Thanks to the 2nd lore book my theory on house Dzemael could hold some truth

[ChaoticCrimson]

On the subject of the circumstances of Haurchefant's birth, I'd only just recently learned that apparently the surname "Greystone" is given to almost all illegitimately-born children in Ishgard. It was lucky that I found this out before getting the new lore book, as it was confirmed the Philiot, the Ironworkers NPC from the Fractal Continuum (Hard) quest, has the full name of Philiot Greystone. Probably would have been confused as to how he was related to Haurchefant lol. Also speaking of Philiot, it still tickles me how similar he looks to my character, especially given that I always kind of played with the idea of one of my character's parents having come from Ishgard. Who's to say maybe Philiot isn't a long-lost cousin of Crimson's?

[SannaR]

You know now I want to know if Silver/gray hair is a dominant trait when it comes to Elezen as there is a fair amount of those who are like that and we know that at least with us black hair is.

Also kind of going back onto the topic of secret things do you think anyone was reading banned books?

[AmemeAmeklin]

What would get a book banned in Ishgard? /think

We'd have to ask the Inquisition because they seem to have a lot of books in their book prison that seem to have a lot to do with blood sacrifices and summoning voidsent to gain power...

[SannaR]

I don't know for sure but I do remember in the scholastic story there was mention that newer versions of a book didn't have as old of references vs an older copy because they were written before the war started. Or something to that effect. I'm sure if they weren't burned any book that mentions things before the war. I guess they probably wouldn't have cared about any pro dragon books in the Gubal library as they probably assumed the caretaker had left when the rest of her people did and until recently no one else lived in the hinterlands. Even in our world there are books banned by many libraries and I'm sure having anything written by Marx or that put his ideas in a good light during 1950s America would have put suspicion on the owner.

[Iscah]

You know now I want to know if Silver/gray hair is a dominant trait when it comes to Elezen as there is a fair amount of those who are like that and we know that at least with us black hair is.

Fictional genetics are... persistent, I think. Compare Haldrath's knights with their descendents! And family resemblance within the current families as well - I think Laniaitte is the only character with a noticably different colour scheme to the rest of her family. (And Haurchefant of course - I assume his mother had that hair colour?)

Although the Dzemaels are odd there as well, from what little we know of them - there doesn't seem to be any resemblance between the few family members we've seen.

Though I'm convinced that Grinnaux must be half-Durendaire. Goodness knows how they've managed to keep a completely different skin colour to everyone else in the city? Either they're incredibly inbred, or it's how they decide who gets to be the next count. Would probably explain how Jannequinard manages to remain an acceptable candidate...

For silver hair in particular, I feel like there are quite a lot of Elezen with silver/white hair but also a lot with dark hair. At the point when I was still trying to figure everything out, I'd thought it might be a defining trait of Wildwood vs Duskwight characters, but it seems more blurry than that. I'm not really sure if it means anything.

The Justacorps top is very specifically called Ishgardian in the weaver line quests, because we're sent to Ul'dah to see some nobles and end up finding Emmanellain in that same top and Laniaitte in the female version.

That scene was absolutely hilarious! And with Honoroit in full snarky-polite mode as well.

I'd kind of worked out there must have been something like it coming up, having seen the dress in our list of quest crafting items and the NPC data on Garland Tools for Laniaitte wearing the outfit, but somehow hadn't even thought that we might get Emmanellain as well. So it was pretty great to see them all again.