Going to some points earlier in the thread.Â
We have all but four or five sentences on the basis of Auri lore. That's. Nothing. It's more than we had, but it's still very little. It's swiss cheese, and frankly it pisses me off when lore leads at any level give me swiss cheese. But that is a different discussion for a different time. Beyond what we do know now, I think we have little nothing to go on past that. So it's up to our own imaginations to plug up the holes in the swiss cheese. And I'm okay with that. I don't feel shackled by those itty bitty pieces of lore. I feel overwhelmed by possibilities, actually. If I find out more during gameplay, or more is released, I'm okay with editing my own concept. It's not precious. Things change.Â
I am in no way bothered if everyone has the same reason for leaving Othard, or Coming To Eorzea! There are always reasons for mass exodus, and what anyone does after that is up to them. It could be a moment of bonding for refugee-types. Exploration of a new world. Stranger in a strange land. Maybe the family has been in Eorzea for two, or six generations. Some nefarious guy escapes the Garleans in the chaos of coming over. A tribal Xaela gets captured by the Garleans as a child, or during a hunt, or during a fight for your rights, and then escapes later during another raid, or maybe they're raised up as a Garlean. A Raen decides she doesn't like her village, the world is too big for that, etc.Â
If people need ideas, my suggestion is to go watch or read or look at sources you may or may not usually look at. I get a lot of my ideas and tropes from watching historical kdramas. Queen Seondeok, Chuno, Empress Ki, Warrior Baek Dong Soo, Shine or Go Crazy, Tree with Deep Roots, Jumong, Kingdom of the Wind, The War of Arrows, The Pirates, The King's Face, The Secret Door, Dong Yi, Yi San, Dae Jang Geum, The Emperor of the Sea, The Horse Doctor, Ryomaden (Japanese drama, and possibly hugely relevant.) Shit, go watch The Last of the Mohicans, Marco Polo, even.
We have all but four or five sentences on the basis of Auri lore. That's. Nothing. It's more than we had, but it's still very little. It's swiss cheese, and frankly it pisses me off when lore leads at any level give me swiss cheese. But that is a different discussion for a different time. Beyond what we do know now, I think we have little nothing to go on past that. So it's up to our own imaginations to plug up the holes in the swiss cheese. And I'm okay with that. I don't feel shackled by those itty bitty pieces of lore. I feel overwhelmed by possibilities, actually. If I find out more during gameplay, or more is released, I'm okay with editing my own concept. It's not precious. Things change.Â
I am in no way bothered if everyone has the same reason for leaving Othard, or Coming To Eorzea! There are always reasons for mass exodus, and what anyone does after that is up to them. It could be a moment of bonding for refugee-types. Exploration of a new world. Stranger in a strange land. Maybe the family has been in Eorzea for two, or six generations. Some nefarious guy escapes the Garleans in the chaos of coming over. A tribal Xaela gets captured by the Garleans as a child, or during a hunt, or during a fight for your rights, and then escapes later during another raid, or maybe they're raised up as a Garlean. A Raen decides she doesn't like her village, the world is too big for that, etc.Â
If people need ideas, my suggestion is to go watch or read or look at sources you may or may not usually look at. I get a lot of my ideas and tropes from watching historical kdramas. Queen Seondeok, Chuno, Empress Ki, Warrior Baek Dong Soo, Shine or Go Crazy, Tree with Deep Roots, Jumong, Kingdom of the Wind, The War of Arrows, The Pirates, The King's Face, The Secret Door, Dong Yi, Yi San, Dae Jang Geum, The Emperor of the Sea, The Horse Doctor, Ryomaden (Japanese drama, and possibly hugely relevant.) Shit, go watch The Last of the Mohicans, Marco Polo, even.
