How Many Role Players Ignore That We Are From Another Land?

[Kacho_Nacho]

I do. It just made more sense to me someone from Eorzea would be more committed to protecting it than an outsider.

I also don't like the fact that we know nothing about our homeland(s). Who were our families? What are our religious beliefs?

I just decided my characters were from one of the countries we know about. Who else does this?

[Hasrat]

Best part about being Duskwight. Nobody knows where the fuck we're from.

[Kacho_Nacho]

Best part about being Duskwight. Nobody knows where the fuck we're from.

*nods*

One of the reasons I like the Duskwight is because of that. My very first character was a Duskwight on Faerie.

[Gula]

I think of it as something easy to write for people who are indeed fresh to XIV's story and world. My RP characters have a backstory, but I choose to ignore the MSQ altogether because their lives are not the lives of the WoL. The story is more about the world around the WoL and he/she is just helping out because people are helpless babies otherwise with exception far in between. The people writing scenarios in the office are not the same kind of team that writes the 100 branching paths of Bioware games or VNs. Keep it simple.

Best part about being Duskwight. Nobody knows where the fuck we're from.

Cave people and criminals.

[Caitlyn]

Best part about being Duskwight. Nobody knows where the fuck we're from.

Same to Raen. Xaela got their 51 tribes in the Azim Steppe. Raen are spread all over the place. Except those who lives under the sea in a pineapp... eh... Sui-No-Sato.
Its kinda sad, that there nothing like a "home" for most races. I would like to see the Dunesvolk homeland. In the first lore book there was a part which says, that those Lalafell are living on big creatures in the desert ^^.

I would also like to see other kinds of culture or religions (or even other naming conventions). Look at Goetsu for example. He is definitely a Roegadyn, but he looks different and doesnt have a typical Roegadyn name. Or Krile. Or Hilda.

[Iscah]

I would also like to see other kinds of culture or religions (or even other naming conventions). Look at Goetsu for example. He is definitely a Roegadyn, but he looks different and doesnt have a typical Roegadyn name. Or Krile. Or Hilda.

All the Far Eastern Roegadyn (and Hyurans) follow the same Japanese naming pattern as Raen Au Ra. Gosetsu doesn’t stand out.

And Hilda is following normal Midlander naming rules - as are other Hyuran Ishgardians like Joye and Symme. It doesn’t matter that the majority of the population have fancy pseudo-French names - those are Elezen names only, and Hyurans don’t use them.

Krile is explained as having been adopted, so she doesn’t follow Lalafell naming tradition (although apparently her name is Kururu in Japanese, but as it’s a reference to another game they’ve kept the equivalent translation over the more appropriate original).

[lycropath]

Isn't it ambiguous that we are from another land or just returning from a trip elsewhere?

[ObsidianFire]

As far as I know, we are coming to Eorzea from somewhere after not being in Eorzea for some time. That could be anything from going on a business trip while the realm rebuilds to coming to Eorzea for the first time. Other then traveling to your starting city-state of choice and choosing to be an adventerer, there's basically nothing said about the WoL's past in-game.

[kidalutz]

As far as I know, we are coming to Eorzea from somewhere after not being in Eorzea for some time. That could be anything from going on a business trip while the realm rebuilds to coming to Eorzea for the first time. Other then traveling to your starting city-state of choice and choosing to be an adventerer, there's basically nothing said about the WoL's past in-game.

Actually, it is shown right in the very first ARR Cutscene we are one of the four warriors of light. This gets explained a bit more during the coils of Bahamut raids where we discover that Louisoix sent the Warriors of Light five years into the future where they appeared in a forest with no memory of that past but still had the desire to do good in the world after once again seeing the great evils loose in the world. You farther have one of THE GREATEST things revealed as to what ended Bahamuts rage.

[SannaR]

Isn't that cutscene only for legacy characters though? As non legacy characters seem to wake up from the hear think feel "dream" on the wagon IIRC.