If Able, Would You Change Your Name To Meet Racial Conventions?

[jwang]

I won't be changing my name. Lalafell standard names are too silly for me to use, so I'll be sticking with the ones I chose out of random name generators.

[Yrusama]

I'm torn. . . . I like these naming conventions, and they fit my Hyur quite well, plus the name I chose has a very personal meaning as they're both "nicknames" of two real life men who I find fascinating for different reasons. My trouble starts with experiencing really unexpected joy while toying with a male Miqo'te character. Didn't expect I'd like them so much, but can't see my current name fitting my character, in case I do take the hormones and become a member of the feline family .___. Very attached to my name, plus friends call me Nunu which is cute and I'd feel bad for changing it. . . .

I can already see myself sitting 2 hours at least with the character creation open once we get to the point of actually changing our chars permanently >.<

Change race, or don't change race. . . . change name, or don't change name /agony

I know! I'm so torn right now, because I've been a Hume named Yru for almost 8.5 years! I guess we'll see how we feel when ARR finally comes out.

[Kayokane]

I'm planning on changing my name to Aluena Mahri as a keeper of the Moon, and any Seeker who becomes close friends with her call her "Luna" much to her discontent (that is of course assuming she becomes friends with any :3)

[Khira]

I'm totally disappointed (honestly I'm furious!) that this kind of lore is revealed at the release of the 2.0 version of a game I played for 2 years. I always liked to role play with my characters since ffxi (more then collecting rare/ex gear I have to say) and now my character is a nonsense in role playing terms. And I wasted time studing ffxi mithra names to create a good name. Thank you for ruining my mood today and my game experience!
Khira Nurhiyo Seeker of the sun (or maybe not).

[Nayto]

I'm totally disappointed (honestly I'm furious!) that this kind of lore is revealed at the release of the 2.0 version of a game I played for 2 years. I always liked to role play with my characters since ffxi (more then collecting rare/ex gear I have to say) and now my character is a nonsense in role playing terms. And I wasted time studing ffxi mithra names to create a good name. Thank you for ruining my mood today and my game experience!
Khira Nurhiyo Seeker of the sun (or maybe not).

Look at it this way... it's better late than never.

[Yrusama]

I'm totally disappointed (honestly I'm furious!) that this kind of lore is revealed at the release of the 2.0 version of a game I played for 2 years. I always liked to role play with my characters since ffxi (more then collecting rare/ex gear I have to say) and now my character is a nonsense in role playing terms. And I wasted time studing ffxi mithra names to create a good name. Thank you for ruining my mood today and my game experience!
Khira Nurhiyo Seeker of the sun (or maybe not).

What do you mean, nonsense? You have the aitches, and your first name is only two syllables! A quick swap to Keeper of the Moon and you're perfectly fit in the game's lore! I don't know how much of a backstory you created, or whether it's dependent on you being a Seeker of the Sun, but maybe you can write in that you're a halfbreed that takes after the Sunseeker but is named as a Moonkeeper.

[Enkidoh]

I'm totally disappointed (honestly I'm furious!) that this kind of lore is revealed at the release of the 2.0 version of a game I played for 2 years. I always liked to role play with my characters since ffxi (more then collecting rare/ex gear I have to say) and now my character is a nonsense in role playing terms. And I wasted time studing ffxi mithra names to create a good name. Thank you for ruining my mood today and my game experience!
Khira Nurhiyo Seeker of the sun (or maybe not).

Haha, yeah, after reading the threads in this section I'm kind of feeling the same - but I guess that was just symbolic of the giant mess the original game launched as - there was so little lore revealed we had to make our own (and as it turns out, inaccurate) conclusions on many points of Eorzea's backstory (remember when players thought Gaius was called 'Zulvaan'? ).

Still, I'd noticed a few things about miqo'te and elezen names when playing the original game for developing my character's backstory which turned out to be reasonably accurate actually to how the naming conventions actually are (although I got the Seekers of the Sun and Keepers of the Moon mixed up! ).

Ah well, I'm going to keep Enki's name as is in ARR (She's a Seeker of the Sun who grew up in Ala Mhigo, lost her parents when the city fell to the Empire, fled, and ended up in Ul'dah where she was adopted by wildwood elezen parents - hence she took their surname of 'Roux' ).

As for her first name, it's easy enough to just say that her birth name is really 'E'nkidoh' but she normally deletes the apostrophe for simplicity's sake (after all, she usually just prefers to be called 'Enki' instead of her full name anyway)

Anyway, thanks for the info Ferne!

[Forgo]

lol I like my charature's name...its the same as my ffxi chara from back in the day and I plan to keep it with lore about he got to Eorzea from Vana'del thourgh..say the maws? O.o lol

[Myranda]

I'm totally disappointed (honestly I'm furious!) that this kind of lore is revealed at the release of the 2.0 version of a game I played for 2 years. I always liked to role play with my characters since ffxi (more then collecting rare/ex gear I have to say) and now my character is a nonsense in role playing terms. And I wasted time studing ffxi mithra names to create a good name. Thank you for ruining my mood today and my game experience!
Khira Nurhiyo Seeker of the sun (or maybe not).

What do you mean, nonsense? You have the aitches, and your first name is only two syllables! A quick swap to Keeper of the Moon and you're perfectly fit in the game's lore! I don't know how much of a backstory you created, or whether it's dependent on you being a Seeker of the Sun, but maybe you can write in that you're a halfbreed that takes after the Sunseeker but is named as a Moonkeeper.

Or just put an apostrophe in to make K'hira and it could still work as a Sunseeker. Nurhiyo might be considered long for the name of the father, but maybe not unheard of. Since the apostrophes don't actually indicate a stop, the pronunciation would also be intact. If it's still a concern, what you could do is strip out the i and make it Nurhyo which using the rules for miqo'te h's would make it only two syllables and everything's good.

[Yrusama]

As for her first name, it's easy enough to just say that her birth name is really 'E'nkidoh' but she normally deletes the apostrophe for simplicity's sake (after all, she usually just prefers to be called 'Enki' instead of her full name anyway)

When you think about it, a lot of these naming conventions depend on the notion that Miqo'te had a written language for centuries, when really they seem a little more nomadic than that. None of the city-states were founded by Miqo'te, so I wonder how many have settled permanently, especially the Keepers of the Moon. Sort of hard to keep writing materials around if you're moving all the time.

Edit: To clarify, an apostrophe is something that's only seen on paper, never spoken aloud. Perhaps in the example of "Okhi'a Nbolo" they simply added the A sound to Okhi, resulting in "Okhia", but when given an alphabet to work with opted to apply the apostrophe for clarity's sake.