A question of origins

[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...)