(05-11-2017, 01:25 AM)Mao Wrote: Greetings and salutations! I transferred to Balmung not too long ago, and now I'm ready to begin creating my first character. I'm not new to roleplay-- though, this is my first time roleplaying in an mmo. There's so much lore to remember it's sort of intimidating.
Firstly, I've been stuck on names. Sources for 15th century mongolian names seem to be limited. Would Noyonjin be acceptable? Since Noyon = prince, and jin is one of the modifiers, I was going for something along the lines of "Of a prince." Is that too far of a stretch?
I know that I want my Xaela to come from an original tribe. How the heck do I go about creating a name for one of those? Help? Furthermore, are player-created tribes frowned upon in the community?
Are Xaela familiar with magic? It doesn't seem like any of the tribes are affiliated with anything of the like.
Finally, are there any goodreads to help get me better versed in Au Ra lore?
Any tips or recommendations about anything would be appreciated! Thank you in advance for your help. I look forward to meeting everyone!
1. I don't think anyone is going to get picky about Xaela names. As you said, they're pretty hard to get totally right, and very few people are even going to know if it's wrong. If you really, really want to be accurate, there's always the name generator in character creation, but I think that makes you lose out on personalization.
2. I'm not sure how the majority of the community feels about original tribes, but I could see it putting at least a few people off. As for a name, I'd just look into Mongolian family names and take some inspiration from those.
3. Magic in some form is pretty widespread. There's no reason Xaela wouldn't have some kind of magic, but it almost certainly wouldn't be exactly the same as the sorts common in Eorzea. The one example we have of Far Eastern magic is ninjutsu, so you could look at the lore of that for inspiration. Or you could just have a variety of conjury, since Elementals exist everywhere and in everything.
4. There isn't a ton of Auri lore outside of Xaela tribe names, but I'm sure Sounsyy will show up and post her compilation very soon if she has one. Otherwise, there's the information posted on the OF, and what's written on their page in the lore book if you can find a scan of it.
