Future Male Mithra

[Acira]

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There is no such thing as Female Galka in the FFXI's story so they cant just pop out.

I know I know. I wasn't disagreeing with you or anything. I was merely using a metaphor.

I personally have no objection to a playable Mithra Male in the story. I just feel that it probably won't happen due to the amount of people that will just suddenly drop their old characters/jobs and start on it fresh. Though I am sure many would do this.

[Kyero Fox]

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I know I know. I wasn't disagreeing with you or anything. I was merely using a metaphor.

I personally have no objection to a playable Mithra Male in the story. I just feel that it probably won't happen due to the amount of people that will just suddenly drop their old characters/jobs and start on it fresh. Though I am sure many would do this.

I would make a new Character (Manthra) If they were playable.

[Diogenes]

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I don't think they will add playable male Mithra's to the game.

I saw someone mentioning female Galkas.
You sadist, such an unpleasant sight is not meant for the human eye to percieve.

[Kyero Fox]

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I don't think they will add playable male Mithra's to the game.

I saw someone mentioning female Galkas.
You sadist, such an unpleasant sight is not meant for the human eye to percieve.

No one knows. The reason i made the tread was to discuse if there was gona be Male Mithra.

[Murphie]

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The only reason I have always doubted it, is because of the way the game is structured. Most folks aren't going to want to start over from scratch if they were to introduce a male Mithra as a playable race. I mean, I'm sure some folks would, and I'll bet there would be a ton of mules made as one, but there just doesn't seem to be much reason to do it.

Now on the other hand, I could totally see them introducing them as NPCs only. That seems fair.

[Kailea]

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No one knows. The reason i made the tread was to discuse if there was gona be Male Mithra.

and there wont be.... they will show up as NPC only in the Mithran homeland when an expansion comes out that has that palce in it. and I am preety sure the way the races DNA works.... you cant have crossbreeds, and SE would not make a crossbreed a playable race, infact I think SE said that they dont want to ahve anymore playable races. One more might be added in the next to expansions, but I dont think it will be male Mithra, it WILL screw with the Mithras base storyline.

[Aeolus]

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I don't think they will ever add another playable race seens as so many people won't want to restart. Mind you, would be cool if only 100 or so of a race were kicking about on the servers

[Lilani]

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I'm personally really not looking forward to male mithra characters, let alone playable ones. Mithra's have always had a only-female image in the game... It'd ruin it if there would be male ones. Well, my gameplay would be destroyed. And I don't even do RP or anything.

But the thing is, they already do exist, we just haven't gotten to the part of Vana'diel that they reside in yet.

I'm looking forward to it, it will finally give us some respect (hopefully). I hate the fact that mithra have become the porno stars of FFXI, and the fact that every other person I meet asks me if I'm a girl or not. It's just plain sad....

[Murphie]

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But the thing is, they already do exist, we just haven't gotten to the part of Vana'diel that they reside in yet.

I'm looking forward to it, it will finally give us some respect (hopefully). I hate the fact that mithra have become the porno stars of FFXI, and the fact that every other person I meet asks me if I'm a girl or not. It's just plain sad....

Well, that's just stupidity. I played a Mithra for the better part of a year, and it's a good, solid race. While there are the occasional idiots that assum you're a girl just because your character is one (although I've never understood why they would assume that an all-female [playable] race wouldn't have more than it's fair share of male gamers ), most people know it's not so, and they treat Mithra accordingly.

In my LS we have a number of Mithra, and I think only one of them is a bona fide RL girl.

People play for the stats, damn it! And because they look good in nearly all of the gear out there.

Anyway, long rambling post to basically say: Mithra are only the porn stars of Vana'diel to people who aren't very good critical thinkers.

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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again im gona say it again.....

Making male mithras playable will NOT! break FFXI's story. Because they dont HAVE to make them Pure Mithra. They can be Crossbreeds of Humes and Mithras or Elvaans.

and that Kichen comment is Sexist

Well, there have been no playable male mithra for about 4+ years now. Were SE to add them now, it would disrupt the mythos they've worked to create. I'd agree it would be nice to see a male mithra NPC or have some plotline

But making the male playable takes away from the idea that the female is the dominant side of the mithran race. Suddenly, you'd have like hundreds of male mithra all over world. Chalking it up to breeding with hume or Elvaan... or Tarus.... wouldn't make much sense because other crossbreeds wouldn't exist... and it would seem kinda wrong for them to exist. Humes with bigger ears, Elvaans with dog-like noses... tall, skinny tarus. I'd assume that if a Hume guy and a Mithra female hooked up, she'd probably end up having a female mithra because their genetics are just too strong to let males happen often.

Plus, the rest of the races have gender equity. You know what that means. First there's some suffarage movement, then they'll be able to vote, then they get access to better jobs and start to take over the workplace, colleges and political office. No, we're just gonna keep the male mithra in the kitchen and working at the auction houses of the four nations. Otherwise, we're just going to keep them in that cave in Kazham Tio Moshroca guards. Their attempts to escape have been so laughable she wears lighter armor now

[Neomage]

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What I find odd is that SE said they where going to add the mithra homeland in Aht Urgan, but didn't even mention it in the storyline.

[Aeolus]

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Theyre still adding updates tho right?

[Kailea]

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Mithran homeland is to the far south... not far east, you wont see it in this expansion, but maybe the next. I dont think SE said that they would add the homeland, I think they said somethign along the lines of "you just wait and see" it was a respose to someone asling that question at the fan festival.

[Kyero Fox]

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We just have to wait for the future. No one knows what the future holds.

[Draco Dagon]

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As for Male Mithra's you have consider not only the Mythology (Hebrew if I remember right) but that they are also Cat Elves as the manual stated. Being so they carry many qualities of a society that cats do, that means that the Females are the adventurers, hunters, gatherers, etc...

Hebraism has nothing mithra.

Males are rare, for every 10 females born a male might be, so there for to keep the race strong, the males are kept safe by staying in their homeland.

If they're actually rare as described by SE, it'd have to be more like 1% of the entire population. Otherwise, they wouldn't be so protected if they're 10% of the population.



My thoughts...

SE is a company. Companies eventually evolve, as well as their products-unless they want to be left in hell. Will SE release a male-mithra race? I don't know. But I'll tell you this, SE is smart enough and has the experience that they''ve a probable storyline ready if they choose to release the male mithra race as a PC-and not just an NPC, irregardless of what anyone else says. And also irregardless of what others say, a story MUST expand, period, and if SE didn't prepare for that then they have failed at the true final fantasy.