(03-20-2015, 08:45 AM)Berrod Armstrong Wrote: My advice? Play as you like. The moment you start asking a 'community' of people to start deciding what you play is the moment you place your fun into someone else's hands.Finally someone who gets it!
You wanna play a norse goddess who has to start over as a mortal on Hydaelyn? Go for it! No, I mean it, go for it. The events prior to her banishment -- is that a word? -- are apart from the lore of the world you are going to be playing her in, so it's not really getting in the way of anything unless she's going to be prancing around declaring what she is and where she's from.Â
It's actually an interesting angle, I'm personally interested in seeing what you do with it; how you illustrate her struggles, her mental state, and how she copes, learns, grows and forms relationships in this 'new world'. The ONLY advice I'd give you on the finger-wagging side is just...don't run around screaming it out to everyone. That'll get really bad, really fast.Â
Even some the loremongers have their bit of lorebendery and lorebreakery going on, so in the end the only person in a proper position to judge, is you! In addition, so long as her origins remain under wraps and your character behaves like a denizen of Eorzea (or at least TRIES)...there's nothing different between roleplaying with her and roleplaying with some other fresh-faced, aethersick fresh-off-the-boat yahoo.
What you have done for your concept isn't something I'd do myself...I really like getting deep into the lore of a world and establishing a backstory within it. However! I wouldn't discourage you from trying that -- EVEN if it's just to learn from it. Have fun with it, yet understand that it is unusual and will require quite a bit of discretion to pull off. If you can't pull it off, it's not the end of the world; you can rewrite and try again.Â
Such is the nature of roleplaying and learning.
...and if you are a troll? Good one, lol.
Edit: My post was with regard to the backstory only, I didn't address the whitemagery.
I was not going to go running around saying I am a goddess from another planet, that is silly. The point of my character was to feel like a fresh start, because it is something new to me I have never roleplayed here so everything is new. I like to make characters I relate to I can not relate to something that I have not spent much time being around. Plus I really wanted to develop my character a lot, for  her to be blank to the world. But I am kind of baffled that a lot of the people posting on this thread are seeing it as a personal attack or something. Kind of off putting to be honest.
