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Sigyn Shieldbreaker · **09-17-2013, 09:09 PM**

I would personally like to see a Miqo'te child who has been abducted from their family and sold to Hyur parents. *nods sagely* I mean, adoption is swell, I whole-heartedly support it, but after participating in another thread about Miqo'tes being abducted and turned into exotic dancers and slaves-- I start to wonder if there isn't some demand for Miqo babies. I imagine they're adorable.

Anyhow, their Hyur adoptive parents might not be terrible at all. Maybe the child doesn't even remember what happened when they were tiny babies. I just like to see things spiced up too, once in a while.

On another note, I don't mean to do this -at all- but I kind of assume when I see a traditional Miqo'te name that the person is an RPer. That's not necessarily the case, and adversely, there are plenty of Miqo characters with 'unconventional' names. I just sort of automatically assume from the name like, in wow, if I saw a troll with a name like Jin'tok, I might assume they were an RPer over someone whose name was Tusksaplenty.

Though on the other hand, I suppose I usually wait to see if the person is RPing anyway, so the name doesn't entirely matter most of the time! I'm always interested to hear the reasons behind names, OOCly and ICly, and Siobhain only recently realized that all Miqo'tes named 'Nunh' aren't related to each other. Until recently, she kept her dealing with Miqo'tes limited.

Lament · **09-18-2013, 07:22 AM**

I have a Miqo who was sired by a Tia and (according to my headcanon for her original tribe, which I am leaving up to debate just in case it conflicts with anyone's headcanon for their own tribe) this caused her parents to be cast out of the tribe, so she doesn't have a tribe consonant, or the name of her sire as her last name. Instead she has her given name. Since not having a last name would be inconvenient (she does mercenary work for a living) she took on her mother's given name as her last name. Her brother uses the father's.

There are plenty of reasons why someone could have a name that doesn't fit the lore, so I vote to get creative! Alias, nickname, picked their own name... lots of possibilities.

Otte · **09-18-2013, 08:17 AM**

I named my Miqo'te during open beta before I knew I was going to preorder the game. Then, after I'd gotten interested in the game and decided to buy it and RP in it, I read about the lore and found out about Miqo'te naming conventions. I didn't want to reroll the character though, so I got creative and created Otte's background around his unconventional name. His birth name was V'otte Tia, but because of personal reasons he has left the tribe, and threw away the tribe letter when he joined an Arcanist guild in Limsa Lominsa. He picked his own surname, thinking Dreamwalker sounds grandiose and eccentric, which in his eyes is perfect for someone practising arcane arts. But usually he only introduces himself as Otte.

So, my ramblings aside, it's all about being creative and having a reason for unconventional name, as others have said many times before me.

***Alothia*** · **09-18-2013, 09:00 AM**

I named my character back during beta of 1.0 before I knew anything of lore, and before I knew anything about RP. Once the information came out, there was no way I was going to change it at that point. It made no sense.

I also wasn't too keen on the ideas of mating in the tribes. I figured that Alothia's parents, since I had them be a monogamous married couple, wouldn't have liked it either. So they left the tribes, and in order to strike away from there, they took names that were more Hyuran and Elezen in nature. So when Alothia was born, they named her after that style as well.

*shrug* I'm sure you'll figure out some way to work it out!

Kerr · **09-18-2013, 09:55 AM**

I agree with many people here in that as long as you can stand behind your reasons, you can do whatever you want.Â

For Kerr, part of it was that I named him before lore came out, but I was lucky enough that I could twist his name and reasons to make it more conventional. When Kerr was forced to abandon his old life, he left his name behind as well. As much as he treasures the name his mother gave him (its all he has left of her), he can't reasonably got by it in some places.Â

Also, as someone else stated: it's easier for hyurans and the like to say! V'khrr can trip up some people's tongues who can roll their r's. Kerr is simpler. He took his mother's first name as his new surname, so he still has ties to his tribal name. And he still uses V'khrr with special people.

Val · **09-19-2013, 06:34 PM**

Like what most people say, so long as you have a reason I don't think it should matter. Val's Seeker name is actually W'Val, but he goes by Val for IC reasons Smile

I'm not sure if that was something you were really looking for, but it's what I do for him.

T'salmaveth · **09-19-2013, 08:02 PM**

T'sal is a 'Half'... his parents both left their respective clans for their own reasons... so he gets his first name from his Seeker papa and his 'last' name from his Keeper mama. A nod to both backgrounds and to the fact that they wanted their child to be raised outside of either in the Limsa melting pot.

Oriane Suhzu · **09-19-2013, 09:27 PM**

Just adding in my little two cents here. I have a Moonqo'te with an Elezen name! Which I think is just fine.

