[Spoilers] Lore of the Steppes

[LystAP]

While I was pleased to go to my race / clan's homeland, it felt... weird the whole time. I don't think anyone acknowledged me as a Xaela, except perhaps for Hien just before Bardam's Mettle and the buuz meat merchant in Reunion in very throwaway lines. One would think they'd acknowledge kinship, but nope... you're "not of the Steppe," an "outsider," "traveler" etc. just like everyone else. (Granted I did not expect to have my specific tribe acknowledged, but kinship seems like a pretty big thing to overlook. Even for tribal nomads.)

The Mol struck me as a reasonable people, if a little quirky due to their consultation of the elder gods before doing anything. (Totes amused the leader, Temulun Khatun, had my old given name.) The Oronir felt like arrogant jerks the whole time, while the Dotharl were... well they didn't seem bloodthirsty, just proud and fierce.

I have to start putting things like "The Xaela are a warrior race!" into macros for things like Dark Arts Bloodspillers now though. No bets on who goes Super Xaela first.

Hoping to see more mention of the Hotgo, Mide's (the main girl of the Alexander raid chain) tribe that the Dotharl massacred. As you said, the Dotharl seem way too 'reasonable' for the description in the lorebook and naming thread; those descriptions seem to imply they murdered every man, woman and child they could get their hands on.

With Mide Hotgo's role in Alexander the Creator - the Heavensward 8-man raid, I hope there will be a tie-in during Stormblood as with the Coils during Heavensward. It was a Xaela that designed Alexander, and the one that created the Enigma Codex that the goblins borrowed. I hope we will learn more about them as the expansion goes on.