(08-22-2017, 04:09 PM)Kilieit Wrote: I think this kind of elaborations is fairly standard! I don't think there's a problem with it, as long as you consider two things:
1) What will you do if someone else has also elaborated, but they've made different extrapolations than the ones you made?
2) What will you do if more official lore comes out that poses your ideas as contrary to the official ones? (A lot of xaela RPers - especially Dotharl - had this problem when Stormblood released, because the elaborations that the in-game quests made weren't immediately intuitive from the previously provided elevator pitches.)
Most people resolve this fairly simply by just having their character be from a different family unit in the tribe, or from a different camp, that had their own extra quirks without the difference being so significant as to have caused a formal tribe split. If that works for you, then you're A-OK.
Thanks for your input! Those were definitely my main concerns. Obviously there will be other Sagahl out there, but so far I haven't even seen one in passing, and it looks like Cota might be the only one on the Xaela discord channel I'm in (atm). Admittedly, if I had planned him out before naming him, Sagahl is probably the last tribe I would've gone for, but I'm actually happy with it now. It's not as unique and thrilling as many of the others, but now I'm glad because it poses interesting challenges for development and interaction. I had considered the different camp idea but I wasn't sure how that worked, since I've barely started on Stormblood and it'll probably be a while before I get that far.