My Moonqo'te's original name was Rhela Viqqoh. Upon travelling away from her tribe for various scholarly reasons, however, she discovered a whole bunch of new cultures. The first being the Elezen. I decided not to have her exiled or in disagreement with the Moonqo'te in any way, but to be more.. curious about outside influences and other races. So when she basically abandoned her tribe on a "scholarly adventure", she took up an Elezen name full on since that was the first culture she truly fell in love with. She still loves the Moonqo'tes, and even misses them to the extent that she's named her chocobo after a fairly Moonqo'te-ish name.

But yes! I think if you can come up with a good reason for it IC, it can work just as well as a traditional name.

E'irawen · **09-19-2013, 10:22 PM**

I have two sunseekers, neither of which use traditional naming.

My first is a male who goes by K'aworu Rhea, which Rhea was his mother's last name. Technically, his last name should be Tia, or even Nuhn considering he and his mother lived alone and thus could be considered their own tribe. However! Due to some specific reasons in his upbringing, he adopted using his mother's surname, which is actually a Moonkeeper trait.

(He has since found closer family and now adopted their last name, Demiir, for his own reasons.)

The second one I have is Venalis Drocell. He wasn't raised among any other traditional miqote at all. He was born in Ala Mhigo!

So I think it really just depends on what you want. I know a lot of people who pick unconventional names simply because they don't like the lore ones, which is fine, and then a lot of people who make up specific stories and reasons behind it.

I know that most people I know are actually 1.0 players and none of this information had been made available until earlier this year. So the fact was that most of them just weren't going to ret-con and change their names (understandably) and muss up 2-years worth of roleplaying.

Â Either way, RP is about having fun and enjoying your character. =] Do what you want~

Aysun · **09-19-2013, 11:18 PM**

While we had zip for official lore on naming when I created Aysun, I did notice quite quickly that there were naming conventions in place in the game. I noticed that virtually all the Seekers of the Suns' names began with a letter and an apostrophe, seemed to be very odd/difficult to pronounce, and favored h's.

Soooo I made up a "traditional" name for Aysun, A'eyshn, and said that she used "Aysun" because her traditional name was difficult for people to pronounce properly. The names are pronounced the same to her, one is just the Hyurized-spelling so that it can be read easier by non-Miqo'te. xD Her surname was from her mother because her dad was POS and her mom would never want to pass on his name (surname, I assumed, not forename)! Luckily my assumptions were later alright with the lore. Smile

I got lucky. Not all of us from 1.0 were.

I fully support people utilizing the naming conventions now that they are available to us. If they don't, I like to see reasons why IC!

Skylar Steelheart · **09-19-2013, 11:20 PM**

Stand by your reasoning and do what you want. e_e;

Tirra Lirra! I imagine most people assume I'm either not an RPer, or that I'm a lalafell. My character's actual name is A'tirramei Liroh, but honestly, who wants to type out those convoluted Seeker names?

Not meeeeee.

Cute little nickname, go!

Cato · **09-19-2013, 11:22 PM**

It's usually better to strive to adhere to racial naming conventions when they're put into place for the sake of embracing what is usually one of the more distinct and notable differences between the various playable races.Â

Exceptions do exist, but there needs to be a pretty decent reason for it and even then it can often risk becoming the norm rather than the exception in some cases. Either way, it shouldn't be terribly difficult to find a name that matches the racial naming conventions and appeals to the role-player in question. That's pretty much what I sought to do with my characters and it's the best compromise for everyone.

Maqali Qulaan · **09-19-2013, 11:46 PM**

Janna uses a traditional Seeker name, despite her estrangement from her tribe. I always do my best to keep close to or within lore with character names, unless I have good reason not to. But for me, at least, I always feel 'closer' to the feel of whatever game I'm playing if my character's name 'makes sense.'

That said, if they ever offer a way to change your name, it's very likely that her name will change, pending the direction of currently roleplaying going on. She could end up K'janna (which is of course still a traditional name, and would simply represent a change of tribe), she could drop her tribal prefix altogether, or she might even wind up dropping the tribal prefix and catching a Hyur surname. All of these things would be a result of ongoing RP, though.

That said, I don't begrudge anyone their choice of names, even if it's atypical. As another poster already said, we're all here to have fun, and I think most of us can agree that it's more fun to spend time interacting with our fellow RPers than it is to try and lore police them, no? Smile

Jomoru · **09-20-2013, 02:29 AM**

(09-17-2013, 09:09 PM)Siobhain Wrote: I would personally like to see a Miqo'te child who has been abducted from their family and sold to Hyur parents. *nods sagely* I mean, adoption is swell, I whole-heartedly support it, but after participating in another thread about Miqo'tes being abducted and turned into exotic dancers and slaves-- I start to wonder if there isn't some demand for Miqo babies. I imagine they're adorable.

I am pretty sure there's an NPC in the arcanist arc who basically has this backstory

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