Quote Originally Posted by Fenral View Post
We don't actually know that, though. Since FFXIV in general leans more towards "all myths are false," the age when they served "the gods" and the disaster that drove them to the Twelveswood actually has two possible in-lore matches. We're currently meant to associate this with the Age of the Gods and the Calamity of Fire, as no doubt the Moogles themselves have concluded from comparing their myths with those of humans, but there's an equally possible and much more recent match in their servitude in Dravania and Nidhogg's destructive rampage after Ratatoskr's death. If the Allagan remnants in the Aery are any indicator, Nidhogg is the other dragon that escaped Azys Lla, and the Moogles could have come with him to Dravania after pledging their service.
Actually, The fact that the disaster happened BEFORE Mog Home was built (As displayed by the fact they said the Islands in the Sea of Clouds were one land mass pre-disaster) then I think it's safe to assume they indeed pre-date allage. Only the Ixali themselves have to connected to them. (Much to my disgust as I personally want to be done with allage once and for all)

But what we know for sure out of these is that the Moogles ARE NOT Beast Tribes as that is an Arbitrary Classification placed on them by The Spoken Races. the Amaljaa seem to be based on Fire Elementals known as Salamanders, The Sylphes being the Wind Elementals of the same name, the Kobolds being Gnomes, and the Sahagan paralleling to Undine. (Yes SAO uses the names but it's copying the origin).

The Ixali, Vanu Vanu, and Gnath are outliers as are Moogles but unlike the other seven no one has ever called Moogles Beast Men. After all, even the Sylphes are called beastmen despite their good relations with Gridania. So the Moogles aren't beastmen. And I'll continue to champion that the Allagans weren't as involved as it seems just because I hate the idea that they, despite only being Third Astral Era, are so damn dominant in the lore.

Aaaaaaand I'm rambling again.