E'irawen

Thank you! (both for the compliment and the information) It is not my intention to offend anyone by any means. So even if it really wasn't a slur, I've seen people get pretty upset by it. So I avoid it altogether (although, learning that it is a slur makes things confusing, at least in America. So many things use the term so freely. But I digressss) But yes as for the primary inspiration for this group it was "gypsies" in the sense of travelling dancers and fortune tellers, etc.

Noted, Flynt. I admit that's always the first term to midn when I'm trying to describe this group, but most of the RPers I meet flutter about tumblr, so I tread carefully. As for timezones and such, any timezone! It's just a general group of RPers, not any specific event. I'm sure we'll attend and perform at some in the future, though.

Not sure how to describe exactly, but myself and a few others are trying to put together a group of people who are... the best term we kept coming up with was "hippies" because the "G word" is apparently a slur, I've learned. Anyway. The group, while composed of several performers (music, dance, etc.) also offers services in the way of tarot readings, crystal and herbal healings, things like this (i almost want to describe it as being a witch, but not in the sense of a conjurer or black mage. not to say noone can have those abilities, though). There is no super special story arc for them right now, but moreso just a group of people coming together over similar interests. It will be linkshell based, not FC, too. The moral compass is pretty moot, too, so far. There are a couple thief-y little rebels involved but the general motto is to always be ready to accept the consequences of your actions. The group will be called Animagus (as in a combination of the terms/definitions of Animism/Anima and Magi/Magus and nothing in relation to harry potter, noone here is a shapeshifter.) Just wanted to post and see if anyone was interested in joining us. The group itself primarily lives off the land and will likely show up to festivals and events in the future to offer their services. They generally move in a caravan, tents, whathaveyou, but if you join the group you are not obligated by any means to stay with them 100% of the time. Things are still being put together and the like. Some things, such as tarot readings, are still being kept kind of vague until we see how the arcana is represented in Eorzea. etc.

Just wanted to let anyone know: The directory will post events every Tuesday for events up until the following Tuesday. Any RP Connection/Dungeon Run Recruitment/FC Recruitment/etc. will be posted daily as submitted. I have a submit page now too, so feel free to submit your event directly. It doesn't have to be a huge event either! No discrimination.

I like the idea. It's one I wanted to dabble with myself with the announcement of Astrologian. My only concern so far (and what has prevented me from doing much at all) is how Eorzea treats tarot, and if it's anything like how we do it or not. But! Either way. I like this concept

I know this might be slightly redundant to post on the RPC, but I wanted to post it here just in case anyway! I recently remade and re-opened my tumblr blog, Balmung Roleplayers, which is a tumblr dedicated to posting and announcing RP events (or even just tower climbs, dungeon runs, etc.) as well as reblogging and sharing posts where people are looking for RP connections (which, if you don't have a tumblr, message me here if you see someone you want to meet who does. I will happily send them over here!). I know not everyone here has a tumblr or even wants one, and that some events are already posted on the calender here. But like I said! Just in case anyone wants to follow with their tumblr (or even without a tumblr!) If you don't have a tumblr but want to submit your event, too, please don't hestitate in sending me a PM here. http://balmungroleplayers.tumblr.com/

Thank you. I was never really going to change the story I came up with. I know that it won't even be effected by whatever Au Ri lore comes out either, to be honest (she was raised in Limsa still, all this stuff) and if her daddy was an Ishgardian who married someone who was not Isghardian, that's still bad from what I understand, regardless of race. I really just wanted help brainstorming as to why she would have been a Miqo'te until this point, without it being one of the "cheap" Fantasia reasons. I really wanted a story behind it. Like even with glamouring, even if it was hard to come by or you could only get it from the antagonists, I don't think that would have mattered to him, he still might seek that kind of person out (but I realize the other issues with this idea that were discussed earlier). I'm really grateful that people have pointed out lore points that I wasn't aware of yet, because I really love to learn regardless of the topic or world. But yeah that was just my main thing. I wanted a good story and help coming up with that story as to why she'd be a miqo'te now at the moment if she was born an Au Ra. Since the racism seems to be a big thing against this race, it seemed like a good plot device to use. But that's about as far as I got. EDIT: Just saw your post Rakka. I don't have any desire or intent of retiring Ophelia because I want to keep her personality, habits, traits, teahouse, everything. And I really feel like it's a cheap move to just retire her and then create another character who's the exact same thing just for the sake of a game update. I wanted to incorporate the change into Ophelia and her story directly somehow (see above).

