(06-19-2015, 06:10 PM)Faye Wrote:There is a NPC you can do a post moggle side quest wit and she was raised by a female Hyur. The only difference is in her speech to none Miqo'te's she replaces words with now wit mew or no with nya. they really just do not act or do much with clans mainly because the clan themselfs see them as outsides much like a Hyur or Elazen, they will talk, trade and give you task but they won't allow you into the clan as a family member unless you are willing to strip all of your Hyur ties.(06-19-2015, 05:58 PM)Kousagi Wrote: Transethnic characters?
How does the RP community fare with this? Are there other players who have characters of Miqo'te ethnicity, but brought up by Hyur families? I'm talking people who were basically infants at their time of adoption, probably having Hyur-sounding names and generally being Hyur by culture?
There are plenty of them. It's just a convenient way to play a Miqo'te while avoiding all the lore that comes along with them, so naturally a lot of people gravitate to that. They're typically pretty well-received by the community, but I would warn anyone wishing to play one that they've become a cliche and a lot of players are tired of seeing them.
As for character from "far-off lands," I'm not very far into HW yet but so far there's no evidence of any Miqo'te anywhere around Ishgard, so that one could be hard to justify. A lot of people play characters from other countries, however. Outliers exist, sure, and they typically have an understandable draw to them. The problem is then that everyone wants to play an outlier, and they stop being outliers. It's sort of... polite, I guess, to conform to lore for that reason? I don't really feel confined, though. The KISS method has its merits. A character should be interesting for their interaction with others and the depth and detail of their personalities, not for all the templates you can stack onto them, or all the twists in their backstory, or all their unique attributes.
