Hi there!
I am a stickler for lore and I absolutely hate breaking it. If it could make sense, I'm alright with bending it; however, I prefer to make characters that appeal to more lore-heavy roleplayers. Bending so the character is unique, yet plausible for the world? A-okay.
My issue is that I can't seem to find a lot of Au Ra lore! It looks like they are very rare in Eorzea and haven't spread out too much beyond Othard.
What I'd like to do is have Qo'an be Sharlayan, mostly because I play as an Astrologian and would like to roleplay that as well. Also because I like the little gizmos a lot of Sharlayan scholars have, like those neat goggles.
I'd like for her to somehow have a connection to her race as well – perhaps knowing how to read bones and / or blood spatters and learning that when young - but I'm not too sure if that could work with a 30 year old character. Her mother / father could have passed down some writings, but I seem to recall Xaela not having a writing system.
I was thinking of potentially having Qo'an's mother give birth as a refugee in Sharlayan or having her abandoned as a babe / young child due to a physical disability to a Sharlayan cartographer in Othard (if that is an occupation for them). The latter could be interesting to roleplay, as I enjoy characters with physical flaws.
So here are my main questions..
- Are Sharlayan Au Ra possible lore-wise? I can't find any hard evidence that says 'no', but I'd like to stick with popular opinion.
- If I do this, what is an appropriate age? I am trying to keep her around late 20s, early 30s.
- I am a little confused on the time line for the Sharlayan migration. They began as an island nation, migrated to Eorzea, and then withdrew back to their island at the Garlean threat after the fall of Ala Mhigo? Was the island nation still occupied during this time?
Thank you for your time and help, and I apologize if any answers to the above questions are found in obvious places. I checked the wiki and tried to do some research online, but I couldn't come up with very concrete answers.. unless I dun goofed.
I am a stickler for lore and I absolutely hate breaking it. If it could make sense, I'm alright with bending it; however, I prefer to make characters that appeal to more lore-heavy roleplayers. Bending so the character is unique, yet plausible for the world? A-okay.
My issue is that I can't seem to find a lot of Au Ra lore! It looks like they are very rare in Eorzea and haven't spread out too much beyond Othard.
What I'd like to do is have Qo'an be Sharlayan, mostly because I play as an Astrologian and would like to roleplay that as well. Also because I like the little gizmos a lot of Sharlayan scholars have, like those neat goggles.
I'd like for her to somehow have a connection to her race as well – perhaps knowing how to read bones and / or blood spatters and learning that when young - but I'm not too sure if that could work with a 30 year old character. Her mother / father could have passed down some writings, but I seem to recall Xaela not having a writing system.
I was thinking of potentially having Qo'an's mother give birth as a refugee in Sharlayan or having her abandoned as a babe / young child due to a physical disability to a Sharlayan cartographer in Othard (if that is an occupation for them). The latter could be interesting to roleplay, as I enjoy characters with physical flaws.
So here are my main questions..
- Are Sharlayan Au Ra possible lore-wise? I can't find any hard evidence that says 'no', but I'd like to stick with popular opinion.
- If I do this, what is an appropriate age? I am trying to keep her around late 20s, early 30s.
- I am a little confused on the time line for the Sharlayan migration. They began as an island nation, migrated to Eorzea, and then withdrew back to their island at the Garlean threat after the fall of Ala Mhigo? Was the island nation still occupied during this time?
Thank you for your time and help, and I apologize if any answers to the above questions are found in obvious places. I checked the wiki and tried to do some research online, but I couldn't come up with very concrete answers.. unless I dun goofed.
