Wow, Wuk Lamat is really single-handedly ruining the DT story...

[Papayatar]

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I think 80 years is reasonable enough for cultures and practices to meld a fair bit. At minimum the Mamool Ja citizens would be changing cuisine since they’re not limited to rainbow bananas, and whatever gets secretly traded with the Xbr’aal. The Mamool Ja and Xbr’aal interacting at all probably started a culture change quickly compared to the ones that stayed in their respective zones not or barely interacting.

I think Pelu Pelu are the only ones that kinda stayed the same since the Custom Deliveries area is run by one and the Alpaca stand too.

So far the city HanuHanu don’t seem to use the greetings of the town or incorporate reeds like they did in their zone? The idle NPCs I’ve run into are eating tacos or drinking and if they’re not doing that there’s none locked into doing the Hanu greeting to others for NPC flavour. The only Hanu I remember taking to at length was Donuhanu for the deliveries quest but it was fish related and I don’t think he talked about Hanu culture like say in the BTN/MIN one where we got how Tural Viera/Shetona operate differently than the ones across the ocean.

Honestly I think the story didn’t do a good job at the culture preservation part within the city. We go outside the city it’s a prominent theme but inside the city what’s shown more to us is just that everyone is united. Maybe it’s shown in the city side quest? If it is I haven’t done those.

Yeah Gulool Ja Ja is IDK weirdly done. Yeah kids become adults and should eventually go and discover and learn about the outside world on their own, but like you said since it seemed his goal for picking a replacement was someone close, or identical, to his own views it was already going to be biased to whoever just naturally was like that. Which just happens to be Wuk Lamat because the story said so.

It wouldn’t have been that bad if we got some info that he had hinted or tried to push all his kids equally to that idea and that was more or less what he was looking for in a replacement. Then maybe we could get a clearer motivation for Zareel Ja hating his dad and siblings and not just “I gotta live up to high expectations” but also “the game was rigged from the start”, and he could resent his dad for only wanting a similar replacement and hating Wuk (and Koana) because they were getting favouritism and preferential treatment becase of it.

[Voidmage]

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That's more or less what i was saying xD.
The problem is the writing itself. Sorry if it's hard to understand. I tend to rambling on such things.

Do we actually know how old the city is?
The fighting was stopped 80 years ago and i would guess most of Gulool JaJa's time was spend building it afterwards.

But the thing with the HanuHanu greeting is one I can't accept.
It's introduced as extremely important to them. They wouldn't give it up because they live in a city now.
Look at the bowing in japanese or the handshake here in europe.
These are all small but important greeting customs that don't change because people live in a city even in one with different cultures.

Thank you for bringing the quest things up. I haven't done fisher yet so I didn't know it.

Yeah I agree, there is huge shift between inside the city and outside it in narrative but if the Pelupelu are anything to go by it shouldn't be such a huge gap normaly.
Maybe I saw wrong but the foodstands seem to be mostly run by Mamool ja and Hrtothgar so their cutlure actually also seems to still exist.

Completely agree with you on the Gulool JaJA and Zoraal Ja points.


I think DT has had a very good premise and good characters but was completely ruined by the handling of it, most of all Wuk Lamat.
It's like they took the story board itself and forgot to write around it.
It all probably makes sense in the devs head but falls flat as a written stoy.