Quote Originally Posted by Turnintino View Post
On this subject, though; do we know if Twelve worship was something they always did in tandem with the people of Eorzea, or if this was something they adapted during their time in the Eorzean Sharlayan-now-Idyllshire? Probably when they picked up (more?) of what we once thought of as distinctly Eorzean races as well. Not that they can't be sent there at any time before or since, like so many of our Scions, but ya know.
Thaliak has been Sharlayan's patron deity since it was voted on shortly after its founding. Choosing a patron deity for a city-state seems to be a thing since at least the 5th Astral Era and the city itself was founded by Eorzeans. Lore book says they pray to all the Twelve besides Thaliak though, who was just chosen based on what he stands for. Sharlayans, or at least Louisoix and the Circle of Knowing, seem to be actively religious as well considering they attempted to summon the Twelve and were nearly successful, faith being a strong requirement in summonings.


Going back to the Highlanders, one of the things that upset me when 1.0 lore switched to ARR was that the Calamities didn't make a lick of sense with the already established lore and were very obviously just thrown in to excuse zone reconstruction. Dunesfolk came from desert island people and weren't Mhachi mages who somehow physically adapted and evolved to the desert in a very short amount of time. And Highlanders were originally a flavor of hardy Hyur who were the first Hyur settlers of Eorzea that made forts in the mountainous regions. Honestly I prefer that with an added vagueness of Roegadyn mixing (they live in the mountains and are sailors like Hyur too) over "they were Hyur mages who randomly ended up in the middle of a salt-blasted wasteland because they followed a star and abandoning their Mhachi Lalafell compatriots for some reason? and got big and decided to file their teeth, shave their eyebrows, and pick up the polearm and punching the heck out of things just because".