(12-23-2013, 08:25 PM)Folken Wrote: I grow tired of seeing so many people latch onto this misconstrued notion that Miqo'te are still prominently tribal in nature because they aren't. The only tribe of Sunkeepers represented in-game are the exception rather than the rule. 95% of Miqo'te NPC population has nothing to do with tribes, including all prominant Miqo'te NPC's involved with the storyline.
You have no lore to base your random % off of, just so you know. :p The world is far bigger than the number of its NPCs, especially in XIV where the visible in-game world is pathetically small. There's simply not enough in-game space to have a bunch of different tribes running about. There's no indication whatsoever that the U tribe is the only miqo'te tribe that still persists with its unique culture; rather, take it more as a sample of miqo'te tribes that persist with their own unique cultures, just as you might take an NPC camp of Couerlclaw poachers as a sample of all poacher camps in the Shroud.
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