The La Tribe
A Unique Hannish Tribe
The La tribe is a mixed tribe of Seekers of the Sun and Keepers of the Moon. The original La Seekers branched from the L following a disagreement between the Nuhns regarding relocation of the tribe. The elder Nuhn believed in keeping the tribe within Eorzea while the younger felt the tribe would be better served overseas Ultimately, the two Nuhns went their separate ways with their followers. The younger of the Nuhns designated his new tribe the "La" as they were smaller in number. While they began solely as Seekers, they came to pick up the remnants of Keepers families fleeing Ilsabard. With the tribe struggling to find its place in and around Radz-at-Han, the added numbers could not be ignored. With conflicting traditions, the tribe settled on a mixed culture: It would be led by both the Seeker Nuhn and the Keeper Matriarch. Their first Nuhn remained the one who led the Seekers from the initial branch. The tribe Matriarch was given to Mone, the only Matriarch present of the three families who joined the La.
The Nuhn would continue to breed as per Seeker tradition while the Keepers would keep their family units, but the Nuhn could mate with unmarried members of the Keepers at their and the Matriarch’s consent while the Keepers would be permitted to marry into a monogamous relationship with Seekers at their and the Nuhn’s consent. A Tia married to Keeper did not exempt him from being able to seek the title of Nuhn, but none attempted the title until Frey La’moul (born La’frey Tia) in 1498 and Toris La'hahn (born La'toris Tia) in 1510. Each followed extraordinary circumstances. In 1512, the first instance of a married Nuhn-Matriarch leadership arose when Keirna La'hahn was elevated to the role of tribe Matriarch.
To keep with traditions, only children sired by the Nuhn received the Seekers’ naming. Any other child received their naming by Keeper traditions, but with La as a prefix to their mother’s surname similar to how La is a prefix to the forename for Seekers. This was due to Keepers of the Moon being Matriarchal whereas Seekers of the Sun were Patriarchal. Children in the La tribe only came about either through a union with the Nuhn or by marrying into the Keeper side of the tribe. Tia Seeker males were allowed to marry into the Keeper side as a way to have a family and children. In doing so, however, Tia males surrendered their “Tia” title as well as the “La” prefix of their given name, taking their new wife’s family name to follow their given name. Their children would then follow their mother’s Keeper traditions.
[Note: While Seeker males (males sired by the Nuhn) could marry into the Keeper families, Keeper males (males not sired by the Nuhn) could not do the opposite. Only sons of the Nuhn received the title of “Tia” and were eligible to seek the title of “Nuhn.”]
A few complications arose over the years. The first was with La’moul Nuhn. Born La’frey Tia, he married into the Moul Keeper family. He became Frey La’moul in the process and had a daughter, Caith La’moul, with his wife. An attack on the village two years later took the young Moul Matriarch away. The attack showed Frey that the tribe had become weak, and so he challenged for the title of Nuhn from his own brother, La'keist Nuhn. He was the first former Tia to make the challenge. The Matriarch of the time did not think his claim valid due to his marriage to the Keeper families, even though he was now widowed, but the Nuhn accepted. The Matriarch relented on the condition that Frey honor his marriage and deceased wife should he ascend. When he did, he forsook his given name in honor of his late wife and her bloodline. He was thereafter referred to only by his married name and his title, to be remembered as the “La’moul Nuhn.” He bore two daughters as Nuhn who, as a result of Seeker naming convention, took on the surname “Moul.” However, upon being forced to step down from this role due to his health, he took back his married name.
La’moul Nuhn’s ascension to Nuhn set a precedent for other Seeker males who had married into the Keeper side of the Tribe. Though most who did so had little to no interest in taking on the role of Nuhn, it nonetheless opened the door and new decisions had to be made as to determinations on eligibility for the right to challenge for Nuhn. Previously, all Tia who married lost that right as they had to surrender their “Tia” title to take on their new wife’s family name. Now, all Tia would retain that right but would require their wife’s blessing prior to issuing the challenge. Only those Tia whose wife had passed on prior to the challenge (such as the case with La’moul Nuhn) would be required to alter their name in their wife’s honor upon ascension.
Thus is how La’toris Nuhn came to be, along with a second complication in naming. La’toris became Nuhn with great support from both the tribe and his wife in order to oust his unstable brother, La'quen Nuhn. Keirna's ascension to Matriarch two years later was followed within months by the birth of their firstborn, a pair of twin girls. With Keirna’s significance as Matriarch, they couldn’t ignore her right to continue her name. As such, they created a new precedent as well: In the event of a Nuhn-Matriarch marriage, all children carried by the Matriach (in this case, Keirna) would carry on her name while all children otherwise sired by the Nuhn would carry on Seeker tradition.
