Wow. Big thread from long ago. I read several pages but not the whole thing. My immediate first thoughts were things I thought I'd read but have no references for anymore.
1.) I thought I read somewhere that "humanity" or "mankind" within FFXIV's context actually referred to all the sentient races as a collective whole, never to just hyur. That would encourage looking at the different races less biologically and more culturally. Of course, I don't know of a human culture that has restricted access between genders due to a very real numbers disparity (as opposed to restricted access imposed by the culture), but in my case, that's where the interest lies. What would a human culture do in such a situation (insert examples of colony development here)?
and 2.) I thought I read somewhere that crossbreeds had a sort of Lady & the Tramp effect, where the resultant offspring is not a phenotypic mix but externally takes after one or the other of the parents, not both, which in the sense of what we see walking around the game makes it a lot more viable to play one. Yeah, my mother was a roegadyn and my father was a lalafell, but I take after my dad. Them's the breaks.
Woo, thoughts without references or reading the entire massive thread.
1.) I thought I read somewhere that "humanity" or "mankind" within FFXIV's context actually referred to all the sentient races as a collective whole, never to just hyur. That would encourage looking at the different races less biologically and more culturally. Of course, I don't know of a human culture that has restricted access between genders due to a very real numbers disparity (as opposed to restricted access imposed by the culture), but in my case, that's where the interest lies. What would a human culture do in such a situation (insert examples of colony development here)?
and 2.) I thought I read somewhere that crossbreeds had a sort of Lady & the Tramp effect, where the resultant offspring is not a phenotypic mix but externally takes after one or the other of the parents, not both, which in the sense of what we see walking around the game makes it a lot more viable to play one. Yeah, my mother was a roegadyn and my father was a lalafell, but I take after my dad. Them's the breaks.
Woo, thoughts without references or reading the entire massive thread.