Miqo'te

[Angelov-Mercy]

What can you tell me about Miqo'te society?



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[Kaliesto]

That Miqo'te you posted is best Miqo'te (I don't have much to add really).

If I remember right that a lot of Miqo'te Women mate with one male within the tribe? (Correct me if I'm wrong on that).

[Waterscape]

2b butt / limsa lominsa.

[Enkidoh]

That Miqo'te you posted is best Miqo'te (I don't have much to add really).

If I remember right that a lot of Miqo'te Women mate with one male within the tribe? (Correct me if I'm wrong on that).

That's only the Seekers of the Sun (Keepers of the Moon have more traditional family units in their tribe, but still matriarchal, in that the males generally stay home to raise the children, making the Moonkeepers rather like the mithra from FFXI).

Sunseekers restrict breeding rights for males to a single member or (if the tribe is particularly large) several members who have earned the privelage of the title of "nuhn", which involves challenging the current holder of the title in combat (and winning). All other males are given the title of "tia" which becomes their surname. Being a nuhn does not necessarily equate to "chief" or leader of the tribe though, although they still seem to have certain political sway in the tribe, Sunseeker tribes are still fundamentally matriarchal.

The Lore forum is probably a better place to ask this question though.

[Angelov-Mercy]

So Sunseekers are like a clan of lions?

...and the moon ones are like drow?

[SilverObi]

You would be well served to browse the Lore forums.

[Angelov-Mercy]

You would be well served to browse the Lore forums.

I guess it's buried in there somewhere, someday I may sort through it and see if I can find what I'm looking for, possibly get a discussion going on it if the thread isn't out of date. Sorry to bother...

[SilverObi]

I guess it's buried in there somewhere, someday I may sort through it and see if I can find what I'm looking for, possibly get a discussion going on it if the thread isn't out of date. Sorry to bother...

No bother and no reason to apologize I was just trying to point you in the direction of where you'll most likely find answers to any questions you have. A lot of cultural info is already pinned, more specific topics could probably be found with keyword searches or just making a topic in there asking. The loremongers love sharing and love when people show interest

[Averax]

In both subsets of the race, far more females are born than males.

Sun seekers are a patriarchal society. Their names begin with Letter which stands for what their tribe hunts, so there's an A tribe through Z tribe.

Each tribe has one (more if the tribe is large) breeding male, they are referred to as the Nunh, and all non breeding males are referred to as Tia, a Tia may become a nunh by proving himself stronger and more capable than the current Nunh, and a Nunh may become a Tia after losing such a contest to another Tia. Being a Nunh does not make you the chief of the tribe, it just means you are allowed to reproduce. Only the strongest are allowed to be the Nunh to ensure the strongest offspring.

Sun seeker women are the hunters and gatherers of the tribe, they schedule couplings with the Nunh if they are inclined to reproduce. A sun seeker woman's surname is her father's forename. So if her father was Y'rhul Nunh, her name would be something like Y'shtolah Rhul.


Moon keeper society is much different, as they are a matriarchal society. The same rules apply, there are much fewer males than female.

A moon keeper tribe has a focus on family and community. The women raise the children and keep everything within their tribe running, while the men are extremely antisocial by nature, and spend most of their time hunting alone. They return to the tribe to bring back what they hunt, and sometimes mate, though there are no rules on who mates in a keeper tribe. A moon keeper woman would tell you that moon keeper males are best in small amounts anyway, so they aren't bothered by their general absence most of the time.

Moon keeper women are given their own names, and family names are passed down from the mother rather than the father. While moon keeper men are given their mother's name, along with a suffix to denote which son they are.

'a = 1st son
'to = 2nd son
'li = 3rd son
'sae = 4th son
'ra = 5th son
'ir = 6th son
'wo = 7th son
'ya = 8th son
'zi = 9th son
'tan = 10th son.

There are not more than this because it's incredibly unlikely that one moon keeper family will produce more than a couple of sons, but for example, if a male keeper has a mother named Sizha Epocan and two older brothers, his name would be Sizha'li Epocan

Edit: there's a lot of untrodden ground of mixed heritage Miqo'te. So the naming conventions are up in the air on that.

[LineageRazor]

These sort of questions are great for the Lore forums. This question in particular has a lot of info in one of the stickied topics there: the race naming conventions thread.

If you're interested in knowing more about the lore of the game, that's the place to go!