(10-06-2015, 02:23 PM)niflh Wrote: I wanted to make a male Miqo'te sun seeker who was raised in Doma; orphaned.
Is there lore appropriate naming conventions for this?
Yes, actually! Meet Yamimi Farwalker, a plainsfolk merchant and traveler hailing from the Far East. Her first name reflects Plainsfolk Naming Conventions while her last name reflects Doman Naming Conventions and is reminiscent of other Doman NPCs of note, such as Yugiri Mistwalker or Karasu Redbeak.
(10-06-2015, 02:23 PM)niflh Wrote: Would it make sense for this character not to use a tribe name/letter distinction? Should I use Au ra naming conventions for the last name but keep a Miqo'te first?(minus tribe)? [This is so far what I'm planning].
Yes, and yes.
Miqo'te Naming Conventions Wrote:The names of these tribes contained many sounds which were difficult to represent with the existing Eorzean alphabet; but the fact that there were the same exact number of tribes as letters in the Eorzean alphabet was taken as a sign that they were destined to make the new realm their home, and so assigned each tribe with a letter/sound that was closest to its name. Over time, this resulted in the changing of the pronunciation to more closely resemble the pronunciation of the Eorzean letter than that of the original word. The tribe names are originally based on traditional beastkin, scalekin, or cloudkin totems, which are said to protect the tribe.
So the alphabetical, tribal suffix is an Eorzean adaptation. So it is unlikely that a Miqo'te whose family hails from the Far East would have adopted these tribal letters. Alternatively! Tribal letters consistent with characters from the Othardian or Doman alphabets may have been adopted by Miqo'te migrating from Meracydia to the Far East 3,000 years ago. So that is another possibility.
If you wanted to have a tribal designation, the possibility that your character's family/tribe came originally from Eorzea and settled in the Far East some time in the past would be an acceptable thing as well. Limsa Lominsa has traded with the Far East for hundreds of years, it's likely Miqo'te are no foreigners to their shores. There's even a Miqo'te NPC who deals in Far Eastern goods named S'gnayak. Whether she's Far Eastern herself or not is unknown.
S'gnayak Wrote:Greetings, my lady. I bring exotic goods from lands far to the east.
Hope this helps! ^^ Lemme know if you have more lore questions! If you have more racial lore I'd recommend checking out this background compilation post. While there's not too much on abnormal conventions, it should help piece together which bits of your character you'd like to adopt and which you think would not make sense for your setting.
