[Spoilers] Lore of the Steppes

[Daralii]

It could be. It could also be a more universal belief. The crystal inside is weird, and looks a little Allagan in shape. Maybe it's a actual piece of the moon, whom is you-know-who's prison.

That said, I also look forward to Magnai's perpetual search for his Nhaama.

The symbols on the pillars at the House are used everywhere on the old stonework in Azim, albeit without the glow, and also on the modern banners and mats around the tribes' camps. I wouldn't be surprised if they're Allagan, since they're vaguely reminiscent of the crystalwork in the Labyrinth of the Ancients, but it and the news of a tribe predating the Xaela and Raen would probably mean that the Auri have the same relation to Allag that the Ixal do.

[Aryalandi]

A bit off topic but >.> anyone have any screen shots of the dotharl characters so i can get some ideas? i haven't gotten that far T^T also super excited to see all the tribes, I've read the lore so absurdly many times now lol..

[dragonflie]

Here you go:

[KageTokage]

I feel like if they were going to have any changed dialogue, it should've been more of an "all or nothing" deal, because it felt really strange for that buuz vendor to be the only Xaela who actually acknowledges you, whereas everyone else refers to you as a foreigner or outsider.

[KageTokage]

It is a touch unusual if your character is meant to be a member of one of the tribes that actually appears in-game as they're all relatively small communities that would likely know one another by heart.

The only thing you could really handwave it off as is their family having decided to live away from steppe and simply continuing to bear their tribe's name out of tradition.

[Elladie]

Elai was found as a baby somewhere near Onokoro; she was raised in the Ruby Sea area and then Kugane. She was named Elladie Byrne by the male Highlander who originally found her. She went to Eorzea - not out of choice really - when her Echo first started to show itself, and she was at Carteneau when Dalamud broke open. She renamed herself afterwards since no one remembered Elladie Byrne (head canon explanation for a race change after HW that included a name change, but Elladie is the character I played in 1.0). She picked a name she thought sounded vaguely Auri without really knowing much at all about her birth people

[KageTokage]

I had a hunch the GCs would be fighting on behalf of different tribes for the Onsal Hakair frontline.

Fittingly for it being a riverland, the three tribes butting heads are the Ejinn, Orben, and Horo; all of whom have water/rivers factor prominently into their way of life/tribal customs.

[ObsidianFire]

I was happy to see that they were all from the same general are in the Steppe too!

[LystAP]

The Ejinn are more in tune with nature = Adders. The Orben build boats = Maelstrom. The Horo are obsessed with appearing wealthy = Flames.

[24842]

So, considering Steppes tribes are all pretty much about upholding traditions, what happens to Xaela that refuse to accept said traditions? Are they being banished?