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RE: Who are you? - SuperiorSpider - 08-03-2013
Only question now..
He says, "So, when creating a character, you are free to take the surname of an existing family, and inherit their history, or choose a yet-to-be-released surname, and build a new history."
How do we learn the history of the surname ;P
Or is it just they crossed the ice to Eorzea, blah blah,come up with my own?
RE: Who are you? - Celsius - 08-03-2013
My character's name is (technically) W'shizu Nelhah. She is a mixed tribe (1/2 Keeper, 1/2 Seeker) so the name keeps her father's clan abbreviation and took her mother's surname. However, her parents died out at sea while she was young and she was taken care of by a Midlander named Ayana. After the Cataclysm, she shortened her name to Shizu, and took Ayana as a last name, therefore Shizu Ayana is what she goes by.
RE: Who are you? - FreelanceWizard - 08-03-2013
(08-03-2013, 03:48 PM)SuperiorSpider Wrote: Only question now..
He says, "So, when creating a character, you are free to take the surname of an existing family, and inherit their history, or choose a yet-to-be-released surname, and build a new history."
How do we learn the history of the surname ;P
Or is it just they crossed the ice to Eorzea, blah blah,come up with my own?
I would guess he's referring to any history that gets revealed in game. For instance, if you took the surname Jinjhal, you might run into NPCs who have it who say their family came through Ala Mhigo, and perhaps some NPCs who don't like them for that reason. (This is all hypothetical; I haven't seen any of that at all in game.
) So, at that point, you'd have to work that into your background somewhere, or explain why it isn't part of your background -- for example, maybe your great-great-grandmother left the bulk of the family to hook up with some other Keeper family but kept her name because she was a great huntress, and so you're an offshoot of the family tree.Alternatively, he could be referencing the fact that astute players might ask you about your relationship to the NPCs with that surname, and you'd need to have some explanation for that.
Regardless, I doubt it's likely either of those eventualities will come up, since the devs have a lot more lore to deal with than Keeper families.
So, whether you go with a name from that list or one of your own construction, I think you'll be good to go.