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..Â
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.Â
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..Â
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.Â
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.Â
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..Â
or he's another abducted an they are sold to the same buyer.Â
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.Â
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..Â
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..Â
Some key things I do want to her in her current self some of this would be reflective of her past of course.
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
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..Â
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.Â
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..Â
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.Â
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.Â
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..Â
or he's another abducted an they are sold to the same buyer.Â
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.Â
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..Â
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..Â
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..Â
- 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 EmpireÂ
- 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.Â
- 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.Â
- 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.Â
- 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.)Â
- One idea linked to her ptsd I'm toying with is a bit of duality to her personality.
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