Yanxia: Xaela Tribe Challenges

There are a considerable number of different and unique tribes of the Au'ri Xaela clan scattered throughout Yanxia. Each of them has their own unique customs, traditions and ways of living to such an extent that you could possibly consider the Xaela clan tribes of Yanxia the most diverse and deeply cultural/immersive clan/race/tribes out of any of the other unique races, individual clan's and Beast Tribes scattered throughout Eorzea and Othard combined!

That being said, I would like to propose a set number of unique challenges that us, the players can participate in depending with tribe of the Xaela clan we talk, too.

While I do not at this moment have the means to look up and post each individual description of each Xaela tribe that we know of existing in Yanxia so far, I can at the moment make a few examples of how my challenge system/idea works. It's incredibly simple really.

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Example:

Xaela Hunting Tribes:
Leather, Food Ingredients, or Precious Materals

Disciples of Hand or Land would have the opportunity to participate and complete challenging tasks that each individual Xaela Tribe that specializes in which of whatever I have typed above with the opportunity to claim special rewards related to your specific job class you participated with and developing deeper relationship with said clan you helped wit the opportunity to learn more about their specific tribe and at some point help them in all out clash of trible clan's in order to decide who's clan becomes the new ruler of Yanxia!

Of course the Disciples of War and Magic will have their own various many Xaela tribes to choose from to help in whatever the specified tribe your doing a task for.

And obviously, some tribes might request a Disciple of War and Crafting, Magic and Land, etc depending on the task they may have you do.

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Finally, when it comes to the various Yanxia Xaela tribe's annual/yearly all out tribe vs tribe competition to determine that next tribe ruler of all others, players whom mostly sided/helped a certain tribe can participate in the competition against other tribes their respective player helpers. If my memory is correct and this event happens every once a year for the Xaela every once a year lore wise or more than it could/maybe be possible for this to be made into a yearly event. Or the Xaela could decide to hold the competition once every few weeks or a month since they would now allow outsiders/adventurers they've built trust with help participate in the event/competition.


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Okay, that's all I have! Not the best at pitching out ideas but I hope anyone who comes into this thread reads this that they enjoyed it and may be interested in this idea to become reality. ^^

I think it's a pretty cool idea!
Something akin to the Grand Company listing we already have in Eorzea, so it wouldn't be a system that required that much work. However, there are so many different Xaela tribes, I think it would be a difficult undertaking to make all of them relevant.

I like it a lot. The diversity of culture on the Steppes is pretty cool.

I'm not sure they would let us pick a new ruling tribe but I can see it working if they try to expand to a new area. That part of the desert makes me curious.

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Originally Posted by Odstarva

I think it's a pretty cool idea!
Something akin to the Grand Company listing we already have in Eorzea, so it wouldn't be a system that required that much work. However, there are so many different Xaela tribes, I think it would be a difficult undertaking to make all of them relevant.

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Thank you!!! ;u;

I can see that working out perfectly with the Grand Company listing system! But for Xaela Tribe challenge requests, how about if we had each tribe's name held above whatever specific listings of items or hunting requests they desire?

Example:

- Mol Tribe:
+??????
+ ????
+ ???????

- Qestir tribe:
+ ?????
+ ????????
+ ????

While I don't know/recall what those two tribes above like and would most likely request (hence the question marks) I think that's a pretty good example of how the GC listing system could display each individual tribe's challenge requests. But the only difference between the requests of the Grand Company and the Azim Steppe Xaela tribes is that after maybe one or two requests are successfully completed by the player the tribe member who asked for what specific items/crafting/hunts to be done approachs you and expresses their gratitude for helping them before they tell a little bit about themselves and their specific tribe while giving you the chance to state a limited set of your own opinions through your brief interaction with them before leaving.

And about there being too many Xaela tribes to interact with, how about if we are only limited to the ones we've interacted with throughout the Azim Steppe? Not just the ones that appeared in the MSQ quests either, but the ones we've done brief tasks for in side quests, talked to in the Bazaar or bought items from, etc... That way we would have a nice and decent amount of tribes we could interact with without there being too many of them to do so with.

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Originally Posted by Rofel

I like it a lot. The diversity of culture on the Steppes is pretty cool.

I'm not sure they would let us pick a new ruling tribe but I can see it working if they try to expand to a new area. That part of the desert makes me curious.

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Thanks, Rofel! ^^

Though isn't that desert area ruled by the one incarnation belief Tribe?

My wife has been echoing the same sentiment. I would also love to have more interaction with the Xeala tribes since the Steppes was easily my favorite part of the MSQ.

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Originally Posted by Soge01

Thanks, Rofel! ^^

Though isn't that desert area ruled by the one incarnation belief Tribe?

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Yup! They rule around that oasis, but if we go southwest, we can see there is a desert that goes for a long distance. I dunno if there's the possibility of having something in there (like ruins or desert tribes) but it's an idea methinks!

I like the different tribes too! It would be interesting if there were questlines that use their culture. For example, communicating with the Qestir only with emotes, or crafting items for the ahh..tribe that lives in the caves because their greed undid their rule (can't recall their name)...

I like this idea a lot. It felt as if we barely scratched the surface of the Azim steppes, based on the lore I’ve read outside of game. It’d be great to explore further.

If u go in the lore section you can see under the naming convention that there's 86ish (that's a guesstimate) known tribes and not all of them are present in the location we have access to. I like the idea of doing more quests with the Xaela as it's my favorite area (used my Fantasia as soon as I got here because I loved it so much) but the only thing I wouldn't do is the yearly fight (forgot the name) as that would conflict with the msq.

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Originally Posted by Pastahnak

If u go in the lore section you can see under the naming convention that there's 86ish (that's a guesstimate) known tribes and not all of them are present in the location we have access to.

