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If my character was the main character, he could totally have at least one Scion in his party: Archon Thancred V'kebbe the Stray Alka Zolka I like Lominsans okay. Sshhh.

Aghurlal's main partner would be an Absol. It'd be a non-combat pokémon, though. I actually made a team for him a while ago - Flygon, Salamence, Garchomp, Haxorus, Hydreigon, Noibat. ...better hope your opponent doesn't like Fairy types, hon... I had this idea that he'd be a League hopeful but get knocked out in the semi-finals or something and - as a result of his strong performance - be offered a position as a Dragon-type gymleader, so that's cool.

I don't have any sources but I have a tonne of possibilities/ideas/additional questions... Scale shedding is probably a parameter in skincare - possible to have "bad scales" like "bad skin" It's possible shedding both too quickly (flaky, thin scales) and too slowly (thick, stiff scales) are uncomfortable as hell Various groups of au ra might have their own rituals / creams / salves / snake oils to treat the various ways it can go wrong. Differences between raen and xaela? Differences between xaela clans? What prompts scales to grow in certain places? The fact they're variable on face presets implies they can grow unique to the individual I had the idea that certain types of skin injuries would result in scales forming instead of scar tissue - something that causes damage, but not enough to inhibit the skin layer that "becomes" scales? Scale patterns and thicknesses changing based on environment - temperature / humidity / etc? "Saunas" to assist with scale shedding? This would be a cute room to have in an Au Ra based FC house... Do Au Ra get scalier or less scaly as they get older? If you have lots of / relatively few scales then would you be seen as a "baby" versus someone with the opposite? How do scales affect heat regulation? Do they make it more difficult or less difficult in hot climates, for example? How does this differ between xaela (black scales - absorbent of heat) and raen (white scales - reflective)? Do xaela sweat more than raen? Is this a point of contention? Is "overall scale coverage" genetically or environmentally determined? We know at least one xaela tribe use their shed scales to create armour and so forth - what properties does this have? What would it be most comparable to (piesteskin? basilisk skin? dare i say it - dragonskin?) Are the scales individually hard and chitinous, or soft and leathery? Does this change once they're removed from the body? What causes colour variations - e.g. some have red, purple, blue, or yellow tinges to their scales? Is it environmental - i.e. can it be affected by diet or skin treatments? Are some colours seen as more desirable? Could cosmetic scale colourants be a thing? I could probably keep writing but. I have so many worldbuilding questions about au ra, you guys. So many questions.

The only bit of lore pertaining to this that I remember is to do with Sharlayan, not greater Eorzea: I can only remember one NPC (a Coerthan woman) even making mention of [one of] the twins being "but a child", and it's in the context of asking you to go easy on them emotionally - not an attempt at preventing them from doing any of the horrifically dangerous, difficult, stressful, and politically charged things that they do that in the modern world they definitely would not have been allowed to do, let alone be considered responsible for to the same degree as an adult. [speculation time] I can imagine it mattering more if the person in question is a noble, or, more specifically, stands to inherit something - then there's obviously a desire to see the person safely and soundly to adulthood so they can retain their inheritance and manage their estate. Folks probably wouldn't want to be seen to be aiding noble runaways, as that business can get very expensive and/or lethal quite quickly. A refugee child though, or a bastard, or a disgraced/disowned person, likely would not be subject to any of the same hesitations... Alternative ideas for how she could be fired: maybe she was caught stealing to implement her income (this is a running theme across a few quests - no legal minimum wage in Eorzea)? Maybe someone took offence to her presence as an Au Ra refugee, and complained to her boss about something she hadn't done? Maybe she was rumoured to be an evil spirit of some kind (smallfolk in this setting tend to be very superstitious) and was driven out on the belief she was bad luck? Maybe she "acted out" (i.e. had traumatic memories triggered and behaved in ways those around her couldn't understand) and was fired due to her "conduct"?

