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

[Iscah]

As a new (non-1.0) character, you're definitely treated as an outsider who isn't familiar with Eorzea at all. If I remember correctly the peddler remarks that you were having a nightmare and that you must not be used to all the aether. Which doesn't really make sense if your character actually is Eorzean - it's like they're trying to set up a "you-from-Earth have just arrived here and don't have a history in this world" kind of scenario. It's only gotten more awkward as we've learned more of the world outside Eorzea itself, and there are less in-world "vague elsewheres" to have come from.

I definitely ignore that suggestion. Aurelie is Gridanian and the game opens with her traveling to Limsa to study arcanistry. Simple enough, and mostly happening as shown.

Though on the other hand, I've never been certain whether I should assume she's a normal person or if at some point we're going to learn that we simply manifested out of the aether.