Felka

Well this tid-bit certainly helps out my own endeavors which I'd posted bout.. now just need to flush out my character more.. ~Fel

Mayhaps someone could kindly move this to the Character workshop, believe it may be more suited to there now? ~Fel

Well guess I'll have to Dub post cuz no one else has left a reply lol. So taking into regard lot'a what was said and looking into some other things I think I've come up with a potentially plausible means of Xura ending up Othardian.. while a bit.. twisted.. I could have it that her mother Ohki (OO-Key) was abducted from Shroud-ish area an sold on Orthard shores. Pre or post Garlean Empire control I'm bit unsure but I do know I want the Razing or effect of the Razing of Doma to play a part in Xura's development.. But if I take this root of how she is Orthardian, I'm then posed with the question of who would more likely have been Xura's father an thus how Xura might be mixed an further how her founding upbringing an childhood years may have been like because of this. See I still very much find the idea of her being Mixed attractive in the sense of the inherent struggles she would face due to such and would be a rather likely part in how she ends up with the oddball outcast group she is with now (who happen to be pirates which is a bit kind'a life circle moment) Now I hadn't thought of her being Mix Race an only Mixed Clan but now that I'm having her mother kidnapped it does open doors, I am leaning towards leaving it more simple an just stick with the Sun Male as it certainly makes it more possible in this new backing if he was part of the crew that nabbed her. that said. I do get bit stuck on that an the crew.. (yes way over thinking things its a bloody curse) I would think most slaver ships likely would have some level of "don't knock up the product less you want to be sold with them" or such "policy" as knocked up "products" would definitely lower sale value/potential and the sail from Shroud to Othard is an unknown time length (to me atm couldn't find anything) but would definitely not be a quick one. Thought he could say knock her up few days before port an she's offed as normal.. or he's another abducted an they are sold to the same buyer. Which leads to the new sticking point of who may have "bought" Ohki on the Orthard side. We don't know much of life or culture in pretty much any of Othard's regions but it would be odd to me to think a lower "class" of some form were not part of such however they ended up in that situation. (correct me if I'm wrong) We've hints of Doma and some of how the Xaela tribes worked.. but from what I've found on my own digging its pretty sparse and as mentioned in this thread still overall rather unknown territory We do know AuRa, Hyur, Lafa & potentially Roegadyn? hail from Othard. Over all the later three are not all that appealing to me.. there is little way to remotely try an depict them in her look, hight wise all Miqo'te max out round 5ft3.. an I've Xura round 5ft1 I think. can't make her skin green.. could make it blue-ish if I swapped her to a actual Moon kat base.. Could make her pretty dam pale or dark as a Moon base as well.. At current she's Sun based in the character creator and written with the Moon Keeper's larger ears/fangs an as close to a shared skin tone between the two I could find. I'm drawn to the the idea of a AuRa being involved if not the Sun Kat and currently with what little I know of either race can only see such occurring as her being taken a Maid or such for a Raen place but even that feels bit stretching to me.. Course could be argued all of this is stretching an I'm torturing myself trying to make it work. Think trying to work out more of Xura herself.. might be best.. yes I'm more or less dumping active thoughts an hoping for guidance an feed back.. Some key things I do want to her in her current self some of this would be reflective of her past of course. Is around 30 at current. Loves to tinker, take part, put back together an muck with stuff.. Would have some understanding and a very high interest, in Magitek, the hardened Aether that runs it (can't spell it off top head) an both items applications. This idea loosely includes minion, armor and direct bodily integration & and abundant curiosity for relics an ruins from Allagan Empire Books, anything she can get her mitts on she'll typically read if she thinks it of value/use which to hear more current "survival at all cost" mind set for the past 5 or so years is pretty much anything. As said Relics of all forms intrigued her greatly especially an old Allagan stuff which much of GE magitek is reversed from. Has a thing for plushies that she'll almost never admit to openly but she does poorly in hiding it. Does -not- trust easy at all and while "skittish" would not be a word for her, she is very quick to draw weapon but will flee if that is the better option congruent to continuing to live. She'd rather face head on what might do harm to her though. Has a LOT of scars, most are quite faded but some are more recent and a few are quite fresh. Her tail while whole is wrapped in leather in places to hide the missing fur and marks it has of it's own. Done in a manor that doesn't look sooo obvious she is trying to hide such but easy to tell if ever closely inspected. Her right ear is missing 1/3rd from tip along lower ridge and into the soft pink tissue quite a bit. One thought is this does affect her hearing and was part of what inspired her to tinker, rigged a kind of earring cufflet of sorts along the upper ridge with a clasp to what of the lower filling this empty space to help with hearing loss from that ear, its crude not always reliable, removable and because such does get misplaced a lot these days now that she has a place to call home, before she was more careful, it is not special in anyway beyond its function. Truly dislikes thunder storms an gets panicked by them due to sounding much like the cannon fire of GE ships to her. (Which I'm assuming along with other means was something used in the Razing of Doma.) Does get ptsd like flashbacks of a number of events pre and post home destruction including such. (again I'm assuming was over done as an example to other GE taken regions an I imagine a scene where its leveled by aerial bombardment) is quite heavily not fond of spiders, worms and slug like creatures. Loves the stars an being under the Moon. Her speech is bit oddly, accented and has caused misunderstandings before. (not sure how this developed but it is something I'd like her to have.) One idea linked to her ptsd I'm toying with is a bit of duality to her personality. Is rough of what I have so far for ideas for Xura specifically.. Currently I'm aiming for Bard game play wise yet many of the classes appeal to me in terms of their RP standing for her, I'm to noob to say beyond enjoying Archer an Conjr bit so far in actual play what of the others I'd like i find Archer forces a more slow tactical play and I am usually drawn to support ish rolls but rp wise could see a number playing well to her story. Beyond Ninja though I'm not sure what else might seem like Othardian basis. Was DK something that was "brought over"? She's already got the deck pretty stacked against her.. adding the mistrust of Ninja as well might be much but is forsure a known Doma/Othard skillset.. Again thank you to any who read an leave comment.. do appreciate it. ~Fel

