Being an Ishgardian Miqo'te is easy. Ishgard has existed for 1000 years and has been closed off to outsiders for just the past twenty. Find somewhere inside that 980 year gap and say your character's parents/ancestors immigrated and their family has lived there ever since.
So once you've established how your Miqo'te came to be in Ishgard, you then need to figure out where they fit socially. More likely than not that place is at or near the bottom. Nobility is for the Elezen almost exclusively (I'm sure there are a few Hyur nobles running around somewhere). Outsider races likely get to wallow around with the peasants and tradesmen.
There definitely do appear to be some avenues for advancement, the military being the most obvious example. An immigrant family could probably aspire to become fairly respected at the trades, or become merchants.
The reason I bring any of that up is that being an astrologian would almost certainly require a formal education. You should consider how it was your character was able to acquire the funds and social standing to be able to partake of this education. Was their father a knight of some accomplishment? Was their mother a skilled seamstress employed by a noblewoman? Things like that.
And as has been mentioned earlier in the thread, once you've figured out all of the above, you'll need to account for a significant dose of racism and classism that would inevitably be directed at your character throughout their lifetime.
So once you've established how your Miqo'te came to be in Ishgard, you then need to figure out where they fit socially. More likely than not that place is at or near the bottom. Nobility is for the Elezen almost exclusively (I'm sure there are a few Hyur nobles running around somewhere). Outsider races likely get to wallow around with the peasants and tradesmen.
There definitely do appear to be some avenues for advancement, the military being the most obvious example. An immigrant family could probably aspire to become fairly respected at the trades, or become merchants.
The reason I bring any of that up is that being an astrologian would almost certainly require a formal education. You should consider how it was your character was able to acquire the funds and social standing to be able to partake of this education. Was their father a knight of some accomplishment? Was their mother a skilled seamstress employed by a noblewoman? Things like that.
And as has been mentioned earlier in the thread, once you've figured out all of the above, you'll need to account for a significant dose of racism and classism that would inevitably be directed at your character throughout their lifetime.
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