Still no word on Au Ra Naming Conventions?

[Samcaesar]

On Native Americans: Hahahaa. Pls no. Not again.


On topic! I'd adore Russian influenced names or maybe something not even from Eurasia just to throw us for a fun little spin. Could you imagine like.. Australian Aboriginal naming patterns?!

[Terrini]

I'm thinking the best thing that SE can do right now is set a date. If they say the 18th right now, I'll be irritated, but happy to have a date. If it's later that that, NO ONE will be able to be appeased. If it is on the 18th with no announcement to say it will be, people with just be stewing their irritation.

[KarstenS]

For the Raen some pieces of informations got relevated some time ago. So I think the name of my prepared placeholder kitty will be ok and its close to ready for Heavensward.

[Cilia]

I'm thinking the best thing that SE can do right now is set a date. If they say the 18th right now, I'll be irritated, but happy to have a date. If it's later that that, NO ONE will be able to be appeased. If it is on the 18th with no announcement to say it will be, people with just be stewing their irritation.

Totes in agreement. The most frustrating thing isn't that we don't have them, but that we don't have anything but the loathed soon™. People can handle disappointment, they can handle being let down. For the most part, the reaction to the soon™ was pretty mature. A bit sarcastic (what else did you expect), but mature. That said, we've waited patiently for months for a maybe sort of long-ish forum post or two. There is no excuse for this - the Japanese soon™ post admitted it's on them.

That said, there is no reason they shouldn't have such a vital piece of supplementary web material finished a week before EA. I understand storyline stuff being out of players' control, and that there is an extremely long script in Heavensward that has to be faithfully translated into 5 or so languages. Even so, players should have information on a playable race (beyond vague outlines of their societies) more than a week before the content goes live.

Honestly, I'm not expecting them to be released before EA or maybe even launch. Players will figure them out based on RNG (maybe) or they'll be included in the LftPL to pad out time.

[Kytrin]

I suppose that if absolutely all ELSE fails, and they decide to completely screw us over on releasing the names in any kind of timely fashion, then those of us who have early access can play with the character generator to see what kinds of random names pop up and post those. They've confirmed the Au Ra will be available on the 19th so the random name generator HAS to be programmed by then. It won't have any of the lore or anything, but at the very least people will get an idea of what the names should be like.

[Cilia]

They've already kinda sorta screwed us over on giving the names and more detailed social information in a timely fashion...

I'm pretty sure they already have them translated and ready to go across all languages, but they just aren't releasing it to build hype, pad out the LftPL, and/or they just don't want to release the information prior to launch.

I'll wait until Wednesday, that gives them a week before launch proper. If we still don't have them by then, and go into EA having to figure it out for ourselves based on the RNG, there just might be a rant from the saltiest, most foulmouthed Deputy Postmoogle ever...

[Kytrin]

They've already kinda sorta screwed us over on giving the names and more detailed social information in a timely fashion...

I'm pretty sure they already have them translated and ready to go across all languages, but they just aren't releasing it to build hype, pad out the LftPL, and/or they just don't want to release the information prior to launch.

I'll wait until Wednesday, that gives them a week before launch proper. If we still don't have them by then, and go into EA having to figure it out for ourselves based on the RNG, there just might be a rant from the saltiest, most foulmouthed Deputy Postmoogle ever...

I may join you for that rant... I'm having to bite my tongue as it is.

[myahele]

At least we have an idea what Raen naming convention is: Old/Ancient Japanese names or words. Since they have a demon motif then perhaps they're named after Japanese demons?

[Cilia]

At least we have an idea what Raen naming convention is: Old/Ancient Japanese names or words. Since they have a demon motif then perhaps they're named after Japanese demons?

Popular theory is that the Raen just have Japanese names, or ([Japanese name] [Nounverb(er)]) names since they're from Doma (Hydaelyn!Japan); all named Doman characters have these sorts of names (Yugiri Mistwalker, Oboro Moonrise, Tsubame Sunrise, Karasu Redbeak).

Then again, all named Doman characters thus far are ninja, so they could be using pseudonyms...

That just means, in addition to the massive number of the Highwind clan already wandering around, we're about to see a mass exodus of the Kisaragi clan into Eorzea, y'know! (If I do decide to make a Raen, I'll be a Mutsuki just to kupo with people.)

[Kairei]

A more detailed theory of Raen naming conventions is that the first name is Japanese, then the second name is a word that has the basic meaning of the first name. It has checked out with all examples we have of Doman names so far, but like Cilia said, those could just be Ninja names.