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Ophelie got impregnated by Varicar Rhylas in less than a IRL week since they first met (I think it was around a month in-game). I guess I got no choice but to ship them. Fun fact: I'm not even sure if they're actually engaged. We're 100% getting a Miqo'elezen tho.

Fun fact: in the meantime Garuda is close to be summoned, too, at least in the storyline I'm doing. Now we just need someone to summon Ifrit, Titan and Leviathan.

Meh, by the time I can log in Balmung will be closed again. Besides, three days have passed since I created my character so I can just transfer it. At least I can already start RPing and I don't need to worry about reaching places where most people are. EDIT: Ok, so when I got home Balmung was still open and the transfers still closed so I decided creating it again was better. Oh well, it means I just wasted 17 LNC and 11 CRP lvls. Could've been worse.

Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou RP of Garuda towards thy unsuspecting audience, who, being naughty in Her sight, shall snuff it. She gets it. Generally, though, don't be worried about how people will accept the concept long-term. All but the most stalwart guardians of the lore are willing to accept all kinds of things so long as they're "done well," the RPer code for "in a style I prefer/by a player I like." Worry instead about how to attract partners in the first place. Um, what do you mean exactly by partners? RP partners. People with whom you will RP on a regular basis. Oh. Well, apart from timezones for organizing, it shouldn't be that much of a problem, right?

Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou RP of Garuda towards thy unsuspecting audience, who, being naughty in Her sight, shall snuff it. She gets it. Generally, though, don't be worried about how people will accept the concept long-term. All but the most stalwart guardians of the lore are willing to accept all kinds of things so long as they're "done well," the RPer code for "in a style I prefer/by a player I like." Worry instead about how to attract partners in the first place. Um, what do you mean exactly by partners?

Yeah, I guess it's inevitable she'll be seen as a villain. Probably if she tries to prove the opposite, she'll end up looking even more like a villain... Once I can finally get her on Balmung (it might take longer than expected due to personal problems), I'll see in more detail what to do with her. After all it's not all about her, so I can't already say what will happen.

Once she realizes that she can't just say things like "Garuda's blessing" and "praise Garuda" around, yeah, it becomes a secret. And apart from that, she's just an adventurer like others. She isn't tempered, so she can still make friends, love, have fun, etc... As long as she doesn't scare people away.

Well, Ophelie hasn't really seen the world besides Natalan before, apart from some missions in the North Shroud. She doesn't know that EVERYONE fears Garuda and Primals in general (she has seen someone running in fear or attacking them but she thinks they were just isolated cases), so it WILL happen, at some point, that someone will hear her praying to Garuda. But she won't have loud random outbursts, nor will she try to steal crystals to summon Garuda, UNLESS she's really desperate.

Well, I meant both ICly and OOCly. I guess I wasn't really clear. I wanted to know: 1) if (OOCly) I would be considered one of those special snowflakes and/or get avoided. 2) if (ICly) how people would consider my character, because if they considered Ophelie the same as a tempered person, I guess I wouldn't be able to just go around in the main cities.

So, I'm working on my character's, Ophelie Saintrelmaux, backstory. I had multiple ideas, but among them, only one of them was really interesting too: A character that worships a Primal. I have a question though: how would people react to a character that worships a Primal (Garuda in this case?) By worship, however, I don't mean that the character is tempered and kidnaps people to force them to being tempered or steals crystals to summon Garuda. He/she would worship Garuda just as most characters worship the Twelves and/or Hydaelin. No summonings or kidnappings involved. By the way, this is how the backstory should look like (not sure if it should be a spoiler, but oh well):

So, um, I've always been a RP fan, and although I've played some MMORPGs, FFXIV is the first one I played with an interesting enough lore. My character is a Duskwight Elezen named Ophelie Saintrelmaux... and, uh, that's it for now. Still working on her backstory. I haven't created my character on Balmung yet - I created her in a random server and I'm waiting to be able to transfer it. It costs money but IIRC it bypasses the character restrictions, so I prefer paying money than having to check so often for a free spot.