I'd like the option to pick a "personality" for your PC (think along the lines of retainer personality). It'd just alter little things like what face your character pulls in certain situations, or what dialogue options you're presented with. Because of the way FFXIV works - it's an MMO, everyone has to end up at the same "end result" or it messes up the "MM" part - I doubt these things would ever be great enough as to actually impact the in-game outcome of events. But it'd still be nice to have little expressions and customisations of your character as an individual with a personality beyond being a reskin of The Hyur Midlander. As for in-world utility skills... I admit, Pickpocket and Sap are the two things I miss most from my WoW rogue. Sap (and Distract) because it made stealth challenges more interesting and presented you with tools to solve problems like large pulls in a dungeon or unusually tough mobs in the world, as opposed to just "pay attention to enemy facing and don't mess up". Pickpocket I miss just because it was fun (Mug just doesn't feel the same...), especially getting flavour items that added dimension to otherwise nameless NPCs. One of my fav quests from that game was the one near Ravenholdt that requires Pickpocket and Detect. I don't expect NIN to change that much, but imo it'd be neat to see what SE would do with the idea of a melée support/utility class...

★ Confiance desFerme's profile is now completed. It can be viewed on the RPC Wiki here, or on my tumblr here.

Dear Costa FATE parties... Please tank Cancer further up the beach. That is all. Thank you.

I ask my friends to roulette with me because I find tanking for strangers inordinately stressful... ...then, due to the lack of pressure, I somehow go from being a mediocre-bordering-good tank to being an awful tank. Losing mobs on big pulls, forgetting about patrols, doing the first three pulls without Grit on, the lot. I even got Terror'd in Haukke Manor yesterday. On the last boss. While adds galore were up. Who even does that? The AoE gives you, like, 5 entire seconds to stun or GTFO! I somehow did neither! Also I mean, while I'm at it, I should probably mention that I annoy my friends approximately 100% of the time by constantly saying I'm awful at everything except my absolute comfort zone (which is SCH healing). I can only imagine they're tired of feeling like they have to reassure me, or of me "deluding myself" into thinking I'm worse than I am. I guess it's easier to say I'm bad when I'm not, than to say I'm good when I'm not? Or just that anxiety thing of "I feel bad, therefore I must be bad"? In both cases: sorry, friends...

Yes please... In general I think they need to work on the integration of alts (let me at least send mail to them! Please!) and putting them as tenants in the main's house would go a long way towards that. It's not like the housing economy really gains anything worthwhile from having extremely rich individuals essentially buying it out, versus multiple individuals holding one house each, so I don't think there'd be server-economy concerns about a change like this. Obviously some people would still get around it by purchasing FC houses with one-man FC's, and I don't really see a way to work around that without greatly inconveniencing people who aren't doing anything wrong, but even just providing stable and garden access to alts would remove some of the desire for the relatively casual player to try and buy multiple personal houses. Especially if they created a system whereby folks could make private rooms in personal houses which they're an appropriately-ranked tenant of (meaning someone with alts sharing their main's house could still have a "personal area" for each alt).

Could I ask what it is you don't like about the prospect of using a tumblr? That would help in determining which alternative services are appropriate.

One primary purpose of most RPC wiki pages is to facilitate RP with the character, yes? [The other being documentation of past RP developments, but that's not what the OP addresses.] I think the aim is to strike a balance between providing enough information to hook people in to wanting to RP with you, without oversharing and defeating the point of anyone ever talking to your character. I try and mentally run by "will this add to new RP partners' experience of this character, or take away from it?" before I add a detail or section to a character's page. For me, this means leaving off a lot of backstory stuff and just focussing on what's possible for people to find out about my characters; for someone else, this might mean providing the full backstory and history and social networks so it's easier for potential partners to find an "in". As far as including the Garlean thing or not is concerned, I think it depends on what tone you want to take towards it as your character develops. Do you want it to be a genuine OOC secret that people find out in play ("FOIP" is a shorthand lots of my larp friends use for if someone's being too nosy OOCly about an IC secret, haha) through leads and hints you place, with a dramatic reveal at a plot-appropriate point? Or is it something you're open to being approached about by other players for advance plotting purposes, e.g. someone messaging you and is like "hey my character is Garlean too, could they possibly know each other", "hey my character is a Grand Company agent, could we run a plot where they're on your trail but ultimately fail to convict you", etc etc etc. You definitely don't have to fall into any trend if you don't think that suits your character and their situation, so think on what you want out of the page's existence and make the decision based on that.

