck out on their own. Could you not say that about everything in existence then? There is not a single human being alive that is 100% like nor unlike somebody else. The same goes for countries and cultures. One could say that America and Canada are similar, but each one is unique. It depends on how deeply you wish to look into each tribe. On a larger scale, they're all just tribes from the same general area. No uniqueness there. On a smaller scale, you begin to notice the differences between tribes and see that each one is unique. However, I understand that it's still good critique in terms of writing. I'm sure my own professor would've gotten on my case about that had he read it. Another nice example, but I try to cut down on wordiness when I see it. Valid point. I need to make it more clear that everything after the "History" section is pre-rekt-by-Garleans. It's a little bit of both. They generally just move randomly to any prosperous areas that their scouts find, but they always know that--should they need to--there are areas they can return to that they've prepared with plants. Again, I can see how my wording may be confusing there. They are taught the benefits of not wearing too much clothing/armor, and don't have much interest in dressing up for the sake of looking nice, but they are still free to do as they please. We teach people not to have sex without condoms, but that doesn't mean that they're going to do it. The purpose of saying that was to give a standard for how they dress. The majority do not dress for fashion, but there are bound to be some that want to. Just look at Monster Hunter for example. There's people that dress for stats, and then there's people that dress for fashion. "The people wear less clothing, and the hunters wear less armor, than their Eorzean counterparts on average." I can see how you are confused, but I believe that--with context--it is clear that it's referring to Eorzean people/hunters as a whole compared to KotRH people/hunters. What I'm trying to say is that it might mean they're related to the descendants of the tribe, which is cool and all, but they don't really care. They don't even know for sure if there's any truth to that. It's just a "Oh, you're red. So you one of 'dem descendants' kids eh? That's coo'. So, about that booty." If I see somebody that's black, it would be safe for me to assume they have African heritage somewhere down the line. That doesn't mean that their heritage is going to matter to me, nor am I going to treat them better (or worse) than somebody with a different skin color. Fair enough. You are definitely like an obnoxious English teacher, but that's a good thing! Well, it's a good thing as long as you're not like that in a RP. Then you'd just be a killjoy unless they want to be critiqued every post. Please, you're going to give me PSTD flashbacks from my old professor if you say that! All you're missing now is promoting active voice over passive voice and somethingsomething MLA citations! Anyways, I appreciate all the feedback and will definitely be making some changes while waiting in queues. I probably won't go more into detail/ask myself more questions, though. This was really just a worldbuilding exercise for myself and just serves as a reference point for my character's profile, which I really have to start working on.

@Flower: Yeah, I get how it could seem like cats 2.0 in that regard. However, instead of it being more like "must mate with strongest hunter only," it's more like "ohshit you just took down that monster and that is super impressive and that turns me on, let's bang." The horn touching is one of the first ideas I read about the Au Ra about a month ago on here, and I knew I had to include it in my tribe when I read that. Thanks for the feedback! @Iron: Thank you much~ I'm definitely open to letting other people use this tribe as some background information for their characters if they wish to do so.

-insert obligatory "long time lurker, first time poster" here- Anyways, I started working on this when we first learned that the Xaela consisted of nomadic, warring tribes. I just finished it a couple of days ago (because I was very, very distracted by finishing the relic grind, PvP grind, and Witcher 3), and would really appreciate some feedback on it! I've drawn inspiration from several nomadic cultures from history as well as from nomadic cultures from other games (the main one being the Roving Clans from Endless Legend). I also incorporated ideas for the Au Ra that I've seen posted about here. The only thing I really foresee myself having to change is the tribe's name. Even then, I could probably get away with saying that it's current name is essentially an Eorzean translation of it. Everything else has been left relatively vague to avoid as much retconning as possible. Here's the link! Clicky click. Whether it be "Woo, this is awesome!" or "Wtf this is a total shit clan gg no re scrub git gud," I would appreciate the critique.