Female Hrothgar Lore Confusion

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The Lost: "These are the Hrothgar who have found themselves bereft of a queen and—typically after a lengthy period of mourning—struck out on their own. One can assume with a fair degree of certainty that any male Hrothgar encountered beyond Bozja's borders are of the Lost, as they are far more likely than Helions to abandon their settlement and embrace a nomadic lifestyle. Female Lost are also known to exist—individuals who have, for whatever reason, renounced or refused the ruler's mantle to pursue life on their own terms."

Found this on the wiki. It might've been added more recently.

Specifically, this is from the Encyclopedia Eorzea 3, so this specific grab came to us around last December.

I doubt this is still kicking around in the OP's head two years later, but the broad thing about the Lost is that they're mostly an external categorization. Non-hrothgar have figured out that they're a matriarchal society but that there's some hrothgar without queens, and everything else was basically educated guesswork; there's not even any real evidence that hrothgar with a queen treat hrothgar without a queen differently. The EE3 did also give the crucial info about non-queen female hrothgar, though: that sometimes they just aren't queens, for any number of political or personal reasons.

And also worth clarifying while we're reviving this thread from the dead: The iq'braax in Tural do have the hrothgar low female birth rates, but they don't ascribe a matriarchal value to women, it's just 'hell yeah, we got a girl'. Someone to celebrate, but not to elevate; perhaps written to contrast with how crazy Mamook goes over blessed siblings. We might learn more about the iq'braax with the custom delivery NPC in 7.1, though.