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Moonkeeper Male question
I am playing now a Moonkeeper Male and I have a question.
So I do not know if I understood it right from the story, but Moonkeepers live in families which are often lead by a mother Female Moonkeeper?
So the male Moonkeepers move out to live their own life if they are old enough?
Don't they live with their families?
And is there a reason why Moonkeepers have fangs and Sunseekers do not have them?
At Sunseekers there are more females born than males, does the same happen for the Moonkeepers or is it different?
Are Male Moonkeepers similar to Male Vieras and their lifestyle?
Are some races supposed to be "wild" and "untamed"? Like The lost Hrothgar compared to the civilized Helions. Moonkeepers seem to be more wild than Sunseekers.
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1. Generally yes, Moon Keepers live in families consisting of the mother and her children and in groups of such families, no tribes.
2. Yes, male Moon Keepers seem to move out and live on their own.
3. No, it doesn't seem like they do. I remember one Keeper woman saying the men are best in small doses, have a tendency to be irritable or otherwise have bad personalities, and something about kicking the father out. All Keepers seem to be raised by single mothers without the fathers at all and I'd assume the sons don't stick around long into adulthood either since there was a comment about them being wanderers or some such.
4. That's just part of their physical attributes. Seekers have slit pupils and Keepers have bigger eyes, round pupils and more pronounced canines. In 1.0 I think they had longer ears, tails and larger chest as well.
5. Both Sun Seekers and Moon Keepers have more females born than males. However, Hhettsarro from the continent of Tural seem to have an even gender distribution, as do the Mystel of the First. This is not explained.
6. Moon Keepers may have been designed as "we have Viera at home" but they're not exactly the same and their lifestyles are not interchangeable. Male Viera are brutal killers and guardians of the forest who only live outside the villages they're born in so they can protect them and take that role after a punishing training regimen and only returning to breed and to get more males to train, but they are highly respected by the women. Moon Keeper males seem to just be wanderers, flitting by now and then, and are not respected at all by the women by multiple accounts.
7. Wildness is subjective and is more dependent on circumstance and environment than anything to do with their race. There are Seekers living out in the wilds tribal-style just as there are cosmopolitan Seekers living in the city with a nuclear family consisting of 1 father, 1 mother, and children. Same goes for the Keepers where many of them are vicious poachers who live outside the rules of society while there are Keepers who live in Gridania and are trying to keep on the straight and narrow despite prejudices against them. Midlanders are supposed to be the most "civilized" and literate race in Eorzea but we've also seen a wildling Midlander who lived on their own in the forest. The first male Keeper I remember was a gruff background NPC in a bar that told you to buzz off and seemed to want to be alone but we know they're not all like that.
Miqo'te in general do have the stereotype of being rare, nomadic people but that's not the majority of the NPCs we actually interact with. Whether the stereotype is untrue or it's a bias based on the fact this is a game and we're not going to go out and meet every single tribe or family is unclear.
I've also seen players say "Miqo'te are so numerous among the adventuring population of other players despite the fact that they're supposed to be rare so this is a break in canon.", but on the contrary I would think Miqo'te would be over-represented among the adventuring population compared to the percentages of Miqo'te overall because adventuring certainly would suit their lifestyles more than say Hyur. Almost every Miqo'te one in Eorzea might see could be adventurers while the vast majority of Hyur are likely ordinary, mundane people. Same thing applies to races foreign to Eorzean shores like Au Ra, Viera, and Hrothgar.
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Regarding the last point, "wild" is loaded term that isn't 100% accurate.
Some of the playable races / clans are more represented than others, none of them are "wild." They all live in at least tribal societies, though we do have precious little information on some of them (Duskwight Elezen, Hellsguard Roegadyn, Hrothgar if you don't do Bozja) none of them are uncivilized.
Regarding the Hrothgar specifically, "Helion" and "Lost" isn't civilized vs. uncivilized. It's "serving a queen" vs. not; since Hrothgar women are (on paper) rare, the more numerous males typically devote themselves to a woman / queen ("Helion") while those with no queen are labelled "Lost." It's got cosmic roots, likened to planets orbiting a star and loose celestial bodies (rogue planets, rogue comets, etc). It's... unclear how this applies to non-queen Hrothgar women, given a significant shortage of females would likely cause the species to go extinct given enough time.