Lore info within patch 2.5 files

[Fenral]

• It is believed the Miqo'te first came to Eorzea during the Fifth Umbral Era, fleeing their ravaged homeland on the southern continent of Meracydia.

Ugh, you mean there is actual lore to support my half-joking theory that the Miqo'te were enslaved by the Allagan Empire? Not sure how I feel about that, honestly.
(Yes, that would have been in the Third Astral Era, but considering what was happening in Meracydia around then...)

[Anonymoose]

Ugh, you mean there is actual lore to support my half-joking theory that the Miqo'te were enslaved by the Allagan Empire?

The most populous races in a given place fluctuate with time. For instance, most of the Allag (3A) we've seen have looked hyuran, and yet the Elezen (6A) once thought Eorzea was theirs by right, gifted by the Twelve themselves (and that was based on their numbers after the miqo'te showed up). A lot can happen between two umbral eras; it's roughly a thousand years of population flux, migration, and the fading of Allag remnants. Moreover, patterns suggest that even if the Allag did specifically enslave Meracydians in the sunset of the Third Astral, Miqo'te-ness it would have been incidental; I'm sure they'd have chained them, the dragons, and all the others who happened to be represented in the area at the time, same as every other area they conquered (assuming they slavery was a big thing in their Empire at all).

PS
Do you have any idea how many times I've gotten messages asking what quest told people's Miqo'te roleplayer friends that systematic and culture-wide Miqo'te-specific sex slavery is established canon (as if trafficking falls in and out of vogue over the years and confines itself to a race at a time)? I shake my fist in your general direction if you had a hand in this, good sir!

[Fenral]

PS
Do you have any idea how many times I've gotten messages asking what quest told people's Miqo'te roleplayer friends that systematic and culture-wide Miqo'te-specific sex slavery is established canon (as if trafficking falls in and out of vogue over the years and confines itself to a race at a time)? I shake my fist in your general direction if you had a hand in this, good sir!

I can actually say I had no part in that. The sole extent of my musings on Miqo'te, slavery, and the Allagans are summed up in these posts here. Mostly crazy talk, but I'll wager there's truth in there somewhere.

[Anonymoose]

I can actually say I had no part in that.

Bah. The true culprits continue to elude me, then. One day I will find the source of this, and oh, the fist-shakery that will ensue!

[Fenral]

Please also see the edit I just made. I feel like this has happened before.

[myahele]

Ugh, you mean there is actual lore to support my half-joking theory that the Miqo'te were enslaved by the Allagan Empire? Not sure how I feel about that, honestly.
(Yes, that would have been in the Third Astral Era, but considering what was happening in Meracydia around then...)

Well....to be fair, the Allagans prbably enslaved/ subjugated every race and nation that they've conquered. Similar to how the Garleans do it

[Fenral]

Well....to be fair, the Allagans prbably enslaved/ subjugated every race and nation that they've conquered. Similar to how the Garleans do it

To be fair, I never ment to imply Miqo'te exclusively. Just that there are interesting implications there that will probably never be proven either way. Until the time travel xpac, anyway.