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Theres 52 tribes, though 1 went extinct fairly recently.


In MSQ we get to meet 5, in sidequests/fates/talking to random NPCs we can interact with members of another 15 or so. I'd love to have quests with some of the ones we only got a few lines from, my Xaela's tribe only got a single little cameo in a sidequest ;-;

Pre SB, Yoshi was hinting that the Xaela guy in Idyllshire would be involved somehow in SB. If you talk to him he nervously implies he's a member of one of the larger tribes..and as of 4.3 nothing has happened to him. So Im holding out hope we'll get more lizard lore from Mr. Piggy eventually.

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Originally Posted by Rhaja

My wife has been echoing the same sentiment. I would also love to have more interaction with the Xeala tribes since the Steppes was easily my favorite part of the MSQ.

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I think she might have been the one to give me the idea! I read on one of the threads here like a week or two ago where somebody was talking about how they'd love to see more stuff happen with the Xaela tribes in Azim Steppe.

They actually gave me the inspiration to come up with this thread because I thought it was a really great idea since we've interacted so much with various Xaela tribes of the Steppe for a good portion of the game, so why not? :D

It just took me awhile to think of a way for us to go back to Azim Steppe for awhile before coming up with Xaela Tribe Challenge List That's still growing in development thanks to everyone's ideas here! ^^

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Originally Posted by Rofel

Yup! They rule around that oasis, but if we go southwest, we can see there is a desert that goes for a long distance. I dunno if there's the possibility of having something in there (like ruins or desert tribes) but it's an idea methinks!

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Oh, that part of the Steppe!!!! :O I completely forgot about that part!

Actually, why not make that area into a designation where a different member of a particular Xaela tribe shows up daily to hand out a challenge request they need taken care of by the player?

The tribe member that show up in that desert area could be ones that we usually never interact or see within the current/main parts of the Azim Steppe.

Rokke above me mentioned how there were 51 tribes current existing and that we've only interacted with 20 throughout the various MSQs, Quests, Fates and etc.

Edit: Back! Continuing...that area could allow us to also interact with the Xaela tribes living in that particular space of land/desert. Ruins and so many other things could be put in that space, too, for all kinds of stuff to explore! Maybe a dungeon where we learn more about the origins of the Xaela and how they came to be?🏡

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Originally Posted by RubixCube

I like this idea a lot. It felt as if we barely scratched the surface of the Azim steppes, based on the lore I’ve read outside of game. It’d be great to explore further.

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Exactly! The Xaela Tribe just has so much more to teach us! Not just the individual tribes but also the landscape they've dwelled on for centuries, further stories and overall lore on how they came to be and separated into dots upon dots of competing and tolerating clans, and so many other things I've yet to think of (lol xD)!

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Originally Posted by Pastahnak

I like the idea of doing more quests with the Xaela as it's my favorite area (used my Fantasia as soon as I got here because I loved it so much) but the only thing I wouldn't do is the yearly fight (forgot the name) as that would conflict with the msq.

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Same here! Although I changed my alt into a Xaela Au'ri when they first came out during Heavensward I'm actually really glad I did though as, like you, I feel like I can seriously enjoy the overall lore that is the Azim Steppe Xaela tribes by better carefully learning about them and thus determining which tribe my own Xaela came from.

Yeah...I could see how making the yearly competition battle between the Xaela tribes being some sort of weekly player completion thingy hurt the lore a bunch, now that you mention it. :( SO, how about a mini competition where we create our OWN Xaela Tribe by recruiting others from the other tribes and having them participate in a sort of PvP thing amongst other players created tribes? Sort like how the Grand Company Recruit guys we get work. What do you think?

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Originally Posted by Soge01

There are a considerable number of different and unique tribes of the Au'ri Xaela clan scattered throughout Yanxia.

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Just wanted to point out that the Azim Steppe is not part of Yanxia - they're separate regions of Othard.

Also, for those saying "steppes", steppe is singular. I also originally thought it looked like it should be plural, and had to look it up to check.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

Just wanted to point out that the Azim Steppe is not part of Yanxia - they're separate regions of Othard.

Also, for those saying "steppes", steppe is singular. I also originally thought it looked like it should be plural, and had to look it up to check.

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Thank you for the corrections Iscah! ^^ I wish I could change my thread title now but I don't know how... ;~; Do you know if there is a way to do so?

I shall pronounce step better for now on, too! Thank you again for the duo pointers! :D

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Originally Posted by Rokke

Pre SB, Yoshi was hinting that the Xaela guy in Idyllshire would be involved somehow in SB. If you talk to him he nervously implies he's a member of one of the larger tribes..and as of 4.3 nothing has happened to him. So Im holding out hope we'll get more lizard lore from Mr. Piggy eventually.

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There is a Sidequest involving his Brother (or... Brother of the Tribe..) mentioning him, why he actually fled from the Steppe and such.

The Quest should be in Reunion.

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Originally Posted by Mwynn

There is a Sidequest involving his Brother (or... Brother of the Tribe..) mentioning him, why he actually fled from the Steppe and such.

The Quest should be in Reunion.

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Oh, I did that quest back when I swept through the steppe's sidequests. I'm gonna be sad if that little nod was all that we get for him being specifically mentioned by Yoshi :c

This expansion is missing is a sidequest series that isn't tied to a raid and isn't Hildibrand.

ARR had the postmoogle quests and HW had the Scholasticate stuff, so I'm hoping we'll get something related to Adkiragh, perhaps helping him sort out his tribal issues so he can go home or at least feel safe not wearing that silly pig mask.

Now I want a quest where we go back to Bardam's Mettle and fix the traps to the next candidates lmao