Conception Lore

[Kyran-Varlsen]

Yes, I was alluding to that last saying.

The reason I did not bring up evolutionary connections was that I did not know how it would be affected by a world with magic, gods and magitek. I mean, the Miqo'te and Au Ra look very human - who is to say that they were not descended from humans who were altered by some magical phenomena to possess the traits of a cat or dragon? Or the possible product of Allagan splicing experiments - those people did make a moon to hold Bahamut after all so we can't rule out their ability to affect life as well. Magic, magic related phenomena and magic based technology act as veritable distortions of common realities by their very nature.

In short, because of the magical variables of the setting, we can only speculate as to the actual boundaries and limitations while it is up to the developers to set the rules.


Off-Topic:

Also, I imagine Miqo'te courtesans and dancers are more common because, well, they are sexy cat people. If you saw a human courtesan or dancer your first thought might be to feel sorry that she (or he) is in such a dismal occupation. With Miq'ote you know at the back of your mind that they are fantasy characters and so can be sexualized without feeling guilty or conflicted. While human women being forced into prostitution is alluded to it is not as blatant as with Miqo'te women who are regularly shoved into skimpy outfits and then go strutting about in cutscenes for our male/lesbian viewing pleasure. Also the developers probably had no spare time to make human dancers and so we have the same Miqo'te woman dancing all over Ul'dah. That said, there are plenty of allusions to human prostitution and female human prostitutes can be found at the Golden Bazaar with a nearby male human npc complaining about catching the rot from them.

Sorry for that rant and that it ended with crotch rot. But this does show that Miqo'te can't just sleep around willy-nilly without some risk.