I'm in a similar boat as a few people around here it seems.
At launch I rolled, like probably a million other people, a Miqo'te. Because catgirls are cute and I wanted to play something adorable after spending years playing a Tauren or Worgen on WoW.
Of course after a month or so I realized that, even though my Limsan accented Miqo'te is actually rather plausible, I just couldn't be part of the millions of miqo'te.. So I used my free fantasia and turned into an Elezen.
Problem was I still loved RPing as an axe swinging sailor and decided that I'd just stick with it. So now we have an improperly named Elezen from a city that has none.
So began my long journey of justifying it through extensive background and a bit of handwaving. Truthfully I don't think an Elezen kid that got adopted by a captain and his crew is nearly as bad as some things, like a miqo'te/Roegadyn Dragoon for example, but still.. It's far from correct.
Would I do things differently if I knew lore from the start? Probably. Do I regret being a special snowflake in that I'm a Limsan accented Elezen who is a warrior? Not really. I've never really had anyone have any beef with it, although I'm sure I've been the subject of a few 'ugh, this guy' style PMs among some groups.
So at the end of the day I think RPers that roleplay iregular race/nationalities because they're RPing a favored race+class combo and the class is tied heavily to a city are just victims of lore ignorance. Sure they could change things to be a proper, lore appropriate monk/paladin/dragoon, but we all get attached to our characters~
At launch I rolled, like probably a million other people, a Miqo'te. Because catgirls are cute and I wanted to play something adorable after spending years playing a Tauren or Worgen on WoW.
Of course after a month or so I realized that, even though my Limsan accented Miqo'te is actually rather plausible, I just couldn't be part of the millions of miqo'te.. So I used my free fantasia and turned into an Elezen.
Problem was I still loved RPing as an axe swinging sailor and decided that I'd just stick with it. So now we have an improperly named Elezen from a city that has none.
So began my long journey of justifying it through extensive background and a bit of handwaving. Truthfully I don't think an Elezen kid that got adopted by a captain and his crew is nearly as bad as some things, like a miqo'te/Roegadyn Dragoon for example, but still.. It's far from correct.
Would I do things differently if I knew lore from the start? Probably. Do I regret being a special snowflake in that I'm a Limsan accented Elezen who is a warrior? Not really. I've never really had anyone have any beef with it, although I'm sure I've been the subject of a few 'ugh, this guy' style PMs among some groups.
So at the end of the day I think RPers that roleplay iregular race/nationalities because they're RPing a favored race+class combo and the class is tied heavily to a city are just victims of lore ignorance. Sure they could change things to be a proper, lore appropriate monk/paladin/dragoon, but we all get attached to our characters~
