I'm gonna be the party pooper here and fill in some blanks with the lore that you might not have reached yet. I know you said you didn't care about DRK questline spoilers so I'll go ahead and give you that info.
1) Au Ra are not dragons, they just kinda look like them to the point that Ishgard was pretty racist about it for a while; whether or not they still are isn't really elaborated upon but different players have different opinions on that. Xaela tribes are most easily paralleled with Mongolian nomads (tribe-by-tribe specifics should be on the wiki), and while you don't have to use this to make your character's background, most Au Ra in general are only very recent arrivals in Eorzea. The events that brought Yugiri's initial boatload took place less than one year ago.
2) The specific clan/job combination of Xaela Dark Knight mirrors the quest giver/teacher for the 50-60 DRK quests, a guy named Sidurgu. In his background, we learn that his family made its way to Ishgard after the initial Garlean occupation of Doma (unlike Yugiri's group, which only came after the razing of Doma due to their failed rebellion), but due to looking like dragons, the Ishgardians killed them indiscriminately. He was saved at the last second and lives as a fugitive within Ishgard until the end of the DRK questline. If you wanted to have another Xaela Dark Knight, you can use this as possible back story/motivation for your character, though I'd advise against saying she was in the same group.
Unrelated to the lore, reading your posts gives me the impression that you're working with "tropes" and stitching them together into a character. Be careful that you don't let yourself get boxed in, tropes are essentially other peoples' ideas in the end. It's good to pinpoint what you like in a character and have an idea of how you want to play them, but don't fall into the trap of treating tropes as a checklist for character creation.
Edit:
This is normal. Balmung is the most populated server and is full 99.9% of the time. Some people are lucky enough to sneak into the server in the few seconds immediately before or after a maintenance, but the only certain way to get on is to use a paid transfer ($18, flat rate for up to 8 characters) from another server.
1) Au Ra are not dragons, they just kinda look like them to the point that Ishgard was pretty racist about it for a while; whether or not they still are isn't really elaborated upon but different players have different opinions on that. Xaela tribes are most easily paralleled with Mongolian nomads (tribe-by-tribe specifics should be on the wiki), and while you don't have to use this to make your character's background, most Au Ra in general are only very recent arrivals in Eorzea. The events that brought Yugiri's initial boatload took place less than one year ago.
2) The specific clan/job combination of Xaela Dark Knight mirrors the quest giver/teacher for the 50-60 DRK quests, a guy named Sidurgu. In his background, we learn that his family made its way to Ishgard after the initial Garlean occupation of Doma (unlike Yugiri's group, which only came after the razing of Doma due to their failed rebellion), but due to looking like dragons, the Ishgardians killed them indiscriminately. He was saved at the last second and lives as a fugitive within Ishgard until the end of the DRK questline. If you wanted to have another Xaela Dark Knight, you can use this as possible back story/motivation for your character, though I'd advise against saying she was in the same group.
Unrelated to the lore, reading your posts gives me the impression that you're working with "tropes" and stitching them together into a character. Be careful that you don't let yourself get boxed in, tropes are essentially other peoples' ideas in the end. It's good to pinpoint what you like in a character and have an idea of how you want to play them, but don't fall into the trap of treating tropes as a checklist for character creation.
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(04-22-2016, 07:48 PM)AltoSanctus122 Wrote: So, I have her appearance and everything ready... set her up nicely for the most part.
Aaaaand Balmung is full (NA Legacy Balmung that is. There's no other Balmung, right?)
Is that normal for the server?
This is normal. Balmung is the most populated server and is full 99.9% of the time. Some people are lucky enough to sneak into the server in the few seconds immediately before or after a maintenance, but the only certain way to get on is to use a paid transfer ($18, flat rate for up to 8 characters) from another server.
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