Why you decided on your race (lore perspective)

[RyuRoots]

Back when I started, I chose Seeker of the Sun Miqo'te since out of all the combinations I tried at the time, the character I created there was by far the one I liked the most of my various attempts. Must've spent hours trying different race and trait permutations! I do still sort of regret not noticing the ability to generate example names which is why Lennara doesn't fit Seeker naming conventions, but I eventually invented some backstory in my head to justify it because I'm a huge nerd and I care about such things.

I would say "I do find Seeker culture interesting though, after playing the game" but that's true of most of the game's sentient races in general (and not just the playable ones) for me.

[Crystallis91]

I was totally on edge about what race I preferred eventually I became more opinionated about what races I would prefer I still have not decided what my number one race is but currently I am a Elezen Wildwood

[Crystallis91]

This here is a list of Races that I prefer over the others so far.
1. Elezen Wildwoods
2. Elezen Duskwights
3. Mi'qote Keepers of the Moon
4. Hyur Highlanders
5. Roegadyn Sea Wolves
6. Roegadyn Hellsguard
I do have my reasons of course because that is the purpose of this thread. For one I simply like the Elezen as a whole basically because they are Elf like and in my opinion more elegant then the other races. I am not a big fan of the Mi'qote but I like the Keepers of the Moon they just to me seem less wild and more serene compared to the Seekers of the Sun and I simply just like the moon. I don't usually like playing as Human characters but I like the Highlanders because they are just all Viking like and I like those kind of characters. I like the Roegadyn as a whole just because they look badass you know and also because they have skin colors that are unique to their race.

[Baithin]

I have a very bad case of alt-itis. I'm a roleplayer, and I like all the races, so.. I want to level a character from every race. xD

My main is a male Seeker of the Sun, who is a Bard, Paladin, and Scholar (all 50).
I also have a female Elezen Duskwight, a Black Mage (50) and soon to be Warrior.
Also a male Highlander, currently a Monk (50) and soon to be Ninja.
Recently made a female Hellsguard, going to be a White Mage and a Summoner.
And a male Dunesfolk is in the works, who will be the gunner class when it comes out. I'll also use him for crafting.

Thankfully I am not crazy enough to want to play as every clan.

And once the expansion hits, I'll be making one of Yugiri's race, too (still betting they're called the Auri). And I eventually want to get every class to 50 between all these characters.

[Grand-Rider]

Gaming for me is a form of escapism and with MMOs also an opportunity for wish fulfilment. To that end I tend to create characters that share a resemblance to myself, or at least an idealised interpretation. Especially when I roleplay.

I chose a Highlander Hyur as physically they appear more rugged and mature than their Midlander counterparts and posses features, bar the males lack of eyebrows, that better resemble my own. Fingers crossed for some male dreadlock styles to match the females.

While Highlanders can hail from just about any where the Ala Mihgans struck a cord with me. Their plight as an exiled people scattered throughout the lands yet maintaining a strong spiritual and martial tradition appealed to my own sensibilities.

I liked the idea of my character pulling themselves up by their bootstraps out of the slums of Ul'dah, overcoming social prejudices to become a world renowned adventurer and artisan.

[Crystallis91]

I respect your decisions whatever they may be and your ideas however you might want to keep in mind that all the players characters are lore wise not from Eorzea so they could pretty much be from anywhere outside the realm of Eorzea which means Ala Mhigo would not be a possible origin place for any character players create.

[Velox]

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This is one of those things where your "character's" story only exists to satisfy the game's need for you to be a stranger. This is so they can justify not having the NPCs recognize you and so that your character's birthplace doesn't conflict with the future story. As far as creating a backstory for your character for your own use, it actually makes more sense to ignore the game rule of "you're an outsider," especially since we know so little of the lands beyond Eorzea (and it would become incredibly confusing to make a story up of why your character left that area, only to have SE re-define that story once those areas are added to the game). Avid RPers would be really affected by something like this.

For example:
"My character was born in the year X comes from the city of Y." 2 years later we get an expansion that explains how Y was destroyed by Garlemald before year X and there was no way you could have ever been born there. Essentially your backstory becomes invalidated and has to be redesigned all over again.


On-topic, I didn't create my character based on any lore or personal preference. I simply chose one based off of the starting stat distribution.

[Crystallis91]

Well I guess we can only hope that we will learn where the Adventurer(Meaning everybody's characters) originated and how it all fits into lore for the game and potentially explain a lot about the Adventurer himself/herself and maybe after the final expansion the creators will inform us what race, clan and gender even potentially the class the Adventurer by canon is.

[Enkidoh]

Well I guess we can only hope that we will learn where the Adventurer(Meaning everybody's characters) originated and how it all fits into lore for the game and potentially explain a lot about the Adventurer himself/herself and maybe after the final expansion the creators will inform us what race, clan and gender even potentially the class the Adventurer by canon is.

Technically this chap is the 'canon character' standing for the player's character - he's appeared in every piece of propaganda and trailer for the game since version 1.0 (which that above image is from - you may notice he and his friends also appear in the banner at the top of this very forum ).

Word of god (from Ferne) stated a long time ago that not only does this Midlander and his friends symbolize the player's own character during trailers and FMV cutscenes, they actually have their own unique independent story, but whether we'll ever see them in the game is another thing. Incidentally his real name is unknown (although officially SE gave him the placeholder name 'Meteor Survivor', but he's been affectionately dubbed 'Derplander' by the community because of the silly faces he pulls, a name that has somewhat stuck. ).

Class wise he was first shown in version 1.0's opening movie starting out in Limsa Lominsa as a GLA (in version 1.0 you could start as any class in any city and were not restricted to the city of your class's Guild), then due to some Echo-travelling shenanigans he changes to ARC, then back to GLA after the Echo scene ends, and by the time of the fall of Dalamud he's trained as a MRD and upgraded to WAR, a Job that he's taken as ever since, even into the recent Heavensward expansion trailer (although he Armoury changes to DRG at the end. ).

[Sakuraluna]

Admittedly I didn't choose miqo solely for the lore. I chose mithra in XI because I've always loved little kitties, anything to do with cats and kittens, so being a cat-person seemed fitting enough. I chose miqo because by the time I started this game I was just so used to being a cat-person that I kind of defaulted to it. I did choose Keeper based on the lore though, because it just seems to fit my personality better than Seekers do.