Still no word on Au Ra Naming Conventions?

I was under the impression that they would be revealed in the live letter yesterday. Did I miss something, or did I get my dates wrong? :confused:

All they said was 'End of May'. People of course speculated this meant the live letter.

Nope, still nothing, People are getting understandably antsy due to the fact that we're running out of May, here, but nothing yet.

(We're also now exactly four weeks away from the early access soft-launch of the expansion, which doesn't help.)

Ah, okay. I didn't think I was completely crazy, but apparently assuming the live letter date was a bad idea. I just hope they actually tell us before the end of May instead of waiting for E3. That would leave a lot of people in a frenzy. Thanks guys!

"End of May" by their standards probably means the 31st. :P
Still, I'm annoyed. There's not really a good reason to hold it off so long.

I am sure that Fern is very busy with finalizing translations of Heavensward and such, in all three languages. Since he is also the head lore guy, no doubt this is going to be posted when they can find the time. And they still have over a week.

He said a while ago that the naming conventions were basically done, but he wasn't being allowed to release them.

For the next month and until E3/release, expect infos to be given one at a time, maybe every week. A little like they do for major patches.

Like week 1 : Naming conventions, week 2 : more infos on the crafting mastery, week 3 : harvesting.

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Originally Posted by StarDrake

Nope, still nothing, People are getting understandably antsy due to the fact that we're running out of May, here, but nothing yet.

(We're also now exactly four weeks away from the early access soft-launch of the expansion, which doesn't help.)

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If by "running out" you mean "still 25% left." :p

But, yeah, they were never more specific than "late May." Which, we still have almost all of "late May" left.

I wonder what's with the specific hold up though, if they've had it finalized for so long that is. It's not like giving naming conventions is something super important, heck it's actually really minor, it really only applies to roleplayers.

If I'm correct atleast one reason is to prevent people from just making characters to "hold" names for themselves.

Which is happening anyways, but with non-lore names basically.

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Originally Posted by Dualblade

If I'm correct atleast one reason is to prevent people from just making characters to "hold" names for themselves.

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I assume another reason is to space out the hype.

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Originally Posted by Viridiana

I assume another reason is to space out the hype.

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But who honestly gets that hyped up about Au Ra naming conventions besides roleplayers? It's a very little information (Unless if they plan to do a bit of a lore drop on Au Ra in general before May is over but I'm not getting my hopes up >.>) that applies to what I think is a much smaller fraction of the playerbase who just want to name their character what they want.

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Originally Posted by Grayve

I am sure that Fern is very busy with finalizing translations of Heavensward and such, in all three languages. Since he is also the head lore guy, no doubt this is going to be posted when they can find the time. And they still have over a week.

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Disc was mastered almost a month ago. Pretty sure they're doing final tuning on the version update and possibly the scripts for 3.1 and beyond by now.

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Originally Posted by Samcaesar

But who honestly gets that hyped up about Au Ra naming conventions besides roleplayers?

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And yet we've had how many threads asking for the naming conventions? Heck, I'm not a roleplayer and I'm looking forward to it the same way I look forward to any new lore info.

I'm not really a roleplayer either, but I prefer to have my character's name make sense in-story (instead of being called something like "BBQ Chicken"), which is why I usually just hit random. This time, though, I know there's a proper naming system, so I want to do that... but still nothing.

Most people are guessing JP-styled names for Raen, and MY guesses for Xaela are Hyur(mid & highlander) styled names. Or maybe Hyur/Elezen styled names.

Hmm, I suppose you could still get hyped up about it, but as someone who adores roleplaying and seeing the story in a more immersive manor, having a lore fitting name makes sense unless if the character is built around not living in a more traditional manor. Though, I still hope when we do get naming conventions, seeing as how it wasn't tacked onto the live letter, we get some additional Au Ra lore or something with it.

This is a bit of speculation, taken from my blog

It's a fair guess that Yugiri is going to be the basis of every Raen Au Ra name. The Xaelas are still unknown, so I'll be focusing on the Raen.

Yugiri Mistwalker, [Japanese First Name, Nature related prefix/Verb with -er suffix last name]

Akio Wavestrider

Hikaru Mountaincrusher

Katsu Waterdancer

These are a few examples that I could pull from the “formula”.

Hope this helps!

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Almost, but not quite:

Yugiri Mistwalker

Yu - mist
Giri -cut through
so Yugiri -> Mistwalker

The secondary name is derived from the first, but not quite a direct translation. These are more Doman naming conventions than striclty Au Ra, but I think this is the proper pattern.

Hey everyone,

We were originally aiming to release the Au Ra naming conventions in late May; however, because we are prioritizing the release of Heavensward, we had to push this back a bit. We have definitely not forgotten that everyone is waiting patiently (very patiently) for it!

We'd like to ask for you patience just a little while longer as we work to deliver these to you all!

Soon™, right? :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Zhexos

Hey everyone,

We were originally aiming to release the Au Ra naming conventions in late May; however, because we are prioritizing the release of Heavensward, we had to push this back a bit. We have definitely not forgotten that everyone is waiting patiently (very patiently) for it!

We'd like to ask for you patience just a little while longer as we work to deliver these to you all!

