Turning on the Fern symbol!

For those of us interested in playing proper Au'ra, would it be possible to get the naming conventions for the new race. It may take me a while to settle on a name I like.

So pretty pretty please with sugar, whipped cream, and a lalafell heart on top? :D

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Originally Posted by Linadae

For those of us interested in playing proper Au'ra, would it be possible to get the naming conventions for the new race. It may take me a while to settle on a name I like.

So pretty pretty please with sugar, whipped cream, and a lalafell heart on top? :D

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I don't get the title of your post. What is the fern symbol and what does it have to do with Au Ra naming conventions?

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Originally Posted by Sylentmana

I don't get the title of your post. What is the fern symbol and what does it have to do with Au Ra naming conventions?

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It's the equivalent of the Bat Signal, but with an ahriman on it.

Fernehalwes is the English localization lead who is on the world lore team and acts as the metatron of head loremaster Banri Oda.

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Originally Posted by Anonymoose

It's the equivalent of the Bat Signal, but with an ahriman on it.

Fernehalwes is the English localization lead who is on the world lore team and acts as the metatron of head loremaster Banri Oda.

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Ah. That makes sense. Thanks. The title is really clever then.

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Originally Posted by Sylentmana

Ah. That makes sense. Thanks. The title is really clever then.

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His forum avatar is also an ahriman :D He's a really cool guy just wished he hung out in the lore forums more.

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Originally Posted by Linadae

His forum avatar is also an ahriman :D He's a really cool guy just wished he hung out in the lore forums more.

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Unfortunately for frequent lore forum posts (but fortunately for pretty much everything else) cool-lore-guy Fernehalwes has been spending a lot more time being professional-translator-guy, special-guest-guy, and all-around-getting-pretty-famous-in-the-FFXIV-community-guy Koji Fox.

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Ec1CoqfhUns/maxresdefault.jpg

"So, then, I told Yoshida-san that I wanted more time to just hang out and wax lore with the forum-goers,
and he made this face like h-yeah, that face. He's doing it again."

Poor Fern... lol getting dragged around the world when all he wants to do is hang out here and chat about ff14 lore.

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Originally Posted by Linadae

Poor Fern... lol getting dragged around the world when all he wants to do is hang out here and chat about ff14 lore.

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Well, poor hypothetical Fernehalwes / Yoshida caption-meme, at least. LOL

In reality, and this is just a guess, I imagine that when you compare only spreadsheets of translated text and back-end team meetings with some of that and going around the world meeting all the people who love your work and rocking out with Soken, the word "promotion" doesn't quite cover it. ("Sleepless promotion" might get halfway there.)

For what it's worth, I know he reads the forums, but I think he's lost the time required to draft posts and get confirmation and approval and see it through to the boards, as I know a few posts he was planning on have slipped through the cracks for now. Even so, I often come across lines in the game that way too specifically give clarification we asked for or reference jokes we've made to think for a second that they're not at least paying attention to us.

I'd count on the Au Ra conventions turning up at some point, though. You can't just leave a race out on the forum's most popular stickies.

When the lore pope moose does not know the answer, you wait for lore god ferne to answer, if he doesn't, you wait for... Hmmm ... You wait for lore god ferne to answer one day x3

Joke aside, considering their race name is in two part, maybe their name itself is in two part too, kind of like miqo'te with the tribe letter if you see what I mean. (hope it's clear enough xD)

Edit: oh wait.. Technically it should be lore god Oda, lore pope Ferne and then lore bishop Moose

Moose isn't a cardinal yet? And I wonder if Yugiri is going to be similar to how the other Au Ra are going to be named. I kind of hope not though.

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Originally Posted by Mirron

Moose isn't a cardinal yet? And I wonder if Yugiri is going to be similar to how the other Au Ra are going to be named. I kind of hope not though.

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I doubt it. Yugiri Mistwalker is more of a Doman name, one she probably took up to help hide what she actually was under her hood and mask.

I doubt it as well, but at the same time presumably the Au Ra are also from Doma, or at least the ones we're playing. So it wouldn't surprise me too much.

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Originally Posted by Mirron

I doubt it as well, but at the same time presumably the Au Ra are also from Doma, or at least the ones we're playing. So it wouldn't surprise me too much.

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Well, the Au Ra themselves are actually from Othard, or however you spell it.

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Originally Posted by TheodoreMcIntyre

Well, the Au Ra themselves are actually from Othard, or however you spell it.

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Doma is in Othard.

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Originally Posted by Mirron

I doubt it as well, but at the same time presumably the Au Ra are also from Doma, or at least the ones we're playing. So it wouldn't surprise me too much.

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If that's the case, we might be able to piece together some of the naming conventions using all the Doman names we've encountered so far.

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Originally Posted by WellFooled

If that's the case, we might be able to piece together some of the naming conventions using all the Doman names we've encountered so far.

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We could get a good idea of Doman naming conventions, yeah. However, the Au Ra will very likely have different conventions from the Doman Hyur. They may be from the same continent but we have to remember each race has they're own history and culture.

I'd also doubt that Yugiri strictly ties into general Au Ra names, for reasons others already covered. I'm also willing to wager that there probably won't be any apostrophes involved like the miqo'te have. I've noticed a lot of people writing it as "Au'ra" when it's not, it was shown as two separate words "Au Ra", no apostrophe.

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Originally Posted by Mirron

Moose isn't a cardinal yet? And I wonder if Yugiri is going to be similar to how the other Au Ra are going to be named. I kind of hope not though.

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Ah yes indeed, a cardinal he is u_u

I hope they're not named like that, it'd be kinda boring :/

I suppose a purely plausible explanation would be that Yugiri was simply raised by Hyur's and that's why she has the name she does. I only brought her up because she's the only one we know of so far, and most NPC's seem to use the same naming convention of their race in general.

I suppose it's also possible she's using a fake name, but that seems less plausible.

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Originally Posted by Myranda

...I've noticed a lot of people writing it as "Au'ra" when it's not, it was shown as two separate words "Au Ra", no apostrophe...

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Likely then, they're actually a subspecies of Gojira / Godzilla. Au Ra ==> Gold Radium ==> The Golden ones with Radioactive Breath.

What?

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Originally Posted by Wadoka

Likely then, they're actually a subspecies of Gojira / Godzilla. Au Ra ==> Gold Radium ==> The Golden ones with Radioactive Breath.

What?

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And they call their babies Godzuki?

double what? XD

I'd love to see the conventions by 2.5 so we have lots of time to figure out the Au Ra name we want

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Originally Posted by Mirron

Moose isn't a cardinal yet? And I wonder if Yugiri is going to be similar to how the other Au Ra are going to be named. I kind of hope not though.

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Yugiri seems like a Doman name and not an Au-Ra name. Maybe they don't have naming conventiuons