(07-16-2015, 01:45 PM)Unnamed Mercenary Wrote:Â(07-16-2015, 01:41 PM)Shoshopu Wrote: How are patron deities chosen? Each month is associated with a deity, but at character creation you choose it independently of the character's nameday, so... how is that determined? Is there any lore on this at all?
As players, we're just kinda given it as an option.
Certain cities and areas around the game do have a patron diety that is worshipped. You may have seen a few already!
Ul'dah: Nald'Thal
Gridania: Nophica
Ishgard: Halone
Ala Mhigo: Rhalgr
And Limsa Lominsa's is Lymlaen, if I'm not mistaken.
I just chose my birthday for Shoshopu's and that sits her in a month associated with Lymlaen- but that's just one month off from Oschon, so I was considering retconning it (from Third Astral to Third Umbral; at least they're both Wind), since Oschon is her patron deity, and the one her family worships the most, as well. Would that mean her entire family's patron deity is Oschon? Or is it determined by, like... some kind of random occurrence that happens that the family might interpret as a blessing from x deity? Just the fact they call it "patron" deity makes me want to think it's not chosen by the person whose patron the deity is, but by the deity itself, someway or another...Â
On the other hand, since she now spends most of her time in Limsa, Lymlaen doesn't seem to be a bad one to be associated with, from a flavor standpoint...
Just trying to find as much lore on it as I can before I make a decision.
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