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

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Oh ok! We’re on the same page sorry for misunderstanding.

Actually! That’s a good question how old is the city? Maybe it’s a little older because they have a lot built up. I think they said it was an old Giant settlement that got repurposed but with how thriving it is, even for at minimum an 80 year period, he must have gotten started earlier so the earlier adopters helped build the city and in the 80 year slowly getting more people to build it to what it is now.

I think the Hanu Hanu greeting thing, if relating it to handshakes and bows, would be like if a Japanese person moved to USA and USA to Japan. Initially they may do it in the first months because it’s ingrained into where they came from. They’ll change to adapt the new location and do whatever fits that area. But, I will say you’re right it doesn’t just go away, using the IRL example, that kind of thing even if you’ve been out of your home country for decades like if a family member comes to visit the greeting happens.

So I wonder if what we’re really seeing just a result or the current/younger generation who might not put as much emphasis because of the melting pot thing. Like how you get kids of immigrants sometimes going against tradition or actively choosing not to because they’re not in parent/grandparent home country so they don’t see it necessary to keep up and/or their peers aren’t only from family country so they’re not gonna do it or demand others do it. Like they might do it at home but outside of that not so much.

Plus like imagine early Tural having communication break down because the Hanu require the greeting in addition to the tensions that will still be there initially with the Mamool Ja and Xbr’aal even though they came to get away from that. They def had to make adjustments so I’m guessing the younger generation might not adhere to the older generation traditions.

Also, I think the only thing that actual shows people are continuing with cultural traditions in Tural is in one of the BTN/MIN delivery quests. And that’s a little complicated because it’s with a Viera/Shetona. So it’s possible the person is 80+ and has continued with important cultural stuff so that’s why it’s still going. So I’d want to see what their kids and grandkids are doing.

Oh I didn’t mean the vendors! There are NPCs around Aunt Tii’s stand that are Hanu who are eating tacos or drinking, a few others are scattered, but their dialogues or emotes don’t show anything that’s like base level traditions are being maintained. Like you could swap them for any other race in Tural and it’d be the same.

But yeah, DT has elements of good story but the writers borked it, to the point it seems there’s more effort into piecing the story and lore together here on the forums than what the writers presented us with lol.

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I forgot about the giants building the city.
You are right the structure itself probably already existed then and was just "refurbished".

Hmm I think it would be more like if someone moved on their own continent. Japan-USA would be Othard-New World I think.
You are right though with the younger generation. those usually tend to forgo rites and culture in a city. I think it was also said that the die hard conservatives stayed in their old homes. Maybe that has something to do.
I don't think The Hanu greeting would be a dealbreaker for communication personally. The entire city was build around accepting each other so I wouldn't be surprised if people just learned and adapted some things and just went with the flow.

I havent finished the DoH quests yet (busy farming a mount that doesn't seem to exist) just starting them right now. So far the sidequests do a pretty good job at telling things that should have been in the MSQ. I think the aether current quests are some of the best we have gotten till now.

I think, as harsh as that sounds, the NPC's all doing the same emotes as any other race is just minimum development as is the whole no culture in the city thing.
The devs didn't implement any of it and I don't even think it's lazyness or so, just saving money by copy pasting assets.

I wholeheartedly agree with your last sentence. It's so damn sad what we got when all the potential was there.
It's like having all the good parts for a modell and then assembling it all wrong, breaking things and patching it up with glue.