In all honesty I was kind of freaking out and stressing during the course of this thread, so I really appreciate those of you who give that sentiment. I've met a lot of people who are very firm on not letting people just kind of enjoy their hobby. Also that's one of my favorite south park episodes/quotes so that also helped.

The teahouse is something Ophelia made because she loves to help and take care of others. She made the tea-tavern specifically to have high quality drinks and home styled cooked foods at lower prices for weary travellers, and made sure to include an inn. (the only consistent part of her history was that she had a comfortable inheritance, most of which was spent to build the tea tavern). I don't want to give that up. I legit do not see a point in making an Ophelia clone who happens to have a teahouse just so I can be an au ra. Edit: Right, plans. It's mainly a cozy RP spot for those who used to tell me they'd never go to a more bar-like tavern. This was sort of like an 'upscale' bar..ish. Bakery..restaraunt whatever. It welcomes everyone. My plans in the future included actually RP employees as well as events/performances/etc. I honestly am still very set (apparently, despite my earlier moment of discouragement in another post) to change her. I really, really want to do it. I just wanted to do it in a way that wouldn't rustle too many jimmies and didn't seem stupid. The only main trick to it was explaining why she'd been a miqo'te all this time to begin with.

@Aya It's both. Ophelia has become very stale to RP, because to me she feels.. flat? I'm not sure the right word for it. And her history has always been lacking and frankly, nonexistant. The story I came up with was an attempt to add history to her while giving her a story to explore that's actually interesting, while hopefully (and apparently very unsuccessfully) explaining a logical transformation into an Au Ra that wasn't people going "Whoopsy potions" I want to keep Ophelia's personality, her talents and everything, and her teahouse. And it feels very cheap to me to make an Au Ra alt that is literally just Ophelia anyway, including a teahouse that I really love to have, and just get rid of the original Ophelia.

thank you for everyone's input, i think i have the answers i needed now. Not the ones i was hoping for, but I guess the ones that I needed. I admit, I feel kind of stupid at this point because with all of this, in hindsight, it seems like a stupid idea. I don't want to kill off ophelia, but i don't want to make a new Rp character (i don't care about the game unlocks or achievements, i have no issue levelling a new character). I just don't want a new RP character and for whatever reason had a strong desire to make Ophelia the au ra, but, I don't think I want to anymore.

@ Rakka: You're fine, it's all good. It's honestly why I came here asking questions, because I know glamours and Fantasia aren't very "Good" options in this instance, but at the same rate, they're kind of the only methods available? And no, she hasn't been used in just small circles is what I meant. Sorry if I wasn't clear. She's been used pretty extensively up until the last month or so at least, in open RP. Not just with friends. Besides, to retcon her entirety just feels weird to me, too. If she's been an Au Ra, which noone in society seems to think is okay, how do I possibly explain how she's been treated so well by others up until now? So no, I don't want to (nor can I) retcon her entire history to change her race. On the subject of glamour, maybe it isn't so easy to come by or do. Maybe it took a lot of string pulling or something for her father to get someone to pull this off? I suppose I used the wrong words in my last post. It might not be entirely easy to come by, but once you do have it available, it would be easy to use. Maybe that's why Yugiri doesn't have a glamour? She has no access to it. Or maybe she is still proud of her race/dignity/etc. My goal for this is to make the story I posted in my OP work, but work relatively logically and not like.. cheap/boring. I posted my questions because I'm looking for assistance in brainstorming ideas.

