Lalafell Predators

[xagarelic]

They also often have light coloured hair to help them better blend in with the terrain in order to stay hidden from rocs (giant birds of prey)

So my question is, how often do you think lalafell are eaten? c_c

Never, the roc breeds with them, that's why we have sahagins

[Grembo]

I think it's our ability to make lots of sexy time that led to us being a populous race. ALL RIGHT!

Every time you lose a FATE, Lalafells get busy replacing the ones the monsters eat.

Thought this thread would be a discussion as to why 99% of Lala's talk exactly like this.

[Viridiana]

At first, I thought this was a thread about lalafells as sexual predators (not too farfetched, based on their conversations).

I pictured the Predator's face on a Lalafell body. I'm not sure which is worse.

Half the Fates in Ul'Dah are about having to deal with some giant monster or other that keeps eating Lalafels, so I think the answer to your question is "A lot".

Not just Thanalan, there's Fates in La Noscea and the Shroud that are also about preventing stuff from eating Lalafell...

And these two pretty much answered the question. Lalafell seem to be in about as many food chains as water is.

[WellFooled]

If FATE descriptions are any indication, Lalafells get eaten a lot o_o It seems like half the FATEs I run into say Lalafells are the victims of whatever monster needs slaying.

[ArkAurelius]

Which makes it all the more awesome when Lalafells fight with tenacity.

THE FOOD THAT BITES BACK!

The time for the smallfolk to be nothing but fodder is over. NOW, we EAT everything else >

[Enkidoh]

The irony is, there's a few instances of hyur being mentioned as prey for monsters as well (there's a ziz-type mob in Eastern Thanalan that shows up in a levequest called 'hyur-eating pelican', and a FATE in the Central Shroud involves a young hyur woman whose hyur partner was torn to pieces and devoured by raptors - the FATE begins with the poor girl blabbering that the raptors "have just finished devouring her beloved and now they're after her!"). So lalafell can at least take heart in knowing they're not the only race to be treated as food!

The idea of lalafall (or smallfolk) being considered food is also a reflection by the development team of an old joke from FFXI about the lalafells' Vana'dielian cousins, the tarutaru, who were often joked about by players being food for taller races (mithra especially). Ferne likes to put in-jokes from the community in the actual game so this could just be yet another fandom joke made canon.

[AngelicBeing]

Thought this thread would be a discussion as to why 99% of Lala's talk exactly like this.

I have no objections to this statement.

Also, boobies.

[HumsterMKX]

Well... I did ask about do early Miqo'te hunt and feed on Lalafells.

And if Lalafell think Miqo'te fur = warm and fuzzy.

[Enkidoh]

I can't remember where I read it, but apparently miqo'te actually don't have fur at all - we're basically just hyur with cat ears and a tail. Unlike our Vana'dielian mithra cousins, who actually did have fur.

[HumsterMKX]

I can't remember where I read it, but apparently miqo'te actually don't have fur at all - we're basically just hyur with cat ears and a tail. Unlike our Vana'dielian mithra cousins, who actually did have fur.

Well current Miqo'te may not have, but the early Miqo'tes that lived during the great ice age, may have fur.

Not forgetting you cats do have some fuzzy tails.