First let me say that while I have started Stormblood, I've barely played any of it yet and probably won't for a while.
Okay so I've been working on a new character. He's a Xaela, and at first I didn't even plan to use him for RP, I was just messing around in the character creator and decided I wanted to make a new character to learn how to tank, but then I got attached to him and he developed a backstory before I knew it. Since no planning went into him beforehand, I'd used the name generator and went with the first name that struck my fancy--Cota Sagahl.Â
While creating his backstory I stuck to the lore of the Sagahl, but the only thing I know (that any of us know, to the best of my knowledge?) is that they're basically vegetarian, they don't eat meat or use animals as beasts of burden. Therefore anything else concerning his past isn't lore-based because it's not in the lore. I've looked at all the lore posts concerning Xaela and I've seen nothing more concrete. So my question is, if I were to go into greater detail on the Sagahl tribe--like if I were to say they only use one type of weapon because they've no need for anything else due to their diet, or that they're excellent botanists and weavers, or that in order to defend themselves against aggressive beasts they use a sleeping powder to knock them out instead of kill them--would that be overstepping lore boundaries? Would it also be overstepping boundaries to assume they're on the more peaceful side because of their beliefs in beasts equaling men? If I've overdone it then I'll create a new/off-shoot clan, but I'd rather avoid the $10 name change. (Which I know isn't exactly necessary but I'm too detail-oriented not to.)
Okay so I've been working on a new character. He's a Xaela, and at first I didn't even plan to use him for RP, I was just messing around in the character creator and decided I wanted to make a new character to learn how to tank, but then I got attached to him and he developed a backstory before I knew it. Since no planning went into him beforehand, I'd used the name generator and went with the first name that struck my fancy--Cota Sagahl.Â
While creating his backstory I stuck to the lore of the Sagahl, but the only thing I know (that any of us know, to the best of my knowledge?) is that they're basically vegetarian, they don't eat meat or use animals as beasts of burden. Therefore anything else concerning his past isn't lore-based because it's not in the lore. I've looked at all the lore posts concerning Xaela and I've seen nothing more concrete. So my question is, if I were to go into greater detail on the Sagahl tribe--like if I were to say they only use one type of weapon because they've no need for anything else due to their diet, or that they're excellent botanists and weavers, or that in order to defend themselves against aggressive beasts they use a sleeping powder to knock them out instead of kill them--would that be overstepping lore boundaries? Would it also be overstepping boundaries to assume they're on the more peaceful side because of their beliefs in beasts equaling men? If I've overdone it then I'll create a new/off-shoot clan, but I'd rather avoid the $10 name change. (Which I know isn't exactly necessary but I'm too detail-oriented not to.)
