Au Ra Naming Assistance

[Azraela Moirai]

Great and helpful thread, I do have a question however, I am semi new to RP and I love the Au Ra race, however this thread brought up a question for me. Would I be kind of shunned by serious RP players if I chose to go with a name from  say a Greek, Latin decent? I would really love to get in to some good RP sessions and story lines but I don't want people to shy away because my name is not lore friendly enough I guess. I would sooner choose a different race that I could get away with a more common of name. Thank you for any feedback.

[Martiallais]

Great and helpful thread, I do have a question however, I am semi new to RP and I love the Au Ra race, however this thread brought up a question for me. Would I be kind of shunned by serious RP players if I chose to go with a name from  say a Greek, Latin decent? I would really love to get in to some good RP sessions and story lines but I don't want people to shy away because my name is not lore friendly enough I guess. I would sooner choose a different race that I could get away with a more common of name. Thank you for any feedback.

 

There's always reasons why characters deviate from the usual naming conventions and often these can be used to help show/say something about the character. It's a part of their story after all! As long as it's explained well when it comes up (maybe an alias or some other reason) most folks will shrug/nod and go along with it.

 

Like most everything in RP, it's all in the presentation.

 

Sure there's bound to be some who disagree with straying from the conventions, but there are enough RPers on the server that you'll be able to find folks who will mesh with/accept what you're looking to do.

[allgivenover]

Great and helpful thread, I do have a question however, I am semi new to RP and I love the Au Ra race, however this thread brought up a question for me. Would I be kind of shunned by serious RP players if I chose to go with a name from  say a Greek, Latin decent? I would really love to get in to some good RP sessions and story lines but I don't want people to shy away because my name is not lore friendly enough I guess. I would sooner choose a different race that I could get away with a more common of name. Thank you for any feedback.

 

Just write a reason for it and no one will care.

[D'aito Kuji]

There's plenty of people who come to a new land and decide (or it's decided for them) that their names are too difficult to pronounce or don't work with the dominant language and are then changed.  There's no doubt that a few Au Ra would do such a thing.

[Seraphine Felstar]

The Au Ra I created is supposed to have a quirky personality and is a bit of an outsider, so its within the scope of the character to be different. She decided to go with a nickname that is easier for Eorzeans to remember and pronounce. However, I did give her a traditional birth name on her character sheet so she does have one that adheres to lore if it happens to come up in RP. I'd say if you have a good reason for it ICly then it shouldn't be a problem.

[D'aito Kuji]

Here's a bit of fun I stumbled on while research for the "perfect" lore compliant Raen name.

 

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/242051-Au-Ra-Raen-name-generator-translation

 

It basically lists off many of the names from the character generator and what they mean.  I found it to be incredibly helpful.

[Gurren Dai]

This is going to be super helpful for naming my Raen. I may make a Xaela too, but first I need to get past all of these connection issues! D:

[WorstRPerEver]

I'm trying to come up with a Raen surname that has something to do with songs/singing. Ideally, something about the sun or fire could be included, but after mashing some words through Google Translate, I've come to the conclusion that the result would be kind of clunky.

 

So far all my research has gotten me is that it's going to have "uta" (which means song or poem, if Google is correct) somewhere in there.