I can appreciate a lot of imagination went into the write up of the Auri naming conventions, but ultimately, I feel the Xaela side is pretty gimmicky. A lot of those clan's snippets feel like they were chosen because they seemed interesting or provocative, not because they made any kind of cohesive sense. Certainly, history is filled with cultures with customs that most of us would find bizarre, so I don't take any issue with the fact that a lot of Xaelan clans are just downright weird. But those customs arise for reasons that, put in the context of that culture's history, are based in sound reasoning, if incomplete or bad information.

Let me present an example: the Borlaaq. They're the female exclusive ones that toss their male babies in the dumpster if you don't feel like going back to check. That's certainly an interesting and attention grabbing fact about that clan, but does it make sense? This is a clan that's continually embroiled in war against members of its own species. A species which exhibits some pretty extreme sexual dimorphism with the male half of the species clearly having the physical advantage. In what world does it make sense to discard your male children, leaving yourself with only women to fight? Oh, and cherry on top, they're cutting their numbers in half on top of it, seeing as most of the other clans seem to raise both their men and women to fight. Other cultures might be strange, but Christ, they're not *stupid*. Maybe, *maybe* you could dream up some context to make this make sense, but there's no way that snippet stands on its own.

And don't even get me started on the ones that marry horses. Though, this is Final Fantasy. Why horses and not chocobos?