A question of origins

[Urielparadox]

I assumed since the oeneing cutscene shows adventureres coming out of the light that we came from the void and are actually a form of summons. Caused by the prayers of the Earzea needing heroes. I We Are Aether Taken form, which is why we are so spiffy and don't die

[KupoKwark]

It would be a strange twist if player characters turned out to be primals, but because we're powered by hydaelin (who is one giant crystal). We don't need outside crystals to sustain us. Wouldn't really make much sense, with Minfilia having the echo as well, but would be interesting.

[Torquil]

Coming from a "foreign land" is a fairly common trope that serves a very specific purpose. The player knows nothing about these lands, it's culture, or it's people. If the character knows nothing about them either (because they're foreign) then it's easy to just have people explain all this to your character and have it make sense. If you're from Eorzea, then it would be harder to justify all these NPCs telling you all this very basic information that any Eorzean would know.

[Alleluia]

I assumed since the oeneing cutscene shows adventureres coming out of the light that we came from the void and are actually a form of summons. Caused by the prayers of the Earzea needing heroes. I We Are Aether Taken form, which is why we are so spiffy and don't die

This is my headcanon, as well. I don't think my character existed before the opening cutscene. When she wakes up on that boat (Limsa FTW), that's her first real moment in the world.

Now, *Regana* (my character) doesn't know this. She thinks she has a history and a family and a place she was born, etc. Specifically, her mom was a Highlander from Ala Mhigo and her father was a Midlander from Ul'dah. Her mother was visiting Ul'dah when the civil war in Ala Mhigo broke out. Then the Garleans occupied and she was left without a home to return to. She met her kind and bookish husband during this time and made a home in Ul'dah, instead. Reg was born shortly after.

Regana remembers how her mother is missing in action after she decided she couldn't bear the plight of her former home without doing something and lent her skills to the Ala Mhigan resistance. And Reg remembers how, as the days turned to months, turned to years, and her mother was still gone, that her father did his best; but they both knew in their bones she was gone for good and he eventually died of illness and heartbreak.

Shortly after, with no other family and no real connections to speak of in the city, Regana left for Limsa Lominsa to get a fresh start in life as an adventurer.

She remembers it all in great detail. It informs her actions and gives her motivation. But, ultimately, none of that actually happened. Not that it will matter, cus I doubt she'll ever realize it.

(And she takes the "foreigner" comments in stride cus they're almost always from people who don't even know her in the first place. And technically she was a foreigner when she started in Limsa, so...)

[Kytrin]

Wow... okay I didn't get a chance to check back on this after my initial post yesterday, so my sincere thanks to you guys for all the great ideas!

Lethorian, I gotta say I really like your idea of us being summoned from another world entirely. That fits well for me as my most recent character is Tails of Vesperia themed, so I can have some fun coming up with her origin story using that.

I've already got a fairly convoluted concept for Riko, so I'll leave that more or less as is.

I also think the ideas of us being summons or created specifically by the Mother Crystal are interesting and worth considering as well. At least if I make a Doman (which is extremely likely once the race is revealed) I have being a refugee to fall on. It just would be nice to have an official Lore answer to this. I've posed the question in the Lore Panel thread, so we'll see what happens there.

[Morningstar1337]

I assumed since the oeneing cutscene shows adventureres coming out of the light that we came from the void and are actually a form of summons. Caused by the prayers of the Earzea needing heroes. I We Are Aether Taken form, which is why we are so spiffy and don't die

I'm intrigued by this theory this needs its own thread.