Recurring inaccuracy of Miqo'te lore re family in seasonal quests

The lore for both Miqo'te clans establishes unusual formats for their family relations: Seekers have their large tribes with a nunh and many women who are some degree of extended family to each other and thus the children; Keeper families are mother and children only, living in small communities of a few families (implied that the mothers may be extended family of each other) while the men are wanderers who don't stay with the community.

And yet, against this backdrop of unusual family concepts, we keep getting Miqo'te characters who talk about their "parents" - tending towards tragic backstory that their parents died - and talk about their family as if it was just the two parents and their direct children with no other support.

• Moonfire Faire 2018(?) - If at First You Don't Succeed, Give Up - R'fhul Tia "doesn't have a father" and needs to support his mother and sister.

• The Rising 2023 - What Drives Us - Kipih Jakkya took on the role of looking after her younger brother after their parents passed away.

• The Rising 2024 - Rising to the Call - S'dodjbi talks about how Baderon took her in after her parents died.

• (edit) The Rising 2025 - A Light That Ever Burns - R'tcha was orphaned in the Calamity and ended up at an orphanage, though specifically run by a (Hyuran) friend of her mother's.

I don't know if this is a translation issue or if the people tasked with writing these minor quests in the first place have not done enough reading up on the game's lore, but it seems to be happening every time a Miqo'te character talks about their family situation.

Honestly, I always felt that the miqo'te lore is something they inherited from 1.0 but would have prefered they didn't. The number of cases that don't fit those explanations is all over the place. That said, it never bothered me, because I always felt this lore was meant for people actually living with their tribes, but barely meant anything for those that left them. Seeker of the Sun lore is supposed to be based on pride of lions, but man it's so stupid for sentient beings, that I understand why people would leave.

And due to the number of example of miqo'te couples mentionned to live with their children, I feel at least some part of the writing team feels the same way I do (or they are very bad at checking the lore). The whole T'kebbe (the friend of Khloe for whom she does the wonderous tails) back HW goes that way too.

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Originally Posted by CNitsah

And due to the number of example of miqo'te couples mentionned to live with their children, I feel at least some part of the writing team feels the same way I do (or they are very bad at checking the lore). The whole T'kebbe (the friend of Khloe for whom she does the wonderous tails) back HW goes that way too.

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I don't mind T'kebbe so much as a single instance – Idyllshire being this far-flung town of adventurers and runaways, it seems like the sort of place that a young couple might end up after they elope to escape the tribal rules that say they can't be together.

Even R'fhul's story could be taken as a skipping-the-details indication that the R tribe (being apparently urban and based in Limsa) is either doing something unusual with their arrangements or maybe the nunh who was R'fhul and R'majha's father died and it's currently in a bit of a mess. At least that was my best guess at justifying it when that story came out.

But then we've had multiple similar situations since. Different tribes, different clans, and it's not just a matter of trying to sweep inconvenient 1.0 ideas under the rug or we wouldn't have gotten side stories like M'zhet Tia's quest chain or that one postmoogle story with the Keeper sisters and the Coeurlclaw King. Plus it's set out in the lorebook.

Another Rising, another orphaned Miqo'te from a previously nuclear family with no support from a wider tribe.