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Any chance you can confirm that we'll get them BEFORE launch? >.>

Maybe I'll get naming conventions for my birthday (17 June)

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Originally Posted by Asheilin

Any chance you can confirm that we'll get them BEFORE launch? >.>

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Originally Posted by Elmoria

Bonjour à tous !

Les conventions des noms d'Ao Ra sont en cours de préparation en ce moment même et seront postées sur le forum très bientôt. :)

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Hello everyone !

The Au Ra naming conventions are being prepared right now and will be posted very soon on the forum.


so don't worry it will come before the EA.

edit for below :
Koji had them ready, the other languages didn't. They had to translate it and translate the game.

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Originally Posted by lololink

Hello everyone !

The Au Ra naming conventions are being prepared right now and will be posted very soon on the forum.


so don't worry it will come before the EA.

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I think you mean soon™...

Either way they've confirmed it won't be "late May," which can only mean "end of May or before Early Access." Not exactly comforting when they said back in March they had them ready and were just waiting for the green light from Yoshi-P to post them...

Edit for above:

And I understand that; Heavensward no doubt has an incredibly long script that has to be translated into 5+ languages, all of which has to be cross-referenced with the other languages to ensure consistency. They probably work like Thal's balls just to keep the 3-month patch cycle consistent, to say nothing of the little tidbits (like naming conventions).

Still, it's just a little dispiriting to be told "late May" and then when late May rolls around have that changed to "soon™"... I understand why, but even so.

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Originally Posted by Asheilin

Any chance you can confirm that we'll get them BEFORE launch? >.>

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Due to preparations for the launch of Heavensward, Au Ra will not be available immediately after launch. We do plan on making them available in a future patch. Please look forward to it.

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With a few weeks to go, you'd think they'd have naming conventions finalized and the post drafted by now.

what is the naming convention?

Not that I'll be changing my name but, It would be great to see them out before release for the RP community especially.

The conventions are finalized, but the Lore localizations are not, and this needs to be completed so they can have ay simultaneous world release ..

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Originally Posted by Cilia

Soon™, right? :rolleyes:

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Originally Posted by Zhexos

Hey everyone,

We were originally aiming to release the Au Ra naming conventions in late May; however, because we are prioritizing the release of Heavensward, we had to push this back a bit. We have definitely not forgotten that everyone is waiting patiently (very patiently) for it!

We'd like to ask for you patience just a little while longer as we work to deliver these to you all!

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What..? That doesn't make any sense at all... "Because we are prioritizing the release of Heavensward, we had to push back a forum topic that would take literally ten minutes to type and is directly related to one of the expansion's biggest features." Buh? Square come on, please. Some of us are on very crowded servers and would like to have our characters ready to use potential fantasia on. Please get this posted ASAP. :\

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Originally Posted by AvalonBright

What..? That doesn't make any sense at all... "Because we are prioritizing the release of Heavensward, we had to push back a forum topic that would take literally ten minutes to type and is directly related to one of the expansion's biggest features." Buh? Square come on, please. Some of us are on very crowded servers and would like to have our characters ready to use potential fantasia on. Please get this posted ASAP. :\

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Ten minutes to type? Try organizing a brand new language for the Xaela, and explaining the naming convention in ten minutes. Then, please translate that into multiple languages so that it actually has the same importance to each of them and doesn't leave the spirit of the race out of them. Yeah "ten minutes" my behind. It's a feat that they even had time to tell us there'd be delays.

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Originally Posted by AvalonBright

What..? That doesn't make any sense at all... "Because we are prioritizing the release of Heavensward, we had to push back a forum topic that would take literally ten minutes to type and is directly related to one of the expansion's biggest features." Buh? Square come on, please. Some of us are on very crowded servers and would like to have our characters ready to use potential fantasia on. Please get this posted ASAP. :\

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Your polite statement has surely given the devs new drive to immediately get things out.

Did they say that they will add a language ? For now only Roe got a language informations, the naming conventions aren't out because they aren't translated in french and german ( and maybe in japanese too, Koji is in charge of the naming conventions I think but if he is working with Oda on these the originals might have been in JP and EN so these are ready ) They focus on finishing the game so that they can be sure it won't be delayed and be ready for EA, if there is an issue it's better to sacrifice naming convention than delaying the game.

For now, we only know that they haven't met the end of May deadline. That just means the naming conventions could show up any time from now to the release. I really think they'll be out any day now, and definitely before the release. People just need to be patient.

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Um, please give SOURCE for that Au Ra quote, so EVERYONE can riot at the right place, else I'm gonna call TROLL. There is no way SE is stupid enough to not have the Race Ready for Launch. EA, too really.

Officially two weeks out from early access and still no naming conventions. :\ I understand it's a big undertaking -- bigger than some realize -- but still. Starting to get antsy over here.

Soon™! Always soon™.

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Originally Posted by Asheilin

Um, please give SOURCE for that Au Ra quote, so EVERYONE can riot at the right place, else I'm gonna call TROLL. There is no way SE is stupid enough to not have the Race Ready for Launch. EA, too really.

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It's already been said that the English ones are ready to go.

We're essentially waiting so they can translate that into the other supported languages.

Stupid for us, I know, but what can you do? :P