Mithra - Ancestor of Miqo'te?

[Rhonin_Dragonheart]

There is also this tidbit from the Hatching-tide event to consider:



Looks like a reference to Mihli Aliapoh, the white mage Serpent General in Al Zahbi.

[Hinoto-no-Ryuji]

There is also this tidbit from the Hatching-tide event to consider:



Looks like a reference to Mihli Aliapoh, the white mage Serpent General in Al Zahbi.

Consider...what, though?

This seems to be causing people to re-evaluate the level to which Hydaelyn is connected to Vana'diel; during a Reddit discussion, mentioning that the minion text is probably nothing and the two aren't connected - something I thought was a general consensus among the more lore-focused players - resulted in a surprising level of dismissal and disagreement. But my question is...why?

What I was - and remain - curious about is what makes any of this any different from any other use of references in Final Fantasy XIV? We've had characters named after others before and we've had races and concepts and settings lifted nearly wholesale before, and every single time they've been rewritten and presented as a Hydaelyn original, totally separate and distinct from their original context. If there was no precedence for this, maybe I'd understand, but I really gotta know what makes people think that the recent appearance of Tenzen/implication that Miquo'te may be descended from something called a Mithra/name-dropping of Jihli is any different from the appearance of, say, Ramza or Xande or even Raubahn?

[Yuriane]

Honestly like I said before there is probably nothing more to it than a shared name for a reference.
If we question whether or not the existence of the Mithra implies a connection to other universes then why aren't we doing the same for the Goblins? Mandagoras? The entirety of several dungeons?
As much as I love lore and extensive theories and hate being the spoil sport the connection here is pretty clear. At some point in Eorzea's history, the Miqo'te were known as Mithra.
That's pretty much all there is to it outside of the exceptionally boring "It's just a reference"

Vana'diel and Eorzea are not on the same planet, the Mithra being here implicate about as much as every other reference. They're being used to enrich the story as an independent one rather than make vast connections.

[Eloah]

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This was my thought, a meta reference to the initial inspiration of the Miqo'te. Plus if they decide to add the Mithra into the gsme they might be Miqo'te adjacent instead of a direct ancestor; think like early humans and neanderthals, we are related but they are not our ancestors.