Hello, and welcome. Â :>
I can understand your sentiments about wanting to know someone a little bit before jumping over. Â Not all the time, but some of the time, people like little whispers or in game 'pokes' before RP, and that sort of thing also occasionally makes me nervous (even though I am also one of those people who likes a poke!).
But anyway, there are a bunch of neat RP groups / players around, so you should be able to find something over here. Â :>
I can't help but be curious, do you have any ideas for your character yet, or what they're like? Â That often time sparks some potential connections with people who might make some interesting RP with a like personality.
And, as for the naming conventions, here is that link:  http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/forums/491-Lore (As was mentioned in the post above me!  I'm just slow, it seems.)
Basically, the conventions are in the lore as how the different races tend to be named. Â It's followed in the game with the NPCs and so forth, so people wishing to create a believable character within the world often follow the conventions for their appropriate race, or, at times, deviate if their character story is appropriate (such as being raised by a different race, for example). Â Some of the parameters are neat (such as denoting first or second sons within a name, denoting clan, or being similar to a particular real-world language such as French or German) Â but are also kind of hard to 'wing it' and manage to get it right without looking first at what the norms are. Â There are also some player-made lore friendly name generators out there too! Â (Though I personally always like to come up with names myself.)
I can understand your sentiments about wanting to know someone a little bit before jumping over. Â Not all the time, but some of the time, people like little whispers or in game 'pokes' before RP, and that sort of thing also occasionally makes me nervous (even though I am also one of those people who likes a poke!).
But anyway, there are a bunch of neat RP groups / players around, so you should be able to find something over here. Â :>
I can't help but be curious, do you have any ideas for your character yet, or what they're like? Â That often time sparks some potential connections with people who might make some interesting RP with a like personality.
And, as for the naming conventions, here is that link:  http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/forums/491-Lore (As was mentioned in the post above me!  I'm just slow, it seems.)
Basically, the conventions are in the lore as how the different races tend to be named. Â It's followed in the game with the NPCs and so forth, so people wishing to create a believable character within the world often follow the conventions for their appropriate race, or, at times, deviate if their character story is appropriate (such as being raised by a different race, for example). Â Some of the parameters are neat (such as denoting first or second sons within a name, denoting clan, or being similar to a particular real-world language such as French or German) Â but are also kind of hard to 'wing it' and manage to get it right without looking first at what the norms are. Â There are also some player-made lore friendly name generators out there too! Â (Though I personally always like to come up with names myself.)
