Hello! Figured I'd post in this forum because I lurked it pretty hard and you guys seem to know what's up in FFXIV RP. I'm not new to RP, but I'm quite new to the FFXIV RP scene (I bought the game perhaps 4 days ago).
So, I didn't check naming conventions, and I took a randomly generated name I liked, that I had gotten for a Seeker of the Sun on another server and put it on my Seeker Lancer on Balmung.
Unfortunately, his last name is Nunh, and this morning I discovered what that means--basically, that he is one of the breeding stock for a Mi'qote tribe. While I have an idea for how to play it off (he defeated a nunh for reasons other than taking his place and had no desire to take the position of nunh, and as such fled, and I would almost never mention that IC--but I digress) there is another problem that's arisen: twice now, people have seen his last name and made judgments of him based on that last name. I don't really want to reroll just because of a last name, but I was wondering if these snap judgments will be common, and if in your experience they will translate into IC reactions. I would hate to have my ability to do walk-up RP hampered by a mistake I made at character creation. Sorry if perhaps this seems like too specific of a situation, but I was hoping for input from people with more experience RPing in the game.
So, I didn't check naming conventions, and I took a randomly generated name I liked, that I had gotten for a Seeker of the Sun on another server and put it on my Seeker Lancer on Balmung.
Unfortunately, his last name is Nunh, and this morning I discovered what that means--basically, that he is one of the breeding stock for a Mi'qote tribe. While I have an idea for how to play it off (he defeated a nunh for reasons other than taking his place and had no desire to take the position of nunh, and as such fled, and I would almost never mention that IC--but I digress) there is another problem that's arisen: twice now, people have seen his last name and made judgments of him based on that last name. I don't really want to reroll just because of a last name, but I was wondering if these snap judgments will be common, and if in your experience they will translate into IC reactions. I would hate to have my ability to do walk-up RP hampered by a mistake I made at character creation. Sorry if perhaps this seems like too specific of a situation, but I was hoping for input from people with more experience RPing in the game.
