(04-16-2015, 10:12 AM)Milly Wrote: I just had a thought. Is it ever explicitly stated that that Ishgardians are natively Elezen and Hyurs and don't like, or natively include, Miqo'te and/or Lalafell...? Because I don't personally remember race ever being brought up in regards to any of the nations, not even for Gridania.
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I've never unlocked Dragoon so I might sound quite stupid but why is a Miqo'te Dragoon consistently being cited as implausible? The game lets you do it, so how is it explained when you unlock it? You don't need to go to Ishgard to be a Dragoon I'd have thought..?
As has been mentioned, technically none of the races are "native" to Eorzea at all. So none of them are natively Ishgardian. Elezen and Hyur just happen to be the majority. Which makes your point I kinda snipped out for length quite relevant - they are the majority, not the sole occupants of Ishgard. They may hold the highest positions and see themselves as "true" Ishgardians, that doesn't mean there couldn't be some low-class Roegadyn or Miqo'te family in there somewhere struggling to survive the rigors of the caste-based society and racial tensions.
Which leads to the second point I kept in. It's only implausible if you consider that there can be no Ishgardian Miqo'te, since the idea of a non-Ishgardian being trained in the Dragoon arts would likely be akin to divulging state secrets. Either you'd have to have someone (or something - since Soul Crystals exist) who is defying the laws of Ishgard to teach a non-Ishgardian the ways of dragonslaying... or they'd have to have been somehow either already a part of Ishgard or somehow accepted into their ranks.
The latter being harder to justify due to Ishgard's generally xenophobic nature. Which is a major point. Xenophobia is fear of anything "foreign or strange." If you have a family (or multiple families) of Miqo'te that have been living in Ishgard for years, then they're neither foreign nor strange since they've been there for ages!
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