A question of origins

[Sagittarian]

I went with the traveller from an alternate world background myself since I figure no matter how many locations you visit in the world you will always be "new".
Either that or they are actually a fugitive who changed their identity and is just pretending they are new.... >.>

[Jinrya-Geki]

I am glad I am not from Eorzea. It's full of morons, cowards, backstabbers, and ruled by incompetents.

[Morningstar1337]

Now Then my character's back-story (that I totally didn't just make up on the spot/sarcasm). Note that I'm not a legacy player but this is tied to the calamity and the Warriors of 1.0.

The Calamity was an event that changed the landscape of Eorzea. During the event here was a battle at Cateneau, several warriors that were blessed by powers of light to illuminate the darkness. Dalamud hung over the planet like a sword hung above a throne by naught but hair. And the sword was poised to cleave.

Louisoux Levellier, an Elezen sage, stood forth with a daring but foolish plan to summon the Twelve to stop the fallen moon. But the elder Primal Bahamut emerged from the lesser moon and sought to reduce Carteneau and the combatants to ash, followed by the rest of Hydealyn.

The sage went through with his plan hoping that the 12 deities can fetter the dragon, but Bahamut proved too strong for them in thier incomplete state. The aether around the area grew in excess and became unstable. Louisoux focused his will on the power of one or the twelve and use it to save the Warriors of Light. The power he invoked was that of Althyk, surveyor of change and god of space and time.

The warriors of Light found themselves dissipating into the aether before Bahamut's ultimate attack hits them, leaving only Louisoux to face his demise.

The instability of the aether followed by the use of powers of time and space caused repercussions thought out history. the Sixth Umbral Era began with no knowledge of the missing warriors.

Elsewhere in nearby Thanalan, southeast of the Highbridge, a mysterious form of Aether appears, incomplete but still growing. in the coming years, the identities of the Warriors of Light were competently removed from history. people report feeling that they had a relative, a son or daughter, a brother or sister, a mother or father, but they could not remember for all they knew it was all in their imaginations, as if they never exist.

5 years later and the form of aether was completely materialized, it took a shape of a little Lalafell girl. Strange in appearance and without knowledge of self and surroundings. She spent the next few months learning of the desert, picking up some speech from passers-by she observed from a distance and having strange dreams of the past. Dreams that felt familiar to her despite that she didn't remember any of the events dreams that confuse her at every turn. Then one day she noticed a carriage on its way to Ul'dah...

Legit back-story or shameless Mary Sue fanfic that spits in the face of lore and those that played Legacy? You decide

[Empressia]

Good, i don't need peeps to know my birth city is the Garlean Empire capital city and my toon snuggling out to Eorzea in a grand scheme to subdue Eorzean through "not so militaristic" conquest campaign!

[myahele]

In the opening or at the very least near the beginning the mother crystal is talking to "you" but you also see a roegadyn male (?) and I think a Lalafel in that dimension too and head towards the crystal the same way we do.

I kinda like the theory that the PC is somehow "possessed" as they were sleeping; hence the memory loss

[Myranda]

I also recall that references to Carteneau refer to adventurers (and specifically the Warriors of Light) as taking up the fight to defend these lands "even though they are not their own" or something to that effect. Might try looking even as early as the Lv15-ish cutscenes to find NPC text in this vein, it's definitely not just from the newer patches.

[Kyan]

I also recall that references to Carteneau refer to adventurers (and specifically the Warriors of Light) as taking up the fight to defend these lands "even though they are not their own" or something to that effect. Might try looking even as early as the Lv15-ish cutscenes to find NPC text in this vein, it's definitely not just from the newer patches.

Yes, true that. I revisited a lot of cutscenes in the inn room, but it is probably dialogue text that isn't in a cutscene that I am thinking of! *madly scours xivdb quest dialogue text...*

[Sapphic]

But even from 1.0 your character was from ouside Eorzea. Maybe they left it obtuse to allow you to create your own backstory rather than it being set in stone.

[Toranja]

I am Gaius' illegitimate son. He just doesn't know it yet.

[Velox]

I just ignore most of the NPC references of being a stranger to Eorzea. I understand the need for story continuity, but from a RP standpoint I don't like being forced to be an outsider (just creates unneeded limitations). Even if my character wasn't always an adventurer, I still want him to be an Eorzean native.