Gyr Abania Highlander Tribes?

[Rhaine037]

Long time RPer here, but new to FFXIV RP looking for some help with creating my character.

 

I'm wondering the feasibility of a Highlander tribe that was nomadic in nature across Gyr Abania. Would such a thing be at all realistic, or was it more likely that the Hyuran people were more concentrated within Ala Mhigo? I'm interested in my character having belonged to a more barbaric group of people, for a lack of a better term, and I figured not being from Ala Mhigo would be a good way to further distinguish my character from the city folk.

 

Thanks for any help!

[Sounsyy]

According to lore on Ala Mhigo's founding, there were once countless warring clans who made their home in the Gyr Abanian highlands. But all of these tribes were unified under Anshelm Cotter roughly 440 years ago. 

 

Encyclopedia Eorzea: "...life among the high peaks proved unforgiving. The survivors were of different races and nations, and soon, they fractured into factions, fighting bitterly over what little resources there were to be had. The feuds continued for many long years. On occasion, one clan would win a string of victories, and grow larger by absorbing their defeated foes into their ranks - only to be encircled by a coalition of the remaining tribes, and hammered back down. Following its victory, the loose alliance would then dissolve for lack of a common enemy. This pattern repeated time and again, and the fray showed no signs of abetting. Change was to come, however. After year 1100 of the Sixth Astral Era, Anshelm Cotter, a man of powerful lineage, set out to subjugate the other clans once and for all. Naturally, they united against him. Yet, Anshelm possessed an incomparable tactical genius, and his enemies were scattered before the march of his forces. For the first time in history, Gyr Abania’s clans were unified."

 

That said, it's possible a Highlander clan didn't engage with Anshelm and wasn't unified, or they had migrated to Coerthas or another place along Abalathia's Spine during this time period and later returned. Or maybe in the four centuries since clans slowly broke away to once again become nomads across the highlands. In the current day, after 20 years of Imperial annexation, we see plenty of examples of disparate tribes, resistance factions, etc scattered across Gyr Abania. That could be because of Ala Mhigo's fall, but it's also a possibility that some of these tribes were less unified before the fall. The Shadow Sect of the Fists of Rhalgr is a good example of one such splinter group, or the Fists of Rhalgr themselves, before they became Ala Mhigo's state religion about a century ago. 

 

Hope this helps! ^^

[Rhaine037]

Awesome information! I can certainly come up with something that would fit into that! Thank you so much for the help!