Rule one of rp: there will always be haters.
It doesn't matter whether you stick like glue to the conventions or lore or whatever -- someone will always find something to make fun of or dislike in your rp, your writing, your whatever. Learn early how to use it for your benefit or ignore it.
THAT SAID. The conventions only apply if your character is from a totally traditional group. I had Zhi be raised by her ma in Limsa as a bastard with her surname being her job. Her ma was estranged from her parents, so Zhi never took on the family name, and is three generations removed from tribal keepers.
I mean, have you ever gone up to someone who looks like a certain ethnicity and asked why their name doesn't match what you think it should? Parents name their kids wild things all the time, not to mention some kids hate their names and change it. Your character doesn't need to be raised by hyurs to wind up with a hyur name. Plus, it opens up all sorts of rp possibilities (I haven't personally seen a character so ashamed of his/her heritage that he or she changed it to match a "better" race, but oh lawdy that would be a fun one).
It doesn't matter whether you stick like glue to the conventions or lore or whatever -- someone will always find something to make fun of or dislike in your rp, your writing, your whatever. Learn early how to use it for your benefit or ignore it.
THAT SAID. The conventions only apply if your character is from a totally traditional group. I had Zhi be raised by her ma in Limsa as a bastard with her surname being her job. Her ma was estranged from her parents, so Zhi never took on the family name, and is three generations removed from tribal keepers.
I mean, have you ever gone up to someone who looks like a certain ethnicity and asked why their name doesn't match what you think it should? Parents name their kids wild things all the time, not to mention some kids hate their names and change it. Your character doesn't need to be raised by hyurs to wind up with a hyur name. Plus, it opens up all sorts of rp possibilities (I haven't personally seen a character so ashamed of his/her heritage that he or she changed it to match a "better" race, but oh lawdy that would be a fun one).
