Au Ra naming conventions are up

This is possibly old news as I don't know when this was posted. But in case people don't know still:

Raen: http://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Raen
Xaela: http://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Xaela

Looks my name fits NEITHER XD I'll have to come up with an RP reason for that because I don't really want to confuse friends with a name change. Anyway, it looks really in depth. I love that Raen went for more classical Japanese and the Xaela tribes actually describe what features/traits they pride in each tribe.

EDIT: this tribe in particular...I laughed but at the same time I find it interesting.

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Ugund: When members of this tribe die, their heads are removed from their bodies and placed in a jar of fermented goat milk. Once the liquid has been drunk by the head (in other words, evaporated), the head is then buried under an anthill so that the tiny workers can carry the spirit to the afterlife. The journey is thought to be a terrible one, the road filled with ghosts of the damned, so ensuring the spirit is drunk helps ease the journey.

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if your going Xaela you can pretend your last name is a tribe that has long been forgotten or appropriated into another tribe. just like what was said in the naming conventions

"The Othardian steppe is a vast region, therefore, every so often, one may come across a Xaela with a surname that is not found on the list of 51. This may mean that they are from a clan that was recently destroyed or absorbed. It may mean that they are of a new tribe that was formed by members leaving another. It may mean they are of a tribe that remained hidden in the northern mountains."

This is very true! Though I'll probably come up with a more traditional name for background information at least. Some of these look too interesting to pass up :)

http://heraldry.sca.org/names/mongol...mes_marta.html
This was a great help for me picking a name for my Xaela.

honestly not a fan of mongolian names ill probably stick with a traditional japanese name for my xaela even if it doesnt match :P

wow, wish there was a TL;DR for the Raen one :/ I read it and still dont see what I could pick. Was considering changing over to male even (eep! only 2 hours to choose!).

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Originally Posted by Inertial

honestly not a fan of mongolian names ill probably stick with a traditional japanese name for my xaela even if it doesnt match :P

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Could make up some background history for your character with that, pretend you were born a Xaela to a Raen family. The only black-scaled AuRa in a tribe of white-scale Raen.

Because of the little tidbit about being able to use other tribe names, I'm going to stick with the one I came up with a couple months ago and just say that my boyfriend and I's characters split off and made their own tribe that they didn't have any interest in expanding.
Which fits, because we don't really play with anyone else but explore/do everything together.

Perfect name:

Lacertilia Suzerain or Despot Squamata (Lizard overlords for both)

Looks like my character's first name fits in nicely (despite the 'r' being replaced with 'L') with the Raen naming conventions for females, but not so much for the surname. Oh well, close enough :P

I'll keep my current name for my Xaela lol

You can find the Naming Conventions at the Lore section of the Forum as well:

Naming Conventions

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Originally Posted by Gildrein

Au Ra Naming Conventions
Before I start, I’d like to bring up an oft-forgotten feature implemented at the release of A Realm Reborn—the Character Creation name generator. The name generator is a great way to see some example of both fore- and surnames that follow the naming conventions for the race & clan you have chosen. There are anywhere from five to ten thousand combinations available in the generator’s database, and I’d highly recommend using the feature if you’re serious about choosing a name that feels authentic.

The Auri naming conventions (as a whole) are similar to those of the Hyur, in that, instead of creating a new language for the race (as was done with the Miqo'te) or taking and tweaking a rule set for an existing Earth language (as was done with the Elezen) or a doing a little bit of both (as was done with the Roegadyn), we decided to use existing Earth names (almost) as-is. I say (almost), because we have taken some liberties with spellings to ensure that some possibly offensive letter combinations are avoided.

So, which Earth languages are we borrowing names from? Well, as most of you have already figured out, the Raen (Yugiri’s clan) borrows their names from Japanese. The second clan—the Xaela—take theirs from Mongolian. However, as is the case with Hyuran names, we have chosen to use names/spellings that slightly different than their modern equivalents. We’ll touch more on that in the detailed descriptions of each clan’s rules.
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