I'd like to state again that absolutely all of this is nothing but brainstorming. I haven't RPed any of this at all, nor brought it up to anyone before posting it here on the RPC. (That being said, also, my reply is not intended to be angry or rude, just explaining!) I do agree, I feel like a lot of people use fantasia "accidents" as a sort of cop out to race change, but I'd also like to point out that there aren't very many options available to roleplayers, lore wise, that don't already bend a lot of rules or use unestablished ideas if someone does want to change their character. On that same coin, too, I don't feel like I should be forced to play an alt in RP just because the game updates. Some examples of the above include, like I said, fantasia. But I also remember that when 2.0 was launched and a lot of new options available (female highlanders, female roes, male miqotes) that a lot of people used the story of "Well when my character was taken through the time warp, some shit went wrong and now they're this thing instead" It's never been established in lore and to some people that may have felt like a cheesy option to go with, but they're limited in their options. I think it would suck if someone has to force themselves to stay something they're not interested in anymore (and don't have fun with) just because of the peer pressure. So I think it's sort of a delicate balancing issue. So far for Au Ra, I have held a discussion about this on tumblr: Rpers have mentioned using glamours to hide their race because of the racism and stigma Eorzean society has against them, and they will reveal themselves come 3.0. I've also heard stories with something about being possessed by a dravanian/dragon soul or something. There were a lot of ideas. (thankfully nobody's popped in with "I'm Shiva's baby" so y'know that's always a plus.) Also Warren you posted like as I hit reply so: I can see your point, but I also say that maybe she has her own reasons? I dunno. Glamouring seems relatively easy for people though, given how many times it happens during the storyline and junk. So i'd imagine Au Ra or any other race would have just as easy a time. As it stands, I'm happy to get ideas from people and suggestions, but I'm not going to change the fact that I want Ophelia to be the one to be an Au Ra, and I don't think it is appropriate at this time to just retcon that she's been a Miqo'te all this time and expect people to suddenly be "oh okay." It isn't really fair to other RPers. Maybe some of the friends she's made don't like Au Ri or dragons or anything like that, which would mean their reaction to her would have been entirely different. So yeah I know some of this is a stretch, that's why I'm here.

Lmao, yes good. I've been tempted to go the "fuck you route" because the whole idea behind this was that she wouldn't have known she was an Au Ra. It'd be "safer" for her not to with all the stigma they seem to have. So her knowingly needing to glamour herself all this time would kind of kill that.

That was originally my first though, that maybe she'd been glamoured at a young age. But someone on tumblr was telling me that they were fairly impermanent and that keeping the glamour up repeatedly might be a difficult thing to do?

Thank you. I'm also willing/open to any suggestions you guys might have to make this story a little better. I'd be lying if I said I had the first clue about anything I'm doing. D: The fantasia thing I'm still iffy on (though while her Father is a good soldier, I would not put something like this in terms of being irresponsible past him), truthfully, but I honestly can't think of/don't know of any other reasons she'd have been a Miqo'te all this time and suddenly an Au Ri. I don't really want to go a typical route of "Oops I drank a thing, oh well guess I'm stuck now" (Nothing wrong with that, but I admit I like a little flair and junk.)

quietly whispers "everyone"