Levelling roulette. Aurum Vale (first time as healer). Struggling to keep tank up even though their health isn't dropping too quickly. Suddenly get a bunch of 0% notifications. Forgot to repair before I queued. All my right side gear gone, left side is getting 10% notifications as we kill trash. Apologise verbally, offer to drop out so they can get a proper healer, but also offer to stay if they'd rather have a bad healer than the in-progress queue. Group is indifferent, say I can do what I want / what I think is best. I try, but I'm really fighting just to keep the tank up through trash. I apologise again and drop out just before the first boss. I used my roulette penalty to sit in the corner by the marketboard and spend all my gil thinking about what I'd done, because it turned out all of my gear on both sides was - broken or not - about 10 levels behind where it should have been. >_>

This update makes it more difficult for me to get a house on all fronts. I can now afford a Balmung house - yay! but so can the rest of the server - boo. And a Siren/Zalera house is going to be further out of my reach than before. Given my PC issues (bad graphics lag that has caused me to die during full party encounters before) I think I'm going to have to give this wave a miss, and just bank on the "more wards = more chance that one plot among those in existence will become available at any given time" thing if I ever want a Mist house.

See, 2.0 voice acting was really funny to me, because the way I imagine Aghurlal's voice is really similar to Alphinaud's 2.0 voice. Whoops.

A double-page spread run in a well-known Ul'dahn tabloid: "Slayers of Ifrit - Where Are They Now?" The spread has an "exclusive peek" at the more public sections of the primal-slayers list that's curated by the Immortal Flames. Some of the people on the list are interviewed. Aghurlal is not one of the interviewees; he is inferred, although not named, in the subheading "Whereabouts Unknown": Lost in the Inferno, where concerns are suggested over the idea that the Immortal Flames managed to lose track of such people. - A subtitle on the front page of a Gridanian tabloid: "She SLAPPED MY FACE!" - Non-Forestborn Medical Practices Questioned in Our Exclusive Report (Page 7) The journalists interviewed an unhappy patient of a local non-Forestborn chirurgeon. The patient described the chirurgeon being rude to them and berating them over the reason they were injured, calling it "foolish". The journalists attempted to get an interview with the chirurgeon as well, but were refused; in the article, they take this as an admission of guilt, and question the value of sharing the secrets of conjury with outsiders. - A small article in the corner on page 4 of an Ul'dahn newspaper: Lower Sil'dih Dig Progressing Slowly - Use Of Funding Questioned The article features two statements. The first is from the funding body that is threatening to pull out, citing suspicions that their money is being spent on drink instead of archaeology. In the second, Caidenden Caiden conveys a statement on behalf of her employers that there are strict measures to ensure that the money is being spent correctly, and that the lack of finds is due to the archaeological process itself being a long one. - A double-page spread near the centre of a not-well-respected Gridanian tabloid, known to resorting to sensationalism in an effort to make sales: "DRUNKARDS, REBELS, AND SPIES": What REALLY goes on inside the Adventurers' Guild! A caricatured illustration of a burly auri man is used as an example of the "drunkards" that can be found within the organisation. - A 100-word article as part of a column about positive developments in Ul'dah: Breakthrough at the Ossuary; Doman Adventurer Credited The article is about the fact that a Kanshi no Shuukami is listed as a credit in the "special thanks to" section of a new paper that's come out of the Arrzaneth Ossuary interpreting ancient texts on the subject of thaumaturgy. This article is the latest in a series from this particular newspaper citing examples of various Domans and Ala Mhigans who are playing important positive roles in the affairs of Ul'dah. - A small article in the "BIZARRE NEWS" section of a Lominsan tabloid: Cat Stuck Up A Tree!? In an interview, the miqo'te adventurer Y'Trinity Taqa openly admits that she had to be helped down out of a tree which she climbed in an effort to retrieve one of her arrows. There's a small illustration of her holding the arrow in question and grinning with humour. - Another 100-word article as part of the column about positive developments in Ul'dah, in a different week: "Future Free Paladins Qualify" The article describes how a new wave of trainee free paladins has been accepted. A short statement from one of them, Liuthas Corwell, describes how excited he is to begin. - A gossip section in an otherwise straight-faced Gridanian newspaper: "Gridania's Multicultural Families" One of the families described is a marriage between a Gridanian lord and his Sharlayan wife. The interview with the lord, who is very personable and was happy to invite the journalists into his home, includes the detail that they adopted a foundling some twenty years ago - now a young man, who is currently away in Limsa Lominsa studying arcanima, and of whom they are very proud.

