(06-18-2015, 11:52 AM)Gegenji Wrote:(06-18-2015, 11:46 AM)K'nahli Wrote: I don't understand what's "oddly specific" about there being fifty-one clans?
It's just... an odd number, I suppose? It's not a rounded number or anything, or obviously linked to something like the Seekers and the alphabet. So, maybe there's some hidden meaning to it?
I mean, there have been plenty of numbers that correlate to legends or have other powerful symbolism attached to them. 108, 666, 13, 7, to name a few. So, while it could really not mean anything other than that being the number they ended up with... the talk about the number just got me curious if there was any mythological significance to it. And what I quoted was what I managed to find in a cursory search - discounting some blog about angel numbers and the significance of both five and one that, while fitting, seemed a bit... sketchy? I dunno.
Then again, I could totally say the 51 corresponds to Area 51 and we're totally going to find out that the Dawn Father and/or Dusk Mother are aliens.
I think SE just wanted to give a lot of examples for tribe names since Xaela's last names are based off of it. Their number provides a lot of examples without making it too stressful for their translators or writers. There being an exact 50 clans would be a suspension of disbelief for me, since rarely are numbers exactly even. Humans just like numbers that end in 0 and 5. I think there is even a little bit of psychology behind it somewhere.
I don't think there's any significance behind the number of clans, IMO. It's just the amount they wanted to give us to allow for player examples/diversity.
