sindurion

Very awesome! I hope you post one on Black Mage too!

It is pretty much this as a whole, I admit I was rather feeling blocked creatively for names and I turned to the generator for inspiration thinking I'd be one of the very few RPers terrible with coming up named within those boundaries, and well this happened!

So guys! Something odd happened today, I was walking around IC on my Keeper Miqo'te, when I came across an RPer with the exact same forename as mine for his Keeper! I know this will happen time to time but I was so taken aback, I just went OOC and walked away. But I'm curious, how on earth would this be handled ICly? And do you think there would be any sore feeling OOC for two people sharing the same forename?

Yep, this. It's a big world, and there's lots of reasons why a miqo'te's name will, or will not, match the "normal" naming conventions. You just need to make sure you have an explanation for it, as it'll probably come up in conversation. Likewise, it's good if your IC justification also carries some narrative benefits -- that is, it should do something to expound on your character and open up avenues for additional RP. Continuing on this thought, a miqo'te raised by hyur will likely be very different from other miqo'te, as they wouldn't have been exposed to their traditional tribal culture (or even the echoes of it that city-dwelling miqo'te might have). So, you should ask yourself, how does your character feel about other miqo'te? What about other hyur? Is there any "stranger in a strange land" alienation? Your concept gives you a lot of options to come up with a unique background, so you should take advantage of it. Thanks for all the replies and feedback guys! You helped a lot! And Indeed I was thinking the same thing about a Miqo'te raised by Hyur's being very different, I in fact really wanted to play on that fact, the fact he would most likely find Tribal and Traditional Miqo'te customs so odd and foreign, since a lot of my friends are playing as very tribal and traditional Miqo'te I feel this will somewhat help me feel like I'm not just playing the same thing and ought to make for some interesting interactions!

Hey there guys! So having just left WoW behind I'm getting started on FFXIV and I'm loving the lore so far, I really am, but I have a couple of problems I was hoping fellow RPers could help me out with! First off, let me just say that I love the conventional intricacy of Miqo'te lore, I do, but me, personally? I tend to be a little...OCD with my characters, I like them to be utterly perfect for me, that is to say I want to personally enjoy every aspect of them, from their looks, to their personality to their names. That said, what I love is the simple grace and striking look of the Miqo'te, what I don't love, for my own personal character is the conventional naming for either Keeper or Seeker and general tribal nature. From what I have gleamed looking over the forums a lot of people seem to have City-dwelling Miqo'te who still retain the conventional naming of the Tribal clans. My question, or rather statement is this, What I would like a lot, is a Miqo'te that has been city-raised if not born, amongst a Hyur household and with more importantly a non-tribal name, perhaps even a Hyur name. My biggest worry with just picking out a name from the air, a Hyur name that is, is that I'd hate for other RPers to get the wrong impression that I disregard lore and the like. So guys, what should I do? Bite the bullet and go conventional? Not be a Miqo'te at all?