First time DRK tanking. First time tanking anything at all past Sastasha/Tam-Tara/Copperbell. Say before we begin that it's my first time tanking; ask people to take it easy, and apologise for slowness. (I get lost several times - Haukke Manor lol - but there's a friendly SMN who helps me. I hope he got all the comms and not just mine.) Healer is AST who is tangibly reluctant to cast anything on me except Essential Dignity. They don't touch their healing spells unless I'm already below 30%, no matter how fast I'm dropping. I love it when people hear "I'm new, take it easy" and think that means "I love to stress about cycling my cooldowns during every pull when I'm still so early in getting a grip on my basic rotation that I'm constantly tweaking my hotbar layout mid-dungeon". I mean, I didn't die, so I guess on the one hand I can't complain. (I usually heal and "well, no one died, so it's okay!" is my default response to tank apologising for messy pull.) But on the other hand, it would've been nice to feel like I wasn't being expected to instantly know how to pro tank, and like I was inconveniencing the healer by wanting them to heal uh, not perfectly weaving my mitigation cooldowns during my literal first ever dungeon as my class.

As a completely separate alternative universe. The version of my characters you meet on Balmung are not the Warriors of Light. But I do RP an AU with my levelling partner and their character, Shirogawa, where they are. We're already in a transformative mindset since we're putting that there are 2 "Warriors of Light", not 1, plus an additional unit of 7 other adventurer-scions who regularly support them. So we're already making changes to events and saying they happened slightly differently even if the ultimate outcome was the same - and editing dialogue to include things unique to our characters, like this [sohm Al spoilers]. It's not that big of a leap to make other changes too. It helps matters that Aghurlal's capriciousness is balanced out by Shirogawa's diplomatic heart, so usually they balance each other out. Together, most of the time, they come to more or less the same actions and words that the canon "Warrior of Light" does (if with approximately 20 minutes more of discussing between themselves than is portrayed in the game lol). You'll note from that journal entry that I also had to write a lot of NPC dialogue that isn't included in the canon game... including one's OC with anything like a personality inherently means changing the canon, which is half of why I immediately knew I didn't want to RP in public as being "the Warrior of Light" (the other half being that it wouldn't be fair to others, at all, to have my character being Hydaelyn's supposedly singular Chosen). So as far as how I handle it when I meet others, the answer is I don't. It's a separate universe altogether where my character is the Warrior of Light, and the one where he's meeting people in the streets of Limsa is a universe where the most special thing he's done is get #rekt by Ifrit. Doing MSQ ICly is still fun, though, even if it's largely a personal && private RP. Would recommend if you ever have a character who's heroically inclined, a friend to level with, and the right mindset to keep two separate versions of the same character.

Done. Glad my main character didn't happen to be one of my nonbinary ones, though - given the question is asking after "gender" and not "model preset".

★ Kanshi no Shuukami's profile is now completed. It can be viewed on the RPC Wiki here, or on my tumblr here.

Killed his family, became a hero! What a role model.

As far as the version of them you'll meet during public RP is concerned, the huge majority of my characters fall into the "class" box. The exceptions are Caiden, who is an archaeologist first and foremost; and Liuthas, who I think may become a free paladin. Aghurlal has three "classes", but they're all... classes: lancer, rogue, and fisher. Confiance also has two classes (conjurer and arcanist). Cinu-a is broadly a "marauder"; he fights with an axe, even if he wasn't taught by the Yellowjackets. Likewise, Y'Trinity's fighting style is well within the bounds of the "archer" class, even though she wasn't taught in Gridania. Medic is a classic conjurer, Shuukami is a classic thaumaturge.

