#nachin

He has many, most not fascinating to tell on its own. Most are from combat, hunting, or training! His most recent was ‘friendly fire’; a near vertical scar drawn between his shoulder blades, the mark faded after receiving proper healing. He was on an airship and the crew went temporarily insane. An axe was buried in his back while he was turned, but luckily everyone came back to their senses before things got really bloody. @cmazing—

Q: What would happen to a Qestir tribe member that chose to speak? Would they be punished in some way?

A: Ok so for those who don't know the Qestir in the little lore blurb it's that they refuse to speak, they don't say anything, so in game they always have the 'dot dot dot' when someone tries to talk with them or they try to talk to you. There are a couple reasons, they can't speak because they've never learned to speak. Their children are raised basically in silence. And it's not even until they are 6,7,8,9,10 years old when they finally actually hear language when they leave the tribe and visit Reunion or maybe someone comes to their tribe to speak and trade with them. This is the first time they actually hear speech so think about it. These children are being raised without hearing any vowels, any consonants, nothing at all. So they don't know how to speak. So even if they wanted to it would mostly come out in [groaning] sounds.

That said, even if one tried really hard, and tried to speak would they be punished? They wouldn't be punished, per say, but -again- the Qestir don't speak for a specific reason, that specific reason is that they believe all spoken word to be lies. So if they did speak in the presence of their tribe, basically the rest of the tribe would think "Ok, this guy is a liar." He would be ostracized as a liar, everything he said would be lies and you'd never believe him anymore. And so they wouldn't be kicked out, per say, but, yeah, they would be liars.

Okay, but how can I claim a voice who’s (normally) perpetually silent? Easy, have a listen to one of his sample voice lines, like when he needs to answer a linkshell. If he were (ahem) to speak though, I think Nachin would resemble Gong Yoo’s accent and pitch. But obviously less pronounced.

Thanks for the tag - @ganchinuaxiv @kasumi-ffxiv