The problems I see are basically:
- how would an au ra have come to grow up in Limsa?
- why would xenophobes choose to live somewhere with lots of other races?
Here are some solutions you can pick and choose. I'm kind of leaving things a bit vague, because... we're going to Othard, the ancestral home of the au ra, next expansion. This is going to be a wonderful opportunity to learn more about the lands there, BUT that means basically anything we make up right now could potentially end up contrary to lore when it comes out. But... here's my suggestions, with that disclaimer:
- They're in Limsa for the trade connections. Alongside Radz-at-Han (which, unlike Limsa, has a policy against harbouring enemies of the Garlean Empire), it's one of a number of seaside trade hubs that lies along the southern coasts of the Three Great Continents. Rich or well-connected families might still have travelled to Limsa for business (likely para-legally...) even before Doma was razed, and possibly have settled there if they wanted their child to grow up out of the shadow of the Garlean Empire.
- They settled not in Limsa, but in Ul'dah. Although still a majority lalafell (not au ra) and potentially hostile to "beastmen", if a very rich au ra family were to have arrived as merchants or foreign dignitaries and not as refugees, they may have been able to make a life there. Yet Ul'dah also attracts refugees, including those miqo'te who have left their tribes behind, and Lady Lilira has proven there's all sorts of trouble a rich heiress can get into in Ul'dah if she slips the notice of her handlers.
- They lived not in Eorzea, but in a trade settlement in Othard that played host to au ra alongside other races, such as hyur and beastmen. Kugane looks like a likely bet, but we'll know more about it when Stormblood releases. Your character had recently heard stories about Eorzea, a land of magic where five races live in peace, in (pick any of: newspapers/fishwives' rumours/family friend's fantastical stories/etc), and impulsively decided to travel there upon being disowned.
- Their xenophobia is such that while contacting outsiders is acceptable when it's for work, fraternising with them for social reasons is strictly forbidden. As your character would have been a child, she had no reason to be speaking with outsiders, and got into trouble for doing so.
- They were forced to live there by hostile circumstances in their old home. Their xenophobia is thusly intensified by their general insecurity i.e. their desire to stick as closely to the things they'd lost as possible, so when their child rebels against their rules, it's the end of the world all over again.
- how would an au ra have come to grow up in Limsa?
- why would xenophobes choose to live somewhere with lots of other races?
Here are some solutions you can pick and choose. I'm kind of leaving things a bit vague, because... we're going to Othard, the ancestral home of the au ra, next expansion. This is going to be a wonderful opportunity to learn more about the lands there, BUT that means basically anything we make up right now could potentially end up contrary to lore when it comes out. But... here's my suggestions, with that disclaimer:
- They're in Limsa for the trade connections. Alongside Radz-at-Han (which, unlike Limsa, has a policy against harbouring enemies of the Garlean Empire), it's one of a number of seaside trade hubs that lies along the southern coasts of the Three Great Continents. Rich or well-connected families might still have travelled to Limsa for business (likely para-legally...) even before Doma was razed, and possibly have settled there if they wanted their child to grow up out of the shadow of the Garlean Empire.
- They settled not in Limsa, but in Ul'dah. Although still a majority lalafell (not au ra) and potentially hostile to "beastmen", if a very rich au ra family were to have arrived as merchants or foreign dignitaries and not as refugees, they may have been able to make a life there. Yet Ul'dah also attracts refugees, including those miqo'te who have left their tribes behind, and Lady Lilira has proven there's all sorts of trouble a rich heiress can get into in Ul'dah if she slips the notice of her handlers.
- They lived not in Eorzea, but in a trade settlement in Othard that played host to au ra alongside other races, such as hyur and beastmen. Kugane looks like a likely bet, but we'll know more about it when Stormblood releases. Your character had recently heard stories about Eorzea, a land of magic where five races live in peace, in (pick any of: newspapers/fishwives' rumours/family friend's fantastical stories/etc), and impulsively decided to travel there upon being disowned.
- Their xenophobia is such that while contacting outsiders is acceptable when it's for work, fraternising with them for social reasons is strictly forbidden. As your character would have been a child, she had no reason to be speaking with outsiders, and got into trouble for doing so.
- They were forced to live there by hostile circumstances in their old home. Their xenophobia is thusly intensified by their general insecurity i.e. their desire to stick as closely to the things they'd lost as possible, so when their child rebels against their rules, it's the end of the world all over again.
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