Alright, so I've finally settled down to start learning lore for FFXIV and get a character established so I can begin rping on balmung. First step I figure? Lets learn about the race we chose.
Months ago I started playing with a friend on a completely different server and only recently decided to move over to try my hand at RP since I enjoy tabletop rp (dnd, ect.) quite a bit. I had made a Xaela Au'ra character, and found an online name generator for him to get him a good name... or so I thought.Â
The name it gave me?
Kiyokage Mizuhiki
The naming convention for Xaela?
Mongolian.
So now here I am, with my Xaela Samurai in game, staring at this glaringly obviously wrong name, debating... do I drink the fantasia and just switch over to a Raen? (Which I'd rather not do, I rather enjoy how he looks) - Do I pay for a name change? (Also would rather not throw away money on this)
Or do I find a reason for his name to be what it is? Raised by someone not of his race? Maybe. That would be one way to explain it - but I can't decide if that feels... handwavey or not. Part of me feels like that might be stretching it too much, while another part of me says "don't be silly, that's fine, orphans aren't uncommon".
What do you guys think? Do you have any suggestions?
One final question:
Warrior, or Samurai for class RP? I haven't read much into it yet, but I do know apparently it's faux pas to rp a blackmage, so I don't know about the other classes yet.
Thanks!
Months ago I started playing with a friend on a completely different server and only recently decided to move over to try my hand at RP since I enjoy tabletop rp (dnd, ect.) quite a bit. I had made a Xaela Au'ra character, and found an online name generator for him to get him a good name... or so I thought.Â
The name it gave me?
Kiyokage Mizuhiki
The naming convention for Xaela?
Mongolian.
So now here I am, with my Xaela Samurai in game, staring at this glaringly obviously wrong name, debating... do I drink the fantasia and just switch over to a Raen? (Which I'd rather not do, I rather enjoy how he looks) - Do I pay for a name change? (Also would rather not throw away money on this)
Or do I find a reason for his name to be what it is? Raised by someone not of his race? Maybe. That would be one way to explain it - but I can't decide if that feels... handwavey or not. Part of me feels like that might be stretching it too much, while another part of me says "don't be silly, that's fine, orphans aren't uncommon".
What do you guys think? Do you have any suggestions?
One final question:
Warrior, or Samurai for class RP? I haven't read much into it yet, but I do know apparently it's faux pas to rp a blackmage, so I don't know about the other classes yet.
Thanks!
