Xbr’aal lore?

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Yet elsewhere Turali terminology is used directly referring to features of a specific race.


We also know the Shetona have their own language and we see them living among the Tonawawta.

And that’s not even getting into non-playable Turali races who all have racial features exclusively attributed to the specific clan names.

Right, the Shetona are said to be a clan of viera, so those are used interchangeably, as per the self-assured trader. Like Wuk Lamat says:

Wuk Lamat: You might hear the Hyur in Tural referred to as “Tonawawta,” one of our major clans. As for Erenville, he belongs to a Viera clan known as the “Shetona.”

But all that means is that we see two clans living together but still distinct from each other.

Like the self-assured trader says races are often called by the major clan name (so they're clan names used racially) but there can still be people from clans that aren't from that race. And we see two hrothgar which do not feature Xbr'aal names but Tonawawta names, I think the assumption would be that they fit in that already described exceptions, rather than a whole new set of circumstances that we've never heard of before. Nothing about Nitowikwe or Wawlika implies that they took Tonawawta names.

It's an understandable thing to get confused about, because Nitowikwe and Wawlika are basically the only examples of this.

If we saw some hrothgar casually hanging out with the Hanuhanu in Kozuma'uka that would bridge that, but the only places we see a diversity of races are in the places where we'd expect a bunch of cultural crossover anyway.

And that's fair. We also did technically see someone take a name of a clan that's not their own.... Apyaahi from the Passage of the Unbound, who is specifically an "old world" viera that took a Shetona name when she arrived in Tural, but also she was a very silly person.