In order:
- Probably fine. Chances are, 99% of the players you meet are going to have about as good a grasp on 15th century Mongolian as you do. I think I've met one person, ever, who claimed any sort of further knowledge. Basically, if the resources aren't online for you to read, they probably aren't for anyone else either - and something that looks right to you is going to look right to that 99% of players, too. I used Lingua Mongolia for all my xaela name needs. Which is cheating a bit - what can you do? No one's mentioned anything wrong yet, so at the very least, it can't be glaringly obvious.
As much as I hate to advocate doing something you know could be incorrect... honestly, on this topic, we don't have much choice. I think it was a bit silly of the devs to decide on a naming convention that relies on resources that aren't freely available... but I digress.
- Honestly, there are no rules. Aghurlal's custom tribe names (he was born into one, and now goes by another) are just amalgams of two different words - "isü" (blackened by soot) "siregen" (throne)"; "qar-a" (black) "kimusun" (talon). Think about what your tribe's founding members would've wanted in a name (something with meaning? Just a random word that sounds good?) and go from there. I've also never had flak over his weird surname - and more often than not he just totally neglects to give a surname ICly, which has also raised surprisingly few eyebrows.
- We don't know yet, and...
- ...not yet. Everything we know about xaela/au ra in general is in the character creation screen, naming convention thread, and this quote from Las Vegas FanFest 2016:
Watch this space, though. In Stormblood we are physically going to the Azim Steppe, the home of the xaela tribes. Chances are we'll get a whole bunch of new info then. I actually vague-ified a lot of previously refined story details for my other (standard-tribe) xaela character, because as soon as I learned we were going to the Steppe, I knew a lot of the stuff I had previously made up as "ehh they'll never cover this may as well do whatever" could potentially be overriden by official lore come Stormblood. Maybe I'll restore it back to how it was because it turns out my ideas coincided with the dev team's; maybe I'll have to do some thinking about how to keep the same "spirit" with different facts. Either way, that's what I'm looking forward to at the moment.
TL;DR: We don't have a whole lot of resources available right now, but my recommendation is to keep things open and flexible at least until Stormblood launches. So like... do it! And be prepared to adopt/adapt to the new stuff that's coming out next month.
- Probably fine. Chances are, 99% of the players you meet are going to have about as good a grasp on 15th century Mongolian as you do. I think I've met one person, ever, who claimed any sort of further knowledge. Basically, if the resources aren't online for you to read, they probably aren't for anyone else either - and something that looks right to you is going to look right to that 99% of players, too. I used Lingua Mongolia for all my xaela name needs. Which is cheating a bit - what can you do? No one's mentioned anything wrong yet, so at the very least, it can't be glaringly obvious.
As much as I hate to advocate doing something you know could be incorrect... honestly, on this topic, we don't have much choice. I think it was a bit silly of the devs to decide on a naming convention that relies on resources that aren't freely available... but I digress.
- Honestly, there are no rules. Aghurlal's custom tribe names (he was born into one, and now goes by another) are just amalgams of two different words - "isü" (blackened by soot) "siregen" (throne)"; "qar-a" (black) "kimusun" (talon). Think about what your tribe's founding members would've wanted in a name (something with meaning? Just a random word that sounds good?) and go from there. I've also never had flak over his weird surname - and more often than not he just totally neglects to give a surname ICly, which has also raised surprisingly few eyebrows.
- We don't know yet, and...
- ...not yet. Everything we know about xaela/au ra in general is in the character creation screen, naming convention thread, and this quote from Las Vegas FanFest 2016:
Las Vegas FanFest 2016 Lore Panel Q+A Section Wrote:Q: Tell us about Au Ra a little more! How likely is it that their horns and tails are damaged/removed? Do they feel sensation against them, or are they a solid material? Should said tails or horns be damaged, do they grow back or are they lost forever? Just how good is Auri hearing? I'm assuming that the horns are hollow.(...there wasn't more in the lore book. The only thing there that isn't on the character creation screen was calling the steppes they live in more specifically the Azim Steppe.)
A: More info in the lore book, but also: it's hard for a tail or horn to be removed. They don't shed. They grow continuously until they reach a certain size then stop. They don't grow super long. If they're damaged, in a fall or in battle, they will slowly regrow until they reach the maximum size again. The horns themselves are hollow and the vibration of sound inside them aids their hearing. Is their hearing better than a lalafell who are supposed to have the best hearing? No their hearing is about as good as a hyur, just in a different way / hear it / process it differently. More in the lore book!
Watch this space, though. In Stormblood we are physically going to the Azim Steppe, the home of the xaela tribes. Chances are we'll get a whole bunch of new info then. I actually vague-ified a lot of previously refined story details for my other (standard-tribe) xaela character, because as soon as I learned we were going to the Steppe, I knew a lot of the stuff I had previously made up as "ehh they'll never cover this may as well do whatever" could potentially be overriden by official lore come Stormblood. Maybe I'll restore it back to how it was because it turns out my ideas coincided with the dev team's; maybe I'll have to do some thinking about how to keep the same "spirit" with different facts. Either way, that's what I'm looking forward to at the moment.
TL;DR: We don't have a whole lot of resources available right now, but my recommendation is to keep things open and flexible at least until Stormblood launches. So like... do it! And be prepared to adopt/adapt to the new stuff that's coming out next month.
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