
There's absolutely zero reason why you can't be from XI, barring the expected language gap.
Barring that, there's nothing to keep you. Except I guess the vast difference in world expectations and ability and knowledge and mythology and world.
There's nothing to stop you from being from Vana'diel or Earth or Universe 616 or the DC Flashpoint World or Earth2 or Alternate US History or The Wheel of Time series or Game of Thrones or....
I hope that illustrates the point? If it doesn't, there's an awesome lot of XIV-specific lore that lends to storytelling. As someone who loves and adores XI, there's no reason to pick up here. It's fantastic (and my XI main is an alt of mine) but it doesn't really do for XIV.
Barring that, there's nothing to keep you. Except I guess the vast difference in world expectations and ability and knowledge and mythology and world.
There's nothing to stop you from being from Vana'diel or Earth or Universe 616 or the DC Flashpoint World or Earth2 or Alternate US History or The Wheel of Time series or Game of Thrones or....
I hope that illustrates the point? If it doesn't, there's an awesome lot of XIV-specific lore that lends to storytelling. As someone who loves and adores XI, there's no reason to pick up here. It's fantastic (and my XI main is an alt of mine) but it doesn't really do for XIV.