Rekaigan

Hi everyone! I'm a long time player, I've finished all the MSQ content, now I'm waiting for Endwalker. As such, I've been thinking about RPing! My partner and I have recently created characters in Balmung, so I've got a couple questions: 1. What is expected of a character's backstory versus their level? Obviously, you can't say your character has done many feats of skill if they're just a level 5 THM. So is there a certain level when I should start fleshing out their backstory? For example, I level to 50 before saying something like "I'm a Sharlayan Scholar who has come to Eorzea to do field study, etc" Would it be acceptable in the community to say that at level ~10? Because there would be questions of how you got to Eorzea being a weakling, y'know? I suppose one could say they're a 'budding scholar'. 2. Fellowships & looking for RP I've never used Fellowships, and I generally don't understand how joining a group/FC works in FFXIV for RPing Is there some sort of process to this? I've heard that FCs and most groups generally have a storyline that they're creating amongst themselves, which makes it sound quite daunting to try shove your way into the fray as it were. Is there a way to lessen the abruptness of one's joining? 3. In-game lore, and having special abilities for flavour How true to the lore does one's character need to be? Am I allowed to say that my character has something similar to an NPC, for example, Y'shtola's aetheric/magical vision & my character is blind? Of course, nothing too out of the ordinary, like "My character is actually slime that eats people for powers."