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RE: Character designing |
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07-25-2013, 08:46 AM
Incoming lore references. Smile

The devs have stated that the Roegadyn definitely had a racial language, though it's dead ("generations of disuse") and lives on only in names (dev post, Roegadyn naming conventions). Miqo'te had a language once as well, back in the fifth umbral era when they came to Eorzea, but it no longer appears to be in use other than in names (dev post, Miqo'te naming conventions).

We also had a thread about this not too long ago where it was discussed and lore references grabbed. The long and short of it is that the lore seems to indicate that while roegadyn and miqo'te definitely had racial languages and others might have, they're dead now and live on only in names. Beyond that, every (player character) race speaks Eorzean. Could you be from somewhere so isolated that you've just started learning the language? Sure: the world's larger than what we see in game, and a lot of it is indeed wilderness -- probably more so post-Calamity. We also know that elezen have a longer lifespan than hyur (main site, elezen racial info), so as Ildur points out, you could have stepped away from the world for a while.

From a psycholinguistic perspective, it'd be tricky to be someone who grew up with no linguistic exposure. The few known case studies of this lend credence to the "magic years" for learning languages; if someone's not exposed to language during that time, they're largely rendered incapable of using it later. There's also some indications that not acquiring this skill also causes significant issues with intellect, though there's a big confound there in that our typical tests of intelligence are heavily tied to linguistic competence.

Buuut there's also the Final Fantasy exemplar of the "wild boy," Gau (FFVI), that you can use. Smile

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Character designing - by AkhutaiAngura - 07-25-2013, 12:15 AM
RE: Character designing - by Xenedra - 07-25-2013, 12:23 AM
RE: Character designing - by Ildur - 07-25-2013, 03:34 AM
RE: Character designing - by FreelanceWizard - 07-25-2013, 08:46 AM

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