(07-25-2015, 12:27 AM)Sarnai Kha Wrote: Hello there.
- Raen naming conventions only require the first name to be Japanese. The last name is completely up to the choice of the player to make.
If you want to have a character with a powerful name, Takeda, Nobunaga and Hideki are pretty cool, though I dont know if they are being used or not.
This is actually incorrect.
To be lore compliant, the above mentioned suggestion is incorrect; using any Japanese name. The current names such as 'Miku' for example is too modern. Correct lore formatting comes from 16th-18th century Japan.
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threa...ost3039574
Quote:If Raen names are based on Japanese names, does this mean that you can name your Auri warrior after your favorite anime character? Of course! You’ve always been able to do that. Does this mean that you can name your Auri warrior after your favorite anime character and still be within the boundaries of Raen naming conventions? Prrrrrrobably not—the main reason being because the names used in a lot of modern manga/anime are just that: modern. The names that we’ve decided to go with for Final Fantasy XIV, are based off of ones that were prevalent between the 16th and 18th centuries. The Miku in Miku Hatsune? That wasn’t around in the 17th century, so (unfortunately), it isn’t name a Raen family would consider for their daughter, no matter how green/cyan her hair.
Old Japanese names had meaning, and because of that, so do Raen names. Hozan is from å®å±±, meaning “treasure mountain.†Yugiri is from 夕霧, meaning “evening mist.†So, simply taking some Japanese phonemes and combining them is not an option.
Nohni Vhaze || Khad Dotharl
