(08-06-2013, 07:10 PM)Vlll Wrote: Silly question: Lore states that Duskwight moved and prefer to live in caves, but do Duskwight show preference to any of the city states? Not talking about allignment, I mean actual locations. How "correct" could it be to say, for example "xxxx's clan settled in cave systems below La Noscea".
I reread it and it sounds quite confusing, english isn't my first language, sorry and thanks in advance.
The specific wording states that they settled in the "caves of Eorzea" not "caves of the Twelveswood". The implication is that while all other story elements of the elezen as a whole seem to revolve around Gridania, the Duskwights settled all over Eorzea.
So far as player-created lore, when the devs don't provide lore the players can either make it up as they go along, character by character, try to coordinate it as a community, or just ignore those aspects so far as roleplay is concerned. I wouldn't try to discuss the merits of each option, because that's a larger conversation, but a community driven attempt to create an open, non-binding body of lore on a specific subject (in this case Duskwights) does usually seem to be the best case scenario. Which isn't to say it's a perfect scenario, but it probably beats the alternatives. And there's certainly a wealth of cases (UO, WoW, TR, EVE) where player created lore eventually became official canon lore for some games. I wouldn't expect that to happen with XVI but I suppose it isn't entirely out of the question.