Please no more "Inspired by real world culture"

[Iscah]

You best start believing in settings inspired by RL cultures...



...you're living in one.

(not saying that tural is good, but RL inspiration is not the problem here)

The devs are digging themselves a hole with Meracydia... they've assigned both African and more recently Australian species to it and then the whole fantasy load of the Warring Triad and the dragons as well. Now if we ever go there they've either got to resolve all of those (probably awkwardly) or avoid the real-world cultures (also awkward after the handling of previous locations). They really should have at least kept it vaguely south of Eorzea as a detached Africa and made a separate new-to-Eorzean-knowledge continent for the Australia-equivalent.

In Dawntrail one of the tribes (as it seems to be so important that it's a tribe) has had cruel breeding practices to produce two-headed super lizards which meant forced marriages, forced pregnancies (iirc, though please let me know if I misremember, too tired to go through the cutscenes rn) and eugenic-style selection of infants. We literally visit a mass grave related to that.

While it's fair to assume there must have been forced marriages to ensure they're all mixed-tribe and give the chance of producing blessed siblings, the only implications after that is that most of the babies outright don't survive because ultimately they're mutants and aren't strong enough to hatch out of their shells. It's still extremely dark implications, but not an artificial "selection of infants" as such.

i just want the next expansion zones to have names i can pronounce

They're really not that hard once you look at them and maybe repeat them a few times. It would probably be helpful to try to mention things in a voiced cutscene early on, though.

I could've been clearer. I meant aesthetically. "Oh WoL! We have an envoy from Tural and want to make him feel at home so we want to decorate All Saint's Wake how they do in Tural!" Then we can get some bright colors, papel picado, mexican marigolds, alebrijes, and calacas.

Unfortunately that would involve a lot of redecorating and I don't know if they've ever done that. They seem to just switch the same decorations back on every year.

things like calling a miqo'te a "cat" when in Eorzea, the nearest thing to keeping a cat as a pet was a Coeurl-kitten.

There have been a few mentions of cats in Eorzea, we just never see them. The lady with a coeurl-kitten in a Heavensward sidequest was convinced it was a cat, and IIRC the lorebook says Reyner has a pet cat.