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Oh wow! I'm glad you liked my tea idea~ Thank you! <3 I think there was a lot of good ideas overall in this thread. Good work everyone.

From what I recall, half-breeds are possible, but very rare. I haven't read any specifics beyond that unfortunately. I do know that there are some characters about in the community that are mixed race (species?). If anyone has details that contradict or expand on this, feel free to correct me~ Regardless, your problem may not require avoiding being a full blooded miqo'te to fix. The city-states have been around for some time, and the people of Eorzea have been mingling in these city-states for a long while as well. It's not unreasonable to conceive of a more modern, culturally metropolitan miqo'te that breaks tradition in one or many ways. In fact you could probably avoid using the traditional naming convention altogether.

Pearl Tea This delightful tea features small, chewy "pearls" made with starch extracted from a variety of popoto. Typically mixed with fruit juice and served chilled, it is somewhat difficult to prepare. Ingredients: Thanalan Tea Leaves Pearl Ginger Cloves Cinnamon "pearls" (popoto starch extracted and treated, then dried and rolled into "pearls") Any fruit juice

I know this is probably not something anyone would want to publicly carry in a tea house for sale, but the idea really struck me so here goes~ Bella's Kiss This smoky flavored, dark tea is made from a carefully measured combination of black Thanalan Tea leaves and dried Belladonna, a beautiful flower common in Aldenard known for its potent, sleep inducing poison. Once prescribed in careful amounts as a sleep aid for the chronic insomniac, this tea blend has been derided due to its addictive, narcotic quality, and sometimes fatal side effects. It is commonly enjoyed chilled, with sweet cream added to taste. In some circles cloves are a popular, though optional, addition. Ingredients: Belladonna Thanalan Tea Leaves Sweet cream Cloves (optional)

Keeper of the Moon, male.

Huh. Good catch. This kinda works.

I'm sure no one would be offended by you twisting the name conventions slightly. Eorzea's a pretty mixed up place culturally anyway.

It's great. Two-syllable given name, unique family name, checks out~

I kinda've had a false start a long while ago, but I only really hovered around group RP once or twice. When it became certain that male Miqo'te were on the way I abandoned all RP and decided to wait for ARR. Needless to say I'm very excited to finally get SOMETHING to go on. I must've sat down to work on a back story several times now only to inevitably come to the conclusion that we just don't know enough about them to write one without risking a huge ret-con.

Kylin is right. Considering how mixed all of the races have become throughout the city states it wouldn't exactly be unheard of to have a name that doesn't closely follow traditional conventions. In fact I can see many Miqote distancing themselves by going out of their way to take on a non traditional name.

Yes! This is exactly the information I've been waiting on. I've been wanting to hammer out my main's background for months but have been patiently waiting because I suspected they would finally clarify some lore bits for us.

A lot of talented people showing up here. /welcome

I would want arts myself if I could come close to settling on an appearance. Edit: Also I know it's not fun to get harassed to do creative stuff. D:

Oh, I wish I could participate. But a month is not enough time with my schedule as full as it is.

Yes, yes you do.

Great arts Ellie~

Kiwi Goldenshowers. Yep.

I think the apostrophe thing is just a Seeker. A while ago I ran around the three cities searching for Miqo'te names, and thinking that it only looked like Seeker's were doing the whole consonant > apostrophe thing. I could be wrong though. It's been a while.

Freakin' awesome. Housing and airships? So many great tools for RPers.

Depends entirely on if and how they bring Xillia over. I don't recall Vesperia sales here in NA, but I remember it being not enough for them, which is why they really dragged their feet on bringing Graces over. I pretty much agree that it's mostly Bandai's fault. They don't understand the western market at all, or even how to begin marketing to it

XIII-2 also outsold Xillia overall. That's just the first week of sales. It went on to sell something like 2.2 million worldwide. Which is pretty damn sad for a Final Fantasy game. Once again, I'm not making any statements about one game being better or worse than another. I'm certainly having more fun with Graces f than I did with XIII. And you're right, they really don't value advertising here at all. Hopefully Tales of Graces f selling decently (sucks that 200k copies is decent) here in the states will convince them it's worth the effort to localize more or perhaps go through the effort of running an ad or two.

I'm sorry to burst your bubble Ryanti, but the Namco Tales Studio was dissolved into Namco Bandai about a year and a half ago at this point, and while there are a few people that have worked on the franchise consistently (like the character designer), it's hardly a bastion of elite developers funded with a blank check. In fact the Namco Tales Studio was operating in the red if I recall correctly, which is why they were absorbed back into their parent company, Namco Bandai. It's nothing to fret about though. It's really just a financial restructuring move on Bandai's part. We're obviously still going to get more Tales games. And while Xillia is an apparently great game that I'm excited to eventually play, it certainly didn't sell nearly as much as Final Fantasy XIII, it was something like 600k copies of Tales of Xillia versus the 1.5 million or so FFXIII sold in Japan alone - don't misinterpret me there, that's not an endorsement of superiority in anyway. I really didn't like XIII myself. Either way, it's far from accurate to say it's outselling Final Fantasy. Finally, I wouldn't rush to categorize people who enjoy the Tales of franchise, or any game franchise, into two different types. Yes, I certainly enjoy some of the plot that these games present, and I can appreciate the world setting without wishing I could escape and live their myself. In fact, some fans only play the games for the awesome battle system - Graces biggest selling point in my opinion. Having said all that, I'm glad that you feel inspired by the franchise, but it is a franchise. Many hands have stirred the pot over the years, and the quality is sure to fluctuate as it has with any other media franchise. This will likely not be the only time you feel so strongly connected to a medium either.

Which version do you play? I've got MHFU and Tri on the Wii, but I passed up on Portable 3rd HD because I moved away from all of my friends that played.

I'm hardly complaining if it's an indication of things to come.

Ah yeah, the plot is fairly weak compared to Vesperia and Abyss for example, but I absolutely enjoy the battle system. I've grown rather attached to the fluffy interactions between the cast members, despite the plot being far from ground breaking, and predictable to boot.