Well, to get straight to the point. I may or may not have finally overcome my denial and yes I really want to play an Au ra. However I didn't want to just make an alt, y'know? I don't want to make another character. I have two as it is and I juggle them okay, but a third would probably be impossible. So I'm changing up some not-so-established-in-RP things for one of them (which had a lot of holes anyway) and had some questions. So that aside here are my questions (some of which were actually answered via tumblrs but I will still put them out there in the event you have additional information). 1.) The "likelihood" of Hyur as an Ishgardian? (I was informed that there are hyur that are born in Ishgard and that they are in good standing with the Elezen there, that some even hold positions of power and all are generally very well respected.) I ask about this in regards to Midlander Hyur Male. 2.) How likely is it for him to be of relatively higher social status there, mostly due to respect and such for his actions int he field? (I never really looked into making his pedigree so I'm not sure how nobility or anything works in Ishgard.) 3.) Somewhat related to #2: I know most of the stuff out here is Dragoon related. If he does have a high respect because of his actions in battle, is it better story-wise if he was a Dragoon, or can he remain a War/Pld? 4.) Because of Ishgards hatred for Dravanian/Dragons/whatever the proper term is here, it's highly likely that if this Hyur loved and married an Au Ri that Isghard would be like aw hell no and stuff, right? (I'm aware there isn't much lore for Au Ra yet so I am treading lightly on this and not really setting any of this stuff in stone until I can hopefully get more info). 5.) The idea was that this characters mother (Who I've never RPed in the picture much as it is) was hauled off after her relationship with this Hyur was known. The fact there was offspring wasn't known, so the Father fled to Limsa with the child. (Remarrying and such early on in the child's life, leaving her with the history I've already written out on her wiki). SO, with this knowledge, I wondered if Fantasia-ing is a legit RP thing in most circles (I have seen it RPed, but mostly in smaller friend circles. But, basically, this would be a thing in all circles I RP her in so...) The idea with that was that she was Fantasia'd as a baby for her own safety. To be honest I have no explanation as to why she'd be fantasia'd into a Miqo'te and not a Hyur (her original history/story is that she is half hyur, half sunseeker) beyond "oops that didn't go totally as planned". I uh... I think I'm rambling slightly. I hope this is good for questions, please point out if anything is amiss. As I said, I'm not totally setting the Au Ri related stuff in stone till I have a little more info, but I've been told I'm at least on the right track (though I can't imagine interbreeding with an Au ri is really 'lore shattering'). I thought this might be a good idea too since I'm not familiar with a lot of things in the northern area of Eorzea or it's lore. So if this character ends up tracing her roots and somehow breaks the fantasia she's had thus far in life or whatever, that her learning experience can also double as my own.

-quietly raises hand- ;o; mainly white mage for K'aworu Demiir but if not, NIN or BLM for my alt Ophelia de Winter ;;

I shall bring the K'aworu~ *^*

I can't really add anything lore-wise that anyone hasn't already said, but I can touch on that K'aworu is a hearer and nobody has ever brought it up to me as being mary-sue in the least bit. He was born with the ability.

With the patch live now, I've actually already seen a couple of people/groups RPing a bit in open chat. I haven't really seen any griefing for it, either. However, it's really, really crowded right now, being patch day and all. I imagine it'll thin out just a bit later on.

Since it's not really an actual lore point in game, I'm gonna run with what your post has Sounssy. I really love the information. I also love the suggestion about corrupting whenever using conjury. Thank you so much for this, it's definitely opened up some windows and inspiration for K'aworu.

Gotcha! No worries. I wasn't entirely basing his little story on the BLM quests (though I do use them as leverage that my plans are possible because they happen in said quests. Some people still try to shoot this idea down, idek) But yeah, basically I just wanna make sure i'm playing him right regarding this. Sort of like... If the Elementals were to cut him off, then he'd be left to heal using his own aether, which he's using for thaumaturgy too. That sort of thing. I guess also the greenswrath bit is important to know too. Once you have it, everything in the shroud wants to beat your ass doesn't it? (My last experience was this was 1.0, not sure if it comes up in 2.0 or not)

Thank you. I've been speculating the same thing, but haven't touched heavily in actual RP for fear of like breaking the lore somewhere. He's been trying to learn thaumaturgy (with a favoring towards ice) and I know that will effect his aether as it is. So I've been trying to figure out the conjury side of things to see if it does the same, all that jazz. Thank you for replying.