Miqo'te

This would probably go better in the lore tab. Also I think there's a stickied thread there about miqote society.

The encyclopedia is a pretty good place to take a look as well as the lore forums.

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Originally Posted by Averax

The women raise the children and keep everything within their tribe running, while the men are extremely antisocial by nature, and spend most of their time hunting alone. They return to the tribe to bring back what they hunt, and sometimes mate, though there are no rules on who mates in a keeper tribe. A moon keeper woman would tell you that moon keeper males are best in small amounts anyway, so they aren't bothered by their general absence most of the time.

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I think it's a bit more nuanced than that. There's contradictory statements made in-game and in the lore books which shows different elements of lore being written by different people who aren't necessarily talking to each other. Traditional moon keepers live in families of just the mother and her children and live in groups of 2-3 families who hunt together. There is an NPC that goes on to say that women tend to stay and take care of the family and ply other trades while the men show up every now and then with game. A different NPC says that moon keepers aren't raised with fathers at all. I'm more likely to believe the 2nd one since most moon keeper NPCs in the game are female hunters you can fight, and there's even a leve to supply a miqo'te woman with materials for her war paint. The men do tend to wander around, but there's no such thing as moon keeper "tribes", just family names, and there's nothing else that suggests that they do anything other than wander the forest on their own accord, not really beholden to a specific area.

But what is "traditional" for both sun seekers and moon keepers doesn't necessarily have to apply anyway, since a large number of miqo'te live in cities now and there hasn't been anything at all so far that mentions city miqo'te still practicing their tribal rules and going out to hunt and live in a rigid culture while also being thieves, dancers, pirates, etc. Even the J tribe who lives in a small town rather than a city has no nunh in sight and one of the miqo'te there falls in love with someone outside her race. Unlike the nearby M tribes, most of them aren't wearing "active" clothing and they are assimilated into hyur culture, which is how I think most are at this point.

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Originally Posted by Averax

'a = 1st son
'to = 2nd son
'li = 3rd son
'sae = 4th son
'ra = 5th son
'ir = 6th son
'wo = 7th son
'ya = 8th son
'zi = 9th son
'tan = 10th son.

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Considering they even bother to have names for the 10th son in a race where males are supposedly few in numbers, imagine how many daughters a moon keeper female may give birth to. 50? 100?

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Originally Posted by linayar

Considering they even bother to have names for the 10th son in a race where males are supposedly few in numbers, imagine how many daughters a moon keeper female may give birth to. 50? 100?

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It's a just in-case scenario. They don't actually expect anyone to have 10 sons. They barely expect one.

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Originally Posted by Averax

It's a just in-case scenario. They don't actually expect anyone to have 10 sons. They barely expect one.

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I'm sure it's rare, but being part of the lore, I'm sure it's happened in the past. You don't establish a 10th spot just in case when you barely expect one, and having daughters would not be so rare either way.

At the same time, I think males being rare by comparison should not mean males are rare to the point of barely expecting one. There should be enough to sustain a population of an entire race.