That first boss of Qarn... I've literally never had a smooth run of it, even in friend groups. So when I'm rouletting and it pops up, I always strap myself in for a bit of a ride. This particular group, I was in as SCH. We got through the first doom + wasps without incident. Unfortunately, the second instance of both popped at the same time - and through no fault of their own, both DPS were so busy removing their doom debuffs that they didn't notice the wasps until it was too late. Wasp #1 takes out the tank, and #2 takes the monk. I take a deep breath. I do not have Swiftcast yet at the time of this story, but I know if I don't get the tank back up, we are going to wipe. So I quietly thank Hydaelyn for Selene, shove Adloq on the bard, pop Surecast given I half expect said bard to also bite the dust, and dig my heels in for the 8 seconds it takes to resurrect someone without it. This is the bit that made me happy - the bard does not bite the dust. The bard waits for Adloq to drop off, then pops every defensive cooldown they have, all while kiting the boss away from me so I can complete my cast without being hit by that frontal AoE. Then, presumably knowing that a res takes like half my mana and I wasn't exactly on full to start with, they even find time to put their mana regen song on. I am in love with this bard. It was my own failing that I didn't manage to get the monk back up too - I was so busy trying to keep the bard up while the tank regained aggro, keeping the tank alive with their weakness debuff, and doing the boss mechanics that I didn't get the opportunity for another 8-second cast before the boss was dead. I feel like if I had the practice I do now, back then, I might have been able to get the monk back up too. But everyone was gracious about it, and the fact that everyone knew what to do when things went pearshaped (that the tank and bard both noticed I was going for a long-cast res, that everyone knew when and how to use their cooldowns) and the fact that we all understood what was needed from each other without having to say anything left me feeling the most secure I've felt in a dungeon outside a friend group in a long time. (Just why is that first boss so fiendishly all-or-nothing compared to all the bosses at similar levels, anyway? Jeez.)

Personally, I think having more boards makes it difficult for each individual user to consistently spot new threads across all of them, and - unless implemented with thought - can lead to having multiple borderline-inactive boards as opposed to one active one. I think it's important to monitor the activity on a new board before making a decision on whether it needs sub-boards. Like, the purpose of a lore questions board is to allow people to ask their lore questions and receive answers from the community, right? So you have to make it easy for both people to ask a question, and people to find questions to answer. I'm worried that splitting it would make it hard - for both people who need help, to know where to ask; and people who are offering help, to find threads they can weigh in on. I used to ask myself before splitting a board, three questions: is the board actually active enough to warrant this (i.e. it's receiving so many new posts that new threads are buried too quickly to receive any replies); will all of the proposed sub-boards be receiving at least one new post, each, per day (so, say, splitting into two slightly broader categories might be more pertinent than splitting into multiple extremely narrow ones); are the divisions clearly defined (i.e. most users will, most of the time, mostly make their threads in the correct forum without a moderator having to intervene; and is there a minimum chance of one topic fitting into multiple boards)? Obviously #3 is an easy question to answer when it's two topics being forced to share a board together and constantly butting each other's elbows (example from my past: art vs stories, where both parties constantly felt the other was bumping their topics off the first page before they got attention), but when you're dividing based on more nebulous topics then you have to consider if there'll be overlap where users will end up confused about where their threads belong. #1 and #2 just require monitoring of the forum's activity over time. And if the desire for sub-boards is about categorising threads for archiving purposes rather than activity ones... maybe a masterpost of quality threads on various topics would be better? Probably ultimately easier on the moderator team, too, since it'd just require updating every now and again (say, regular sweep of the board for new threads worthy of addition every 2-3 weeks) rather than constantly monitoring threads for whether they need to be moved or not. But that's just me and my experience with message boards in the past. I openly admit I haven't been here for long, and I'm basically a random stranger hehe, so it's entirely possible my experiences won't apply here.

Basically spent my time since I transferred to Balmung too bowed by insecurity to do more than 2 single pieces of RP, both of which were pre-planned and with friends. I'm worried my character comes off as boring unless I tell you his whole backstory, and obviously if I did that he'd come across as too attention-grabbing, and I'm worried he has too many NPC-based connections to seem fair, that he has too many skills to seem balanced, that people are going to yell at me over him having the Echo, that people are going to work out or find out he's not cisgender and direct crap at me over that (or if I tell people up-front to avoid misunderstandings, direct crap at me over "shoving it in their face"), that I made his character concept too narrow to fit into anything, that if I made it any wider he'd be even more OP than he probably already is, that people will think I'm bad for making him from a fan-made tribe rather than trying to fit him into one of the lore-approved ones, that people will see stuff I wrote on my blog and assume I'm doing public RP with him as WoL (which I'm not)... Every time I think "oh hey, maybe I could go to that event" I end up talking myself out of it and ending up at "they probably won't want someone like my character there; I'll spare them the trouble of fitting me in". Regardless of how well the event actually suits my character. Like, I could probably see a listing for an event being like, "meeting of xaela fishermen who do bodyguard work on the side and are secretly associated to the Dutiful Sisters", and still somehow convince myself I'm not welcome or that turning up would be a nuisance for the organisers. >_>