(09-01-2015, 02:48 AM)V Wrote:(09-01-2015, 02:44 AM)Vitamin C Wrote: If you look at people like Hilda or Aymeric for exampleHilda is an irregular abomination, as far as the majority of mainstream Ishgardians of every race are concerned. Additionally, Word of God maintains that crossbreeding among the races is extraordinarily rare. Your speculation can't be definitively proven incorrect, but there is a heck of a lot of known information stacked against it.
And Aymeric is not a half-breed, just a bastard. Unless I completely missed something in the MSQ.
Wasn't it stated that his father slept with a hyuran maid or something, and that's why he was kept secret as a bastard? I'm probably wrong.
Also it's only common sense that hyur/elezen from years past could've breeded and spread that Ishgardian blood. Saying that they couldn't would almost be like saying that Alberic is only a dragoon by title because we've never seen him perform a jump or wear drachen armor. Hyur can copulate with nearly almost anything, I mean Au Ra can be considered related to them.Â
To add, the Age of Endless Frost brought Miqo'te over long before Hyurs, yes. All of those Miqo'te were tribal or in a tribe, and all Miqo'te are descendants of them. It's very possible that Elezen from that time were as xenophobic then as they are now, and refused to let any in as there aren't any miqo'te "families" in Ishgard, nor any tribes as they would've dropped the tribal naming conventions to better suit their xenophobic environment just like the hyur did. There are only miqo'te that have snuck in there (whom were born in Gridania) for what can be assumed to be as a recent development, and Miqo'te that were welcomed into Sharlayan and who knows where else. It's entirely possible miqo'te could've been in Ishgard from time to time but not long enough to learn such sacred arts or breed with hyur/elezen there to gain descendants. After all, they allowed Au Ra into Ishgard years prior only to massacre them for being dragon-like. The Dravanian Hunters, as Oli pointed out, remark how Eorzeans (those two miqo'te) recently came up there for gil, they're both fledgling hunters.Â
All miqo'te present in Coerthas have only been found in Coerthas as guards in the past five-six years (if we're counting the 1.0 guards), and it can be highly assumed that they were hired as there are two Houses known for taking up mercenaries since they can be paid cheaper than their own people. Again, I reaffirm the difference between being a "Citizen of Coerthas" over a "Citizen of Ishgard"
