There were three male Miqo'te NPCs in Phase 3. One in a tribe, one in the ahm... I forget the name of it, the place where Minfilia and the Scions of the Seventh Dawn hang out, and one Keeper male drinking alone in the South Shroud. So SE does seem to be keeping in line with the whole rarity thing. My personal opinion is that it's best to go with the "they've always been there" approach that many RPers are going with, even though we didn't see them in 1.0.
We literally have nothing solid to go on that reasonably points us in one direction or the other about how Miqo'te live. In fact, there isn't a single NPC Miqo'te that has a name that doesn't follow tribal naming conventions, yet at the same time there's a crap ton of Miqo'te in all of the city-states that don't seem to have a tribal association beyond that naming convention that we can see.
My own conclusion of it at the moment is that because there are no Miqo'te that break from traditional name conventions found in game (it's interesting to note that no other race/clan breaks from naming conventions either) and that the naming conventions post (http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threa...onventions) speaks about tribal culture in the present tense, and that we actually see a Seeker tribe in game, I'm thinking it might be a situation akin to Native American's in the United States today. Tribal customs (or modern versions of them) persist in private, but this is largely unseen by the rest of the population.
Of course this is just my present take on it, if/when we get more lore about it my conclusion will change, but at this point I'm doubtful we're going to see anything conclusive until if/when a story arc touches on it in a way that forces them to expand on things.
(08-10-2013, 11:49 AM)Aysun Wrote: If anything, since tribal miqo'te are much more uncommon than non-tribal in general, that likely applies to them as well.
We literally have nothing solid to go on that reasonably points us in one direction or the other about how Miqo'te live. In fact, there isn't a single NPC Miqo'te that has a name that doesn't follow tribal naming conventions, yet at the same time there's a crap ton of Miqo'te in all of the city-states that don't seem to have a tribal association beyond that naming convention that we can see.
My own conclusion of it at the moment is that because there are no Miqo'te that break from traditional name conventions found in game (it's interesting to note that no other race/clan breaks from naming conventions either) and that the naming conventions post (http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threa...onventions) speaks about tribal culture in the present tense, and that we actually see a Seeker tribe in game, I'm thinking it might be a situation akin to Native American's in the United States today. Tribal customs (or modern versions of them) persist in private, but this is largely unseen by the rest of the population.
Of course this is just my present take on it, if/when we get more lore about it my conclusion will change, but at this point I'm doubtful we're going to see anything conclusive until if/when a story arc touches on it in a way that forces them to expand on things.
