New "Traditional" Miqo'te gear and tribes in Dawntrail please?

[Aryalandi]

I recently started playing again, and noticed that compared to the other races Miqo'te aren't really fleshed out much beyond the U tribe and Brotherhood of Ash quest chains.

Elezen has an expansion, lalafel has a whole city-state, Highlanders have an expansion, the Au'ra have a lot of lore, Roegadyn have a city-state, even Viera got a bit of lore.. so I'd kind of like to see some roleplay enabling lore and gear for traditional miqo'te, something which was fairly abundant in Final Fantasy XI





parts of this sort of gear were pretty popular for mithra npc's that were meant to be from their homeland for example, I'm hoping that in Dawntrail we get a new traditionalist sort of miqo'te tribe that live outside the new city/hub and that they look the part and have their traditions explored in quests atleast

Things like hunting efficiently, being connected to the land and the balance between hunters and prey were important to mithra in XI, the entire unlock quest for Ranger was built off of that.

So essentially, have a tribe that keeps to traditions, like in hunting and then bringing home their kills and using every part of their kill, for food and shelter and for clothing, things pelt based clothing and leather with bone and feather ornamentation, actual loin cloth-esque gear, etc..

It could be leather crafter glamor, and carpenter could have decorations like totem poles and wall hanging wooden masks like this one


I lean in a very princess mononoke direction with my seeker XD which is why I based my own on Loonh Gah and the U tribe miqo'te..

I'd like to see things that set them apart from their "civilized" counterparts, which is something that sort of bothered me about the coeurlclaw poachers in the base game who are supposed to be ultra-traditiomal keepers of the moon who pretty much spit in the face of the Gridanian's trying to tell them not to, while they still dress like everyone else.

I can't help but imagine if they were walking around in antelope pelts and horns from their kills and bigger tribal masks that they cut from the trees.. thus giving a lot of ammunition for why Gridania doesn't like them.

it would have made them immediately stand out as being vastly different from miqo'te that they look down on like Leih Aliapoh who conforms to Gridanian laws and fits in with everyone else.

This sort of thing is also why I loved the skyhunter gear in heavensward and that entire storyline, even though it wasn't specifically based around miqo'te (though your companion is one) it was very much in line with my character.

Just some hopes for miqo'te representation going forward into a more (seemingly) untamed land based around hunting down big game and having mass bbq's afterwards like the trailer lol..

[Enkidoh]

According to the old FFXIII event back in 2013, the miqo'te starting armour is actually the 'traditional' attire of miqo'te, although that was a crossover event so it's canonicity is questionable.

One thing to remember is unlike FFXI here in FFXIV none of the races of Hydaelyn really have a 'home' city anymore, due to the cycles of Umbral and Astral repeatedly wiping out whole cities and cultures, and the various races travelling around the planet and settling in new places after each Calamity, so there is really no 'traditional' attire for any of them any more.

[Aryalandi]

According to the old FFXIII event back in 2013, the miqo'te starting armour is actually the 'traditional' attire of miqo'te, although that was a crossover event so it's canonicity is questionable.

One thing to remember is unlike FFXI here in FFXIV none of the races of Hydaelyn really have a 'home' city anymore, due to the cycles of Umbral and Astral repeatedly wiping out whole cities and cultures, and the various races travelling around the planet and settling in new places after each Calamity, so there is really no 'traditional' attire for any of them any more.

I'm leaning more towards "traditional" in terms of their hunter culture, lore-wise miqo'te were always based around hunting, they arrived in Eorzea because they were following herds of antelope across the ice and wound up settling when they reached the other side as I recall, admittedly.. I refuse to consider the "traditional" miqo'te starter gear as traditional.. >.>;; it's a skirt.. lol..

[RavLandslide]

One thing to remember is unlike FFXI here in FFXIV none of the races of Hydaelyn really have a 'home' city anymore, due to the cycles of Umbral and Astral repeatedly wiping out whole cities and cultures, and the various races travelling around the planet and settling in new places after each Calamity, so there is really no 'traditional' attire for any of them any more.

I don't really think that affects too much. Look at Ishgard, it's been around for more than a thousand years. They have their own traditional fancy clothes and their own style of armour. I think there's definitely a possibility that Miqo'te have been in Tural for a long time too, so they could also have their own traditions there.

[Fawkes]

[Aryalandi]

I don't really think that affects too much. Look at Ishgard, it's been around for more than a thousand years. They have their own traditional fancy clothes and their own style of armour. I think there's definitely a possibility that Miqo'te have been in Tural for a long time too, so they could also have their own traditions there.

^ This is my thought exactly, and the setting (to me) would be perfect for a kind of jungle hunter tribe theme to them, especially when you have other inhabitants of the same location doing the same sort of thing, at the very least the /gear/ could easily be a thing even if I don't get a new place to hang around when I'm role-playing my hunter.

I was so happy when the feathered headdress/new world set came out in xiv admittedly, even if it was a bit controversial at the time, also, I miss the foot wraps and I did actually appreciate the fact that the starter gear there is actually a modest-ish take on what the item says it is.

[Fawkes]

It's probably going to be femhroths that get lore and stuff in Dawntrail. Best case scenario it's cats of all sizes living together and they lump some miqo'te in there too.

[Aryalandi]

I'll be happy for female hrothgar if/when we (definitely will) get them, though that doesn't mean no miqo'te, I'm holding out hope (probably in vain, but still, I can dream)

>.> now I'm imagining a viera vs miqo'te tribe war being a thing, with your character being a mediator..

Though I can see miqo'te being present around hrothgar rather easily.. XD because it's like a natural progression to hang around with factual lion people..

[IckeDerTyp]

More glams are always good so,

Yes please!

[AugustI]

+1

Any kind of Mithra-esque additions have my vote.