Yanxia: Xaela Tribe Challenges

[Soge01]

My wife has been echoing the same sentiment. I would also love to have more interaction with the Xeala tribes since the Steppes was easily my favorite part of the MSQ.

I think she might have been the one to give me the idea! I read on one of the threads here like a week or two ago where somebody was talking about how they'd love to see more stuff happen with the Xaela tribes in Azim Steppe.

They actually gave me the inspiration to come up with this thread because I thought it was a really great idea since we've interacted so much with various Xaela tribes of the Steppe for a good portion of the game, so why not?

It just took me awhile to think of a way for us to go back to Azim Steppe for awhile before coming up with Xaela Tribe Challenge List That's still growing in development thanks to everyone's ideas here! ^^

Yup! They rule around that oasis, but if we go southwest, we can see there is a desert that goes for a long distance. I dunno if there's the possibility of having something in there (like ruins or desert tribes) but it's an idea methinks!

Oh, that part of the Steppe!!!! :O I completely forgot about that part!

Actually, why not make that area into a designation where a different member of a particular Xaela tribe shows up daily to hand out a challenge request they need taken care of by the player?

The tribe member that show up in that desert area could be ones that we usually never interact or see within the current/main parts of the Azim Steppe.

Rokke above me mentioned how there were 51 tribes current existing and that we've only interacted with 20 throughout the various MSQs, Quests, Fates and etc.

Edit: Back! Continuing...that area could allow us to also interact with the Xaela tribes living in that particular space of land/desert. Ruins and so many other things could be put in that space, too, for all kinds of stuff to explore! Maybe a dungeon where we learn more about the origins of the Xaela and how they came to be?������

[Soge01]

I like this idea a lot. It felt as if we barely scratched the surface of the Azim steppes, based on the lore I’ve read outside of game. It’d be great to explore further.

Exactly! The Xaela Tribe just has so much more to teach us! Not just the individual tribes but also the landscape they've dwelled on for centuries, further stories and overall lore on how they came to be and separated into dots upon dots of competing and tolerating clans, and so many other things I've yet to think of (lol xD)!

I like the idea of doing more quests with the Xaela as it's my favorite area (used my Fantasia as soon as I got here because I loved it so much) but the only thing I wouldn't do is the yearly fight (forgot the name) as that would conflict with the msq.

Same here! Although I changed my alt into a Xaela Au'ri when they first came out during Heavensward I'm actually really glad I did though as, like you, I feel like I can seriously enjoy the overall lore that is the Azim Steppe Xaela tribes by better carefully learning about them and thus determining which tribe my own Xaela came from.

Yeah...I could see how making the yearly competition battle between the Xaela tribes being some sort of weekly player completion thingy hurt the lore a bunch, now that you mention it. SO, how about a mini competition where we create our OWN Xaela Tribe by recruiting others from the other tribes and having them participate in a sort of PvP thing amongst other players created tribes? Sort like how the Grand Company Recruit guys we get work. What do you think?

[Iscah]

There are a considerable number of different and unique tribes of the Au'ri Xaela clan scattered throughout Yanxia.

Just wanted to point out that the Azim Steppe is not part of Yanxia - they're separate regions of Othard.

Also, for those saying "steppes", steppe is singular. I also originally thought it looked like it should be plural, and had to look it up to check.

[Soge01]

Just wanted to point out that the Azim Steppe is not part of Yanxia - they're separate regions of Othard.

Also, for those saying "steppes", steppe is singular. I also originally thought it looked like it should be plural, and had to look it up to check.

Thank you for the corrections Iscah! ^^ I wish I could change my thread title now but I don't know how... ;~; Do you know if there is a way to do so?

I shall pronounce step better for now on, too! Thank you again for the duo pointers!

[Mwynn]

Pre SB, Yoshi was hinting that the Xaela guy in Idyllshire would be involved somehow in SB. If you talk to him he nervously implies he's a member of one of the larger tribes..and as of 4.3 nothing has happened to him. So Im holding out hope we'll get more lizard lore from Mr. Piggy eventually.

There is a Sidequest involving his Brother (or... Brother of the Tribe..) mentioning him, why he actually fled from the Steppe and such.

The Quest should be in Reunion.

[Rokke]

There is a Sidequest involving his Brother (or... Brother of the Tribe..) mentioning him, why he actually fled from the Steppe and such.

The Quest should be in Reunion.

Oh, I did that quest back when I swept through the steppe's sidequests. I'm gonna be sad if that little nod was all that we get for him being specifically mentioned by Yoshi :c

[KageTokage]

This expansion is missing is a sidequest series that isn't tied to a raid and isn't Hildibrand.

ARR had the postmoogle quests and HW had the Scholasticate stuff, so I'm hoping we'll get something related to Adkiragh, perhaps helping him sort out his tribal issues so he can go home or at least feel safe not wearing that silly pig mask.

[Rofel]

Now I want a quest where we go back to Bardam's Mettle and fix the traps to the next candidates lmao