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

[Anonymoose]

The way I've always phrased it to people asking about it is:

It is canon that (everyone assumes that) you are a foreigner to Eorzea (but how would they know?).

tl;dr Yeah, it's true that Eorzeans believes that, but sometimes Eorzeans are wrong. Do what you want. They left that door cracked on purpose.

[Fenral]

The one W' tribe member I've found also happens to be well-tanned and blonde, so I've taken to a headcanon that there's a tribe of migratory surfer cats chasing the best waves along the coast of Vylbrand.



It has yet to be disproven, at least.

[MrThinker]

The one W' tribe member I've found also happens to be well-tanned and blonde, so I've taken to a headcanon that there's a tribe of migratory surfer cats chasing the best waves along the coast of Vylbrand.



It has yet to be disproven, at least.

Fun fact: There are W' clan members in the alchemist class quests for ARR. Both are what I would call 'tanned' but one has pink hair, and the other has red. Not that this proves or disproves anything :P

[MaethusXion]

Originally I didn't have much of a history for my characters, but they started getting more developed after the first Encyclopaedia was released. I kinda called it that the Miqo'te X Tribe was in Ala Mhigo, cause my alt (X'Talo) was originally a survivor from an X Tribe Settlement pre-Stormblood... and then the RDM Quest Giver is from the Ala Mhigan X Tribes...

Though there's a pretty good chance that her history is gonna get retconned once I get my hands on the Benchmark and Hrothgar. I'm only disappointed that the Keepers don't have more feral/wild looking options right now...

[Cilia]

It's ambiguous as to whether the Warrior of Light is first journeying to Eorzea, or simply returning from a trip abroad. Or perhaps emigrating from one city-state to another.

Me? Well, I deliberately went with the Haragin tribe because their quirky custom is pretty, ah, tame, and it also provides an adventure hook.

[DPZ2]

Of more interest, from the point of view of "WoL finding themselves in Eorzea. Again" -- the descent into the Howling Eye is preceded by a certain airship captain's memories of your character gifting them with goggles at least 10 years prior to current time. This scene is experienced by 1.0 and 2.0 players alike, and is pretty aetheric in nature.

[ObsidianFire]

That scene is a bit weird because we know that's not how Cid got to Eorzea in the first place. As far as we are able to tell, that scene is a metaphor for the WoL somehow fixing Cid's memories with the Echo.

[Kytrin]

I circumvented that with my main by giving her a backstory where she grew up essentially a gypsy along with a number of other refugees displaced from their village in Othard who turned mercenary. And basically is from everywhere and nowhere at once. The entire reason she got into adventuring was because of the decline of mercenary work and her desire to support her very eclectic clan. So she can legitimately say that she's both familiar with a place and a stranger at the same time.

[Grayve]

I went with the classic “fell of a boat and can’t quite recall her homeland”.

[Gemina]

Everything is set up so you can develop whatever lore you want for your character prior to arriving to the city state of your choice. Your character's background can be rooted in Eorzea, the far east, Garlemald, Thaivnair, or not even be native to this star if you please. The only conflict with that last one is Midgarsormr refers to you as "child of man", which basically means you were indeed born on Hydaelyn. And I don't know about you guys, I'm not entering into arguments with the King of Kings.

As for being sensitive to the aether, all this really says to me is that you have been away from Eorzea for quite some time. I tend to look at it like spending a certain amount of time away from Eorzea increases your reaction to the aether once you immerse yourself in it once more. Kind of like moving/visiting a coastal residence from one of high elevation. Once you return to the high elevation, you are affected by it along with the changes in weather just like someone who is native to the coastal region.

When I start up a new character when we get Viera and Rothgar, this character isn't going to be a WoL like my current character. When I go through the story again with her, it's going to be a retelling of the events of ARR/HW/SB through a more harnessed/reflexive ability of the echo from Gemina. She'll receive these 'visions' into the past and live them out kind of like how we do when facing EX primals as a kind of 'calling' until the two characters meet sometime during ShB. Unlike Gemina, whose actual birth location is currently unknown and assumed to be somewhere in the Hinterlands, this new character will most certainly be from Gilmore Jungle; leaving her forest sisters and arriving in Eorzea in pursuit of the WoL.