Thank you all for the feedback and suggestions I'm on the fly atm so I can't reply to everything but please do keep the ideas coming. I'm aware that Hafers would likely be treated quite poorly more so than Moon keepers depending where said Moons made home. This is something I've incorporated into my idea and don't shy away from. case in point the FC I'm with is a group of pirate foke and while she can be quite kind to rare select, her mental track on the whole could be bit unstable and geared more towards survival regardless of the how. the Orthard idea included a very small band, bout 3 or 5 Moon families tops, one of them being her own. I'm not hung up on how they got there so much but as I was trying to at least mentally establish the possiblity that such a group had migrated there within 100 to 300 years of the first migration.. making her ancerstors from Orthard rather than still having some ties to the shroud. age wise I'm not to sure but she'd probably be earily 30s as of Elorza landfall. meaning quite some time between joining up with pirates, how she got there or came to that choice and the events that lead up to it from fleeing home land. at this point I'm starting to think for simplicity sake and less migrains that perhaps Ala Mhgio or areas in that area near where the Garlean Empire would eventually come in, the catilist of change and perhaps a point of other plots to her past.. I don't think the GE took prisoners either you "submited" to their rule. or you died.. but places taken over, the people were not automaticly granted citciesnry, and were with out much in the way of rights. ~Fel

Hi Coalition, I'm back again.. finally, got my net sorted out for real this time and I've also made much success in actually getting my head around tab combat.. and the pace of combat in FF14 at least in the lower levels. (Tera was my first 3D mmo, with Ragnarok being my first mmo neither combat system reallly much in the way of translating easily) Anyroad. I come today in hopes of help for my character Xura, I've been digging around for supporting lore and the like for past few days now for her, whom, at current rough idea hashing, is a Miqo'te of Moon Keeper birth/raising but is a Halfer (half breed) and at first glance is easily mistaken for a Sun Seeker till her larger ears, incisors an slightly darker skin are taken note of. Now I'm aware "Halfers" as a friend an I affectionately refer to them in any game world, are in FF14 by no means a new concept and culturally between the two clan differences would normally be very rare. (Though I've come across quite a few) I'm wondering how likely it may have been that some of the Miqo'te clans (Sun/Moon) migrated as far as Othard and the city states that would eventually develop there. First, we know both clans migrated very very very very long past in Hydaelyn history from their originating continent in the south Meracydia Second, as per the mentioning in Geography of Hydaelyn there is Land Bridges from Aldenard to Ilsabard & from Ilsabard to Othard. Third, with current lore saying most Moon bands had settled in the Shroud; was that not back when Elementals were at full strength an kicking anyones ass who stepped into the woods? Would that then lead to them having to make home elsewhere in the Shroud and that mayhaps eventually as the population grew or as in following prey or w/e other factors, lead some have decided to migrate further North and East? I'm not sure why I'm so hung up on the idea of her band being from Othard in the Mts near Doma but it is an idea that is quite shiny to me when it comes to designing her and what all that might entail for her pre-landfall story at Ul'Dah.. which includes trekking back across those land bridges and having found the Elezen way too snooty to make the woods a comfortable place to call home (that and my starting class was PGL not Archer the later I've come to enjoy much more) Now perhaps for simplicity sake it would be better to say her band settled near Ala Mhigo an I'd still likely accomplish quite a bit with what I'd like to do with her story. Guidance & input would be appreciated. ~Fel

