The first MMO I played was FFXI. I've always been really into myths and legends. At the time, I was kind of moving out of the myths and legends thing, and more into contemporary interests. I was completely obsessed with Ocarina of Time.Â
I made a Hume warrior in FFXI so I could have a sword and shield like Link. (sword and shield is terrible for warriors, but I was like 13, I didn't know what I was doing.) I gave him red-brown shaggy hair and made him short. It was the first time I RP'd and I was terrible at it. When I hit level 30 and unlocked paladin, I realized in this game I had to wear heavy armor. I was in Ronfaure and the music, plus the distant view of San d'Oria as a big castle town, reminded me of the old Robin Hood and King Arthur stories. I started RPing him as a knight.
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I loved it. Being a knight felt so cool. But then I played FF4 because a friend told me it was a cool game. I was inspired by that game to try Dragoon out. For the next few years I played my hume as almost exclusively Paladin and Dragoon, being as knightly in RP as I could. I was still terrible, and didn't really know anything about actual knights, for the record.
I let the game go after a few years, and moved to WoW with a friend of mine. I was getting older, and all high school edgy so I made my knight an undead knight instead.
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It didn't make any sense, obviously, but in my head I kept thinking "He's like my FFXI paladin if he died and came back FOR REVENGGGGGE" (Side note: my main was actually a rogue, but this was the guy I RP'd with in that game) I kept him around for years and years, gradually growing out of my teen angst and trying to do some good story-telling about a fallen knight. I explored other games for RP, too, like LOTRO, where I had a dwarf who was a completely different character, but it gave me more ideas for this original one.
Finally, FFXIV was announced. I wasn't able to play more than about two weeks of 1.0, and then it went down. My dreams of "resurrecting" my paladin/dragoon were gone.
THEN 2.0 was announced and I signed up for the beta! I remade my character as a Hyur. pretty much looking exactly the same but with some scars and some facial hair, like it had been a rough few years.
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Eventually I looked into the best option for playing a knight in FFXIV and I discovered Ishgard which fit perfectly into my love for both knights and dragoons. I turned Uther Skystrider (which was the name I chose for this game, after Uther Pendragon and the "Skystrider" lance from FFXI) into an Elezen, because it fit the idea of a noble more in this universe.
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Two years out from making him an Elezen, and he's still going strong. His morals have become more gray, but he's still a good person. His character arc isn't one I would've expected, but that's the beauty of creating a character with a strong personality. They tend to make more choices than you do.
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I made a Hume warrior in FFXI so I could have a sword and shield like Link. (sword and shield is terrible for warriors, but I was like 13, I didn't know what I was doing.) I gave him red-brown shaggy hair and made him short. It was the first time I RP'd and I was terrible at it. When I hit level 30 and unlocked paladin, I realized in this game I had to wear heavy armor. I was in Ronfaure and the music, plus the distant view of San d'Oria as a big castle town, reminded me of the old Robin Hood and King Arthur stories. I started RPing him as a knight.
I loved it. Being a knight felt so cool. But then I played FF4 because a friend told me it was a cool game. I was inspired by that game to try Dragoon out. For the next few years I played my hume as almost exclusively Paladin and Dragoon, being as knightly in RP as I could. I was still terrible, and didn't really know anything about actual knights, for the record.
I let the game go after a few years, and moved to WoW with a friend of mine. I was getting older, and all high school edgy so I made my knight an undead knight instead.
It didn't make any sense, obviously, but in my head I kept thinking "He's like my FFXI paladin if he died and came back FOR REVENGGGGGE" (Side note: my main was actually a rogue, but this was the guy I RP'd with in that game) I kept him around for years and years, gradually growing out of my teen angst and trying to do some good story-telling about a fallen knight. I explored other games for RP, too, like LOTRO, where I had a dwarf who was a completely different character, but it gave me more ideas for this original one.
Finally, FFXIV was announced. I wasn't able to play more than about two weeks of 1.0, and then it went down. My dreams of "resurrecting" my paladin/dragoon were gone.
THEN 2.0 was announced and I signed up for the beta! I remade my character as a Hyur. pretty much looking exactly the same but with some scars and some facial hair, like it had been a rough few years.
Eventually I looked into the best option for playing a knight in FFXIV and I discovered Ishgard which fit perfectly into my love for both knights and dragoons. I turned Uther Skystrider (which was the name I chose for this game, after Uther Pendragon and the "Skystrider" lance from FFXI) into an Elezen, because it fit the idea of a noble more in this universe.
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Two years out from making him an Elezen, and he's still going strong. His morals have become more gray, but he's still a good person. His character arc isn't one I would've expected, but that's the beauty of creating a character with a strong personality. They tend to make more choices than you do.
