I am trying to put together a history for my Gilgamesh character, Crimmera "Crim" Vahn. In MMOs I don't like to be too fussy with my characters' backgrounds, I try to focus on the present and future, and leave the past as a frame for who they are.Â
The chief issue I am having is with my lack of lore. I have been doing some reading of online Wikis and such, but unlike other MMOs such as LotRO, WoW, etc... there is simply not a huge, detailed body of lore. (That I am aware of.) I actually consider this a good thing, leaves more room to improvise, however, being new to FFXIV I don't want to write a character that'll be... illogical - let's go with that word.
Crim is young, I am going to say 21, and is a Highlander. I like to keep things simple, so I am going to say her family is from Ala Mhigo. After reading the Wikis, I understand the Garleans conquered Ala Mhigo 15 years prior to v1.0, and ARR occurs five years after that. So she would have been 1 year old when her family had to have fled Ala Mhigo.
The gapping hole in her history occurs between that exodus to her carriage ride into Gridania. What I am thinking is her family, along with several Highlander families, settled somewhere on the edges of the Black Shroud. (I know the lore says most resettled in Ul'dah.) To add a little tragedy to her background, I am thinking perhaps her family's new home was sacked and razed by Ixal, which would be the catalyst for her going to Gridania.
The chief issue I am having is with my lack of lore. I have been doing some reading of online Wikis and such, but unlike other MMOs such as LotRO, WoW, etc... there is simply not a huge, detailed body of lore. (That I am aware of.) I actually consider this a good thing, leaves more room to improvise, however, being new to FFXIV I don't want to write a character that'll be... illogical - let's go with that word.
Crim is young, I am going to say 21, and is a Highlander. I like to keep things simple, so I am going to say her family is from Ala Mhigo. After reading the Wikis, I understand the Garleans conquered Ala Mhigo 15 years prior to v1.0, and ARR occurs five years after that. So she would have been 1 year old when her family had to have fled Ala Mhigo.
The gapping hole in her history occurs between that exodus to her carriage ride into Gridania. What I am thinking is her family, along with several Highlander families, settled somewhere on the edges of the Black Shroud. (I know the lore says most resettled in Ul'dah.) To add a little tragedy to her background, I am thinking perhaps her family's new home was sacked and razed by Ixal, which would be the catalyst for her going to Gridania.