Thank you Very much agree, had I known sooner I would have already done it, been a week now lol, least I can catch up on some sleep. Any suggested reading for character development? Lore stuff or perhaps a list of questions your meant to answer while thinking of them? Still bit stuck on if I want to do a Raen or Xaela, I love the darker hue to the horns but at the same time would think story wise with how Raen went all Temple monk deep into seclusion would lend to her being bit more academic.. yet Xaela would allow perhaps more chance interaction with non Doman foke an feed her curiosity an perhaps engineering/R&D endeavors. Stat wise I know base stats mater very little by end game.. but as I do want to start her off as a Arcanist I know the Raen are more magic inclined. ~Felka

Thank you :blush: Found RPC while looking for better RP resources and information, FFXIV is the only FF game I've ever played myself. Oh wow I wasn't aware you could do that, from the info I had found on loadstone it sounded like transfers to Character creation locked servers was prevented. If thats not the case then I'll definitely try that root. Would be much more preferred than.. staying up till nearly 4am clicking the little refresh on the in-game character server select list every three or four min :frustrated: lol. And that would give me more time to figure out my Raen's background an personality an such. ~Felka

Hi Coalition, I'm Felka, returning to FFXIV (or at least trying to) after connection issues prompted me to abandon the world twice for about a year each time it happened. As such I've heavily lost connection with my two current characters and don't recall any of the RP backing I'd given either. With the introduction of the Au Ra.. I'd very much like to start fresh as one and as a different starting class, however it would seem getting into Balmung is even harder than it used to be. Was up very late last night hoping to get in right after maintenance but to my surprise Bal and Gig were both still locked out. My preference would be Balmung as I have some friends who are active there, was hoping someone might have some tips towards getting in.. I'd thought of Fantasia-ing one of my older characters yet.. perhaps oddly.. doing so to me feels kind'a like killing them and such doesn't sit well with me lol. So a bit about me, I'm 26, F, Lesbian, living in Canada's beautiful West Coast of British Columbia. Have been Roleplaying in a online sense since around 13 or 14.. starting out on Gaia of all forums lol then finding a really sweet "Muck" client community.. once I got a better laptop I of course started to branch out to other means such as Ragnarok Online and Phantasy Star Online Blue Burst then to Second Life after High School. Having PTSD I don't "work" in a normal sense but I do the occasional rare programming contract here an there in Second Life.. it's more of a hobby that I have a love/hate relationship with lol the language is unique to SL and there isn't any real "School" for it. Been trying to learn how to make 3D objects in Blender as well to sell in said program but tis very much a steep learning curve. Anyhow, a friend of mine went off her rocker an gifted me the Heaven Sword CE digital pack and a month of time, so I'd very much like to try an get back into the world.. I miss it quite a lot and if my connection proves to hold this time around I hope to stay for quite a long time. Speaking of which in terms of character I do have some ideas, a Raen being a bit more scholarly/R&D type-ish, engineering inclined perhaps.. I hope to start her off as an Arcanist. and if all things go well.. I would very much like to eventually experience as much the world has to offer in terms of classes/jobs maybe even a little house somewhere.. though I hear getting one of those is easier on a lower populated server.. So thats me and my little story. Nice to meet you. ~Felka