Miqo Te

General

Miqo Te, a.k.a "Writer of Histories", is a female Miqo'te of Seeker of the Sun clan, registered in the database on 26/07/2024 with 45845893 for ID.

Born on 1st Sun of the 1st Astral Moon under protection of Halone, the Fury.

Currently is resident of Ul'dah, Thanalan on Seraph of Dynamis.

Reached rank of Second Flame Lieutenant in Immortal Flames Grand company.

Last interview was conducted on 27/12/2024 16:37. This is what adventurer had to say during it:

Perfection is a state, variously, of completeness, flawlessness, or supreme excellence.

The term is used to designate a range of diverse, if often kindred, concepts. These have historically been addressed in a number of discrete disciplines, notably mathematics, physics, chemistry, ethics, aesthetics, ontology, and theology.

The form of the word long fluctuated in various languages. The English language had the alternates, "perfection" and the Biblical "perfectness." The word "perfection" derives from the Latin "perfectio", and "perfect" — from "perfectus". These expressions in turn come from "perficio" — "to finish", "to bring to an end." "Perfectio(n)" thus literally means "a finishing", and "perfect(us)" — "finished", much as in grammatical parlance ("perfect").

The genealogy of the concept of "perfection" reaches back beyond Latin, to Greek. The Greek equivalent of the Latin "perfectus" was "teleos." The latter Greek expression generally had concrete referents, such as a perfect physician or flutist, a perfect comedy or a perfect social system. Hence the Greek "teleiotes" was not yet so fraught with abstract and superlative associations as would be the Latin "perfectio" or the modern "perfection." To avoid the latter associations, the Greek term has generally been translated as "completeness" rather than "perfection."

The oldest definition of "perfection", fairly precise and distinguishing the shades of the concept, goes back to Aristotle. In Book Delta of the Metaphysics, he distinguishes three meanings of the term, or rather three shades of one meaning, but in any case three different concepts. That is perfect:

1. Which is complete — which contains all the requisite parts;
2. Which is so good that nothing of the kind could be better;
3. Which has attained its purpose.

The first of these concepts is fairly well subsumed within the second. Between those two and the third, however, there arises a duality in concept. This duality was expressed by Thomas Aquinas, in the Summa Theologica, when he distinguished a twofold perfection: when a thing is perfect in itself — as he put it, in its substance; and when it perfectly serves its purpose.

The variants on the concept of perfection would have been quite of a piece for two thousand years, had they not been confused with other, kindred concepts. The chief of these was the concept of that which is the best: in Latin, "excellentia" ("excellence"). In antiquity, "excellentia" and "perfectio" made a pair; thus, for example, dignitaries were called "perfectissime", just as they are now called "excellency."

Nevertheless, these two expression of high regard differ fundamentally: "excellentia" is a distinction among many, and implies comparison; while "perfectio" involves no comparison, and if something is deemed perfect, then it is deemed so in itself, without comparison to other things.

In the end, I was able to create the perfect miqo'te, free of flaws or impurities of any sort.

Affiliations

✔ Half & Half ➧

✔ Precious ➧

Last achievements

Stick Them with the Pointy End X ➧ Mapping the Realm: Matoya's Relict ➧ Bushido Blade VI ➧ Slaughterhouse Three ➧ Sage, Heal Thyself ➧ Just Talkin' 'bout Shafts X ➧ Bring Out Your Dead X ➧ An Extract Science III ➧ Do No Harm III ➧ Mammet Is the Measure of Most Things ➧

Job affinities

Job	Level	Last change
Bard	100	27/12/2024
Black Mage	100	27/12/2024
Dancer	100	27/12/2024
Gunbreaker	100	27/12/2024
Monk	100	27/12/2024
Paladin	100	27/12/2024
Sage	100	27/12/2024
Samurai	100	27/12/2024
Scholar	100	27/12/2024
Summoner	100	27/12/2024
Warrior	100	27/12/2024
White Mage	100	27/12/2024
Total:	1200