If you refuse to disclose your characters background, not because 'your character wouldn't, but because you simply can't since you lack that knowledge OOCly, you allow your characters actions to be motivated purely on OOC basis. In that sense, you might be breaking your own character without even realizing it.
A counter-example; If your character establishes trust and becomes involved with another, wherein secrecy becomes an issue, and you're meant to disclose things like that, but simply can't out of OOC reasons, what will you do then? That's where the logic of secrecy based on OOC ignorance comes to a halt rather swiftly.
That being said, no, you should be able to create a Doman/Othard character. But at this point, with the information that we 'do' have, it is smarter to make them Doman/Othard Orphans raised in Eorzea or Garlemald. Atleast there, we have enough lore to substantially explain all the possible hiccups, because your character simply doesn't 'know' Doma / Othard himself, thus cannot render information.
Establishing Characters with a lack of details is only possible if you're clever enough to work around the edges in a logical way. You can get away with almost anything, PROVIDED you render the right explenation AND keep the vybe / feeling lore-like.
However, to simply go 'My character can't say, not because he wouldn't. but because I can't as an OOC player and thus make my character not say it' Isn't the right way to go about it.
A counter-example; If your character establishes trust and becomes involved with another, wherein secrecy becomes an issue, and you're meant to disclose things like that, but simply can't out of OOC reasons, what will you do then? That's where the logic of secrecy based on OOC ignorance comes to a halt rather swiftly.
That being said, no, you should be able to create a Doman/Othard character. But at this point, with the information that we 'do' have, it is smarter to make them Doman/Othard Orphans raised in Eorzea or Garlemald. Atleast there, we have enough lore to substantially explain all the possible hiccups, because your character simply doesn't 'know' Doma / Othard himself, thus cannot render information.
Establishing Characters with a lack of details is only possible if you're clever enough to work around the edges in a logical way. You can get away with almost anything, PROVIDED you render the right explenation AND keep the vybe / feeling lore-like.
However, to simply go 'My character can't say, not because he wouldn't. but because I can't as an OOC player and thus make my character not say it' Isn't the right way to go about it.
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