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Morgant = Human
Lexis, I agree with almost all of your points. This is what concerns me, "all we can deduce just using the in-game text is that she is a child of fomorian origin", don't you mean human oirigin, if we're going by bloodline? What are you referring to, Ruairi's line when they first met?
As well, I don't think Humans actually KNOW what Fomors look like. Humans thought Andras was a Fomor because of her ears, back when Iria was kept secret from non-traders. I'm not saying all do, but I moreso think Fomor is used as a term for outsider, rather than a litteral species, most of the time. That is assuming there is such a species called a Fomor, and not just a collection of cultures. the only way we can say Triona is a Fomor is if she specifically says she's a Fomor (if she says she's a Human later, in my opinion, we should say neither Human nor Fomor and state that both are said, until clarified if she is mix breed, if she somehow got a species change, etc.) Unfortunitely, that will never happen unless they have a flashback of when she was alive. The only other way is if we get an actual definition on what "Fomor" means, its up for interpretation right now so it's very confusing.
One last thing, her father being human doesn't mean she has to have any human blood, this is a freaking phantasy game. Thus far, this is what I think should be done: Morgant should be called a Human on his page, since it specifically refers to himself as a Human once in the game and no other references to his species in that form. Lugh on the other hand should say unclear and explain why (like what I did). Triona should say Unclear/Unknown as well, we can say she is the daughter of a human, and she was possibly mistaken for a Fomor. We cannot have any definites on any of these NPCs but Morgant, since, in my personal opinion, social background facts like species should not be up for interpretation. In these kind of cases, you shouldn't be avoiding technicalities, technicalities are what is important.
I'll shut up now, it feels like all I ever do now days is stalk/annoy talk pages and work on minor projects.
Rereading what I was able to record for that recap thing:
Yeah. Pretty much child of Fomorian origin.
Ah, I see your point there.
Oh and just to add on to the definition of Fomor point, do we actually know why Ruairi suspects her of being a Fomor? Because she's in a dungeon? Because she has red eyes? (A lot of NPCs, such as Alissa and Ferghus have red eyes.) Is it because of the clothing she wears? (That symbol on her necklace is repeatedly acknowledged to be Druid in Mabinogi. Only in Vindictus has it ever been said to be Fomor.) Is it one of those things where we are just left in the dark as to what makes Fomors distinguishable? For all I know, Fomors could have an insanely deep voice, even little girls, and that's how Ruairi was able to tell. (Enjoy that mental image.)
All this stuff is giving me a headache... I want to kill whoever designed this.
Ruairi suspecting her as a Fomor:
—Ruairi |
Then in the next cutscene:
—Ruairi |
Nope, they don't tell us why.
Insanely deep voice? I know that's true for Shakarr and Verafim in Vindictus, but Verafim's voice is pretty light when he speaks English.
I stalk talk pages too. Don't feel bad about that.
Wait, so Ruairi DOESN'T think Triona looks like a Fomor? Why the heck does he suspect her then?!
And the deep voice thing wasn't serious. . _.
Extreme naivety, maybe?