The point in the trailer:
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They are talking about at 3:15. It shows the initial "burst" from Bahamut's freedom striking "behind" Ul'dah. The city itself was not struck, but Thanalan probably got hit depending on the perspective.
I would assume that if your character was in Ul'dah at the time of this that they would definitely have seen it happened.
You're correct: at the start of ARR, it will be 1577. Dalamud fell in 1572. If your character was born in 1555 (assuming January), then they will be 17 when Dalamud fell, and 22 at the start of ARR. In January 2014, most (if not all) RPers will be playing in the year 1578, even though time in ARR will be static to NPCs.
I do not know if SE has decided to give a reason as to why the male Miqo'te are suddenly coming out of hiding and becoming adventurers when they haven't been before. I doubt it will be something as complex as an additional migration or something. The Miqo'te we have in Eorzea are descendents of that initial migration. If anything they might just say they were motivated to be more open due to the attack. I find it highly likely that they'll say NOTHING though lol, and leave us to just assume that they were always around in these low numbers.
The surge in male Miqo'te in the RP community, however, will likely never be brought up ("Sure are a lot of male miqos around these days" is not something I think I'll hear IC), much like the fact that there are a crapton more female Miqo'te in the community than what is "normal" for distribution of the races in Eorzea according to SE is generally ignored.
Basically, don't think so much on it. Just play your character and trust that others aren't going to nitpick over these sorts of little details because they just bring up more questions than answers (and questions that remain unanswered by SE). They'll nitpick over stuff that goes against what we DO know, not what we don't.
ZEE TRAILER
They are talking about at 3:15. It shows the initial "burst" from Bahamut's freedom striking "behind" Ul'dah. The city itself was not struck, but Thanalan probably got hit depending on the perspective.
I would assume that if your character was in Ul'dah at the time of this that they would definitely have seen it happened.
You're correct: at the start of ARR, it will be 1577. Dalamud fell in 1572. If your character was born in 1555 (assuming January), then they will be 17 when Dalamud fell, and 22 at the start of ARR. In January 2014, most (if not all) RPers will be playing in the year 1578, even though time in ARR will be static to NPCs.
I do not know if SE has decided to give a reason as to why the male Miqo'te are suddenly coming out of hiding and becoming adventurers when they haven't been before. I doubt it will be something as complex as an additional migration or something. The Miqo'te we have in Eorzea are descendents of that initial migration. If anything they might just say they were motivated to be more open due to the attack. I find it highly likely that they'll say NOTHING though lol, and leave us to just assume that they were always around in these low numbers.
The surge in male Miqo'te in the RP community, however, will likely never be brought up ("Sure are a lot of male miqos around these days" is not something I think I'll hear IC), much like the fact that there are a crapton more female Miqo'te in the community than what is "normal" for distribution of the races in Eorzea according to SE is generally ignored.
Basically, don't think so much on it. Just play your character and trust that others aren't going to nitpick over these sorts of little details because they just bring up more questions than answers (and questions that remain unanswered by SE). They'll nitpick over stuff that goes against what we DO know, not what we don't.
