Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
If you want to swing this, I advise not taking a societal angle and instead taking an individual angle; vieran society as a whole will not bend their rules for one random xaela girl, they obviously hold their weird societal rules and traditions very close. But every society has some total softies in it, so it's just a matter of there being one who can't turn down a cute kid!

Of course then there's the question of how the rest of the village handles it, and I feel like that's where the actual story is. Was she hidden from them, did they barely tolerate her, was she kicked out eventually? I couldn't tell you, but I bet there's a good story there.

When you come up with a messy and difficult character concept as a writer, realize that might be a good thing, because questioning societal norms is a great story angle.
This is actual rather helpful, and I was planning this to be the start of a series of short stories that involve such an origin for the Warrior of Light and what happens either between adventures or slice of life to start out with. Thinking she will be tolerated and leave eventually but on her own terms.

Quote Originally Posted by Lyth View Post
It's difficult to say for certain without the story taking us to a Viera village on the source to give us the appropriate cultural backdrop. I suspect we'd have to go to southern Ilsabard for that. Until then, we won't know how closely FFXIV aligns with Tactics Advance/XII.

There is an alternative for you to get a bit of perspective, however - the Viis of Fanow. While they're isolationist, there's signs of their society changing as you progress through the various quests in the area. More recently, they're looking at starting up trade with the Night's Blessed and perhaps even Crystarium. At the very least, I would work through their various sidequests and talk with the people there for some reference material.
Been looking at that lore and while I think conclusions could be drawn from it, The First is still in enough of a different state from The Source that you can't really draw a full set of conclusions. We still only know that the Green Word in The Source is a set of laws that prohibit contact with the outside world unless absolutely necessary (from my understanding of the lore and reading up).