Quote Originally Posted by Sholah View Post
Says who? Maybe my character was on a carriage to Ul'dah because she was coming from Little Ala Mihgo. Maybe someone else's was on a ship to Limsa because they were coming from somewhere else in Eorzea.
This pretty much. My character was a Legacy character and I started ARR on the carriage to Gridania just like most people - this is because those who got the 'Legacy' opening were actually only a small group who had accomplished the special '7th Umbral Era' story in version 1.0 before it shut down (specifically, they had to have passed the Lunar Transmitter boss fight).

Those 1.o characters who didn't were treated story-wise like new players and what they were doing for five years was just handwaved away. It's not a problem to me as this allowed me to work out my character had been injured and rendered amnesiac in the Calamity and had been treated in Ul'dah in the intervening period - after recovering she returned to Gridania to pick up where she left off.

Npcs may say "you're not Eorzean born", but really, who are they to know that? Your character could have really been born and raised there and just spent a lot of time traveling the world, it's entirely up to you.