I've seen some people get around this by having their character be adopted by another race (keeping their first name and tribal letter, but taking their adoptive family's surname for greater variety.) I've also seen some say that their character dislikes tribes or left theirs for whatever reason, and thus they drop the tribal letter or come up with a completely new pseudonym for city life. I imagine the same thing would work for Keepers who want to have a more individualized name not tied to their mothers.
My character has been around for many years in my own writings and some other games under this name or another, and I really wanted to play him as a Keeper due to the lunar aspect and facial features/native-esque appearance, but calling him by anything else other than his name wouldn't be right for me.
The rationalization I came up with is that his father was friends with and deeply respected many of the Roegadyn he met in his travels, and so he wished to pass down a bit of their individualistic culture to his son. Since Kevaraan and his family traveled through city-states for most of their life and might have been seen as outliers, this works well enough (and "Kevaraan has that Nordic/Scandinavian feel soundwise, even though it doesn't directly translate into the Sea Wolf language. It has become incorporated into his RP a bit--he's still very much a Miqo'te, but speaks like a formal, educated city-dweller, and I've had a few characters who met him over a linkshell be surprised at his race in person.
From what I've heard, as long as you have a suitable, plausible explanation as to why you're using a non-tribal name, you should be fine. Maybe your character wants to distance himself from or was exiled from his tribe for whatever reason, and disdains their customs. Maybe he was taken in by a kindly Hyur ignorant of Miqo'te customs. Perhaps he has a tribal name, but wants a more Hyuran equivalent because he's tired of people mispronouncing it.
My character has been around for many years in my own writings and some other games under this name or another, and I really wanted to play him as a Keeper due to the lunar aspect and facial features/native-esque appearance, but calling him by anything else other than his name wouldn't be right for me.
The rationalization I came up with is that his father was friends with and deeply respected many of the Roegadyn he met in his travels, and so he wished to pass down a bit of their individualistic culture to his son. Since Kevaraan and his family traveled through city-states for most of their life and might have been seen as outliers, this works well enough (and "Kevaraan has that Nordic/Scandinavian feel soundwise, even though it doesn't directly translate into the Sea Wolf language. It has become incorporated into his RP a bit--he's still very much a Miqo'te, but speaks like a formal, educated city-dweller, and I've had a few characters who met him over a linkshell be surprised at his race in person.
From what I've heard, as long as you have a suitable, plausible explanation as to why you're using a non-tribal name, you should be fine. Maybe your character wants to distance himself from or was exiled from his tribe for whatever reason, and disdains their customs. Maybe he was taken in by a kindly Hyur ignorant of Miqo'te customs. Perhaps he has a tribal name, but wants a more Hyuran equivalent because he's tired of people mispronouncing it.
