Alternately, I wonder if the Ananta were going to be crafters, and Qiqirn the second 'battle quest' tribe. Would make sense, and probably still tie in with a lot of what we did in the Ananta quests (rebuilding and altering the bridge-fort). But they decided to make Namazu the crafters somewhere along the way, Qiqirn got booted out, and Ananta had to become a battle tribe.

Splitting crafting/gathering between the two tribes would be an interesting approach.