...has this thread been made before? Meh. Who cares! I love talking about my characters because I'm a completely shameless self-promotional jackanape!
Personally, I love wolves--at least the values and traits attributed to them...so the fact that I was able to secure my character's name has been pretty awesome for me. c:
Steel's name came about as I was doing the research around the Roegadyn. I was a Galka back in Ye Olde FF XI Dayes, so my racial choice was pretty much instantaneous. I was further delighted to learn that the Roegadyn had a fascinating language and reasoning around it. When I tied this research to the fact that I was arriving at ver. 2.0 without prior knowledge of what happened beyond what the starting cinematic showed, I began to look for Roegadyn words that bundled it all--my desire for a strong character associated with wolves and who illustrated their general newness to everything...which in my estimation meant he had to have some familial ties to Limsa Lominsa that didn't involve the events of 1.x.
Sthalwilf Haemerstymmwyn was born. ...and he was originally a male, but the idea of losing a loved one at Carteneau (and the fact that the males all looked frumpy as hell) made me use my Fantasia to turn Steel into the woman she is today.
Also, that reminds me of some fun facts--she was originally a he, and began life as a Conjurer in Gridania because I thought that being a healer would be interesting.
Personally, I love wolves--at least the values and traits attributed to them...so the fact that I was able to secure my character's name has been pretty awesome for me. c:
Steel's name came about as I was doing the research around the Roegadyn. I was a Galka back in Ye Olde FF XI Dayes, so my racial choice was pretty much instantaneous. I was further delighted to learn that the Roegadyn had a fascinating language and reasoning around it. When I tied this research to the fact that I was arriving at ver. 2.0 without prior knowledge of what happened beyond what the starting cinematic showed, I began to look for Roegadyn words that bundled it all--my desire for a strong character associated with wolves and who illustrated their general newness to everything...which in my estimation meant he had to have some familial ties to Limsa Lominsa that didn't involve the events of 1.x.
Sthalwilf Haemerstymmwyn was born. ...and he was originally a male, but the idea of losing a loved one at Carteneau (and the fact that the males all looked frumpy as hell) made me use my Fantasia to turn Steel into the woman she is today.
Also, that reminds me of some fun facts--she was originally a he, and began life as a Conjurer in Gridania because I thought that being a healer would be interesting.