The aftermath of La'quen and the brief existence of his branching tribe, the Lb Tribe, cause a third complication. Now Lb'quen Nuhn, his tribe had been forcibly formed largely of merchants and refugees that he had lured and trapped. With his defeat and the tribe's liberation, this brought an influx of new members who had not been born to the La Tribe and had not previously been subject to its unique traditions. While all who had been liberated took on the "La" prefix to their name in some fashion and most had remained with the tribe, it could not be ignored that some members had come from tribes other than the La or Lb. It was thus that La'toris Nuhn declared that any Tia brought in from the Lb tribe, whether sired by Lb'quen or from other tribes altogether, were eligible to challenge for the right to the role of Nuhn. He further emphasized this in 1552 when La'kolwe Tia (born J'kolwe Tia) stepped up to challenge the aging Nuhn. La'kolwe succeeded in his challenge and, despite the guilt he harbored when his challenge resulted in La'toris Nuhn's death, ascended to the role of Nuhn as La'kolwe Nuhn.
The first Nuhn of the La tribe ascended to the role in 1301. At the time, he was the secondary Nuhn of the L Tribe. This same year saw the birth of Mone Hahn of the Hahn Family in Landis, Ilsabard. It took the fledling La Tribe seven years to arrive upon the shores of Thavnair in 1308. They appealed their case to the reigning Satrap at the time, who welcomed the La Tribe with open arms. They ventured north into the jungles of Vanaspati where there was planty of room to grow without coming into conflict with those who already called Vanaspati home.
Following a particularly harsh winter in 1319, multiple families of Keepers of the Moon chose to make their way out of Ilsabard for better lands. Mone Hahn was forced to take on the role of Matriarch of the Hahn family when her mother succumbed to illness. She collected the Moul and Bourth families with her own as all three were equally hit the hardest and both of the other two had lost their own Matriarchs with no suitable successor yet of age. Taking to sea, the families aimed for the first port the ship reached. It was there that they found open arms among the La Tribe and, after negotiating the rules of a mixed culture, the ruling Nuhn and Matriarch combined their groups into one. Within a few years, Mone married Poki'sae La'bourth. She gave birth to their first child in 1327, making Lail La'hahn the first Keeper to be born within the La Tribe. In 1331 the first Nuhn was succeeded by one of his sons, who was himself succeeded in 1352 by his youngest brother.
Mone gave birth to her next children in 1335 (a son, Mone'a) and 1341 (a daughter, Vay) before losing her husband two months later. An avid alchemist since 1339, Mone suffered an accident in 1349. Despite being suffused with an experimental and unstable concoction, she is deemed stable and seemingly unaffected. However, Mone would step down as Matriarch in 1355 with suspicions that were confirmed by her fellow alchemists two years later. The accident had caused Mone to cease aging. Concerned about what this would do to the Tribe, Mone entrusted the truth to her youngest child before departing for Radz-at-Han. She hoped that working with the alchemists of the High Crucible of Al-Kimiya would find a solution to her predicament.
In her absence, life carried on with the La Tribe. They welcomed their first non-La tribe member in 1359 with the arrival of Kulin Zorasch. While originally intending to work as a hunter in exchange for a place to stay, he and Vay fell in love. Lail La'hahn gave her blessing for their marriage a year later. To the surprise of all, Vay gave birth to two children by Kulin: Daughters Tris (1363) and Bela (1368). Bela's particularly difficult birth caused the couple to take precautions against any more children.
It was in 1380 that Mone reached out to Vay one last time. Having come no closure to solving her predicament, she convinced Vay to help her forge her passing in a letter to the La Tribe. Vay complied, delivering a "letter from overseas." Mone would remain in Radz-at-Han, continuing to study alchemy in search of her cure. Despite her compliance, Vay entrusted the truth to her youngest daughter, Bela, as she has been entrusted by Mone.
Uninterested in marriage but still desiring to be a mother, Bela La'hahn became the first Keeper to mate with a Nuhn. In 1403, she gave birth to the first Keeper Tia, La'vern Tia. The Nuhn of the time, La'vanoh Nuhn, later sired her second child, La'bour Tia, who was born in 1410. La'bour would go on to become Nuhn in 1430. Bela used this momentous occasion to entrust the new Nuhn with the truth about Mone La'hahn as she had once been entrusted. He would use this knowledge in 1439 following a rash of illness that would claim many lives, including Bela. Desperate to prevent further loss, he had hoped to enlist Mone's aid as an alchemist. She obliged, returning to the tribe under the moniker of "Grandma La." At his request, she remained with the tribe until 1443 following the birth of La'bour's second child, La'van. La'bour would be succeeded as Nuhn in 1450 by his younger brother, La'tenpe.
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