(07-29-2015, 08:01 AM)Septha Wrote: To be honest, if you want to look at it from a family tree standing point, everyone is related to an Allagan somewhere in the family tree. It's whether that particular bloodline still directly exists. Each time one person breeds with another that's not of the same "bloodline", the direct bloodline weakens until it's almost nada.
Actually it's the opposite, unless there are reasons to believe the population of Eorzea is declining (unlike RL population, which is increasing), the furthest back we go down the bloodline, the more the chances to have an ancestor in common are.
From: http://all-that-is-interesting.com/famous-descendants
43 of 44 US Presidents were descendants of John I, and all races are descendants of Egyptian King Narmur.
Quote:This one takes a little work to get, but here's the logic. Every living person has two parents, four grandparents, and so on. Eventually, the exponential increase of ancestors gives you and everybody else trillions of ancestors each, which obviously can't be true. We're all descended from the same people, some by scores of independent routes through time. And those ancestors are also ancestral to everyone else in the world if they lived far enough back. Simplified mathematical models show that everyone in the world can have an ancestor who lived within the last 1,000 years, and that all of our ancestors were the same people within the last 2,000 years. Obviously, geography and history affect this estimate, but not by much. Of the people living over 4,000 years ago, they were all either the ancestors of everybody alive today – or of nobody. Narmer had dozens of children. It's probably safe – and mathematically certain – to bet that he's an ancestor of Queen Elizabeth (I and II), Mao Zedong, the homeless guy behind your apartment, Jeffrey Dahmer, Carl Sagan . . . and you. The same is true of 100 percent of his contemporaries, including those slaves he's depicted killing. Either they're everybody's ancestors, or their lines are fully extinct, but nothing in-between. And you, 2,000 years from now, may well be a common ancestor of every human then alive – or extinct, but nothing in-between. Hug your kids. Source: WLRN
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To be an interesting, intriguing, well-written character, there needs to be something to allow the audience to relate to them. That is what the problem is with who wants their character to be "perfect". Perfect characters will never be strong, and strong characters will never be perfect, because WE (those who read, who watch, who RP) are not perfect.
"What makes a strong character is how they deal with their flaws, their fears, their turmoils, their troubles that get in the way. That's what makes them relatable." -- N.C.
"What makes a strong character is how they deal with their flaws, their fears, their turmoils, their troubles that get in the way. That's what makes them relatable." -- N.C.
