Who is your FFXIV character?

[TheMightyMollusk]

Iyami was a war orphan raised in Gridania. Although she loved the forest, she always found the Gridanians' many rules about it horribly stifling, and so as soon as she was old enough, she took up a bow and enrolled in the Adventurers' Guild to broaden her horizons. The pay, while nice, is secondary to the adventure; after all, you can't take gil back into the Lifestream.

Impatient, fearless to the point of recklessness, and ever full of wanderlust, Iyami constantly dabbles in new jobs and trades....even if she's horribly unsuited to them, as her conjury tutors will attest. Her jack-of-all-trades tendencies and wandering do-gooder habits make her a natural red mage, but even then, she sometimes gets bored and picks up a gun or a greatsword for a while. She tries to get along with everyone (a traveler who alienates her hosts finds herself unemployed), but is somewhat put off by Lalafells for no reason she can adequately describe. She's done odd jobs for the Scions of the Seventh Dawn, most notably at the Steps of Faith, but doesn't really consider herself a member. Mostly because she can't stay in one place long enough to sign up.

[Parn]

Once upon a time in the Azim Steppe there was a young warrior, named Khulan of the Qestir Tribe, who earned the right during the Naadam to be the next Khagan.

At the time the Adamkir Tribe was enforcing it's rule by absorbing smaller, weaker tribes. Khulan was an eyesore to Togene the Adamkir Khan. Togene wanted Khulan out of the way but was also afraid the disgrace he would suffer in case he lost. So Togene hired the Yatsurugi Clan to assassinate Khulan.

The Yatsurugi Clan were assassins located deep within the Yanxia Mountains. They sent Yume, a skilled kunoichi, disguised as one of Khulan's servants. Yume was enticed by Khulan's kindness. When she had the chance to finish Khulan, he didn't resist making her fall for him thus failing her mission.

The Yatsurugi Clan were unforgiving so they sent more assassins to complete the mission and retrieve the traitor. Yume and Khulan fought them off but Togene, who was lurking around, caught Khulan off guard and managed a fatal blow.

Yume not having a home to return to anymore, fled to Limsa Lominsa pregnant on Khulan's son. In Limsa she gave birth to Kagetora, a half breed that belonged to neither Qestir nor Yatsurugi. Being afraid that her son would also be a target she trained him early on to the ways of the shinobi.

When Kagetora was old enough Yume told him the truth about his father and his clan. Kagetora took it upon himself to protect his mother so he travelled to all three-city states challenging and training under masters of all kinds of weapons and arts. He knew he had to be stronger than his parents to make sure his mother's safety.

During his adventures Kagetora found out that he was one of the Warriors of Light and with the power of Echo he defended Eorzea in more than one occasion. During his absence the Yatsurugi Clan found his mother and kidnapped her. Kagetora sensed something was wrong and rushed back to his house. Once arrived he used the power of Echo to see what happened but at the time he had no means of tracking them.

In the fight to free Ala Mhigo and Doma, Kagetora searched for clues of the Yatsurugi Clan location. At Azim Steppe he found out that Togene had been killed by the current Khan so he lost his only lead to their village. After many fights and the liberation of Ala Mhigo, one of the prisoners of the Empire that was freed was Yatsurugi no Yuki, the princess of his Clan, that was captured during the last failed rebellion. Yuki empathized with Kagetora and decided to help him by revealing the village's location.

Kagetora infiltrated the village with Yuki's help. On their way in they encountered the entire Clan. During the fight they recognized their lost Princess and they bowed before her. Yuki immediately ordered to stop the execution of Yume. Yuki invited Kagetora and Yume to stay at the village but Kagetora had a lot of adventures ahead. He left the village and continued his journey as the Warrior of Light.

[Rannie]

My character is the middle child of farmers from the Sharlayan mother land... he hates water and came to Ul'dah before the 7th Calamity. Also to explain his name one of his ancestors was elezen but it was so far back that in his family tree that only the last name that has barely stayed intact (it's been shortened a few times).

He is one of the missing WoLs from Carteneau (and before anyone tries to call foul, yes this character is a legacy character tattoo, extra/different cutscenes and all) and now after all he's been through he's an alcoholic and he hates water.

[KarmaLad]

Ah just a drunkard who spent her days in the Drowning Wench 'till she joined the Maelstrom to do somethin' with her life. Now she's a successful drunkard serving as a Captain.

[NightwingsBeyond]

I am …I do not know who I am any more…. i was someone before…. i am a man lost in a complete opposite world of mine. I shell start with a beginning like all other stories you have read or heard


Once upon a time there was … there was an apocalypse in me future that crumble the world and all of its heroes have parish, but there ware villains also there and seeing that the world they wanted was taken away to a being with godlike powers they united. A unite front of villains and heroes stood together but it was all in vain, they have faulted. But only 1 man have been able to survive it and he took the leap of fait and have come traveling time and space before the crises have ever started. He has announced his grief he’s sorrows and his pain to the heroes of the past so that his future shell not be and wit his words he relies upon the globe the EXOBITES! They have given power to normal people so that together they will bring down the supreme evil.

This is how I got me power but did not regret anything, and together the people of earth have defeated the supreme evil and peace was there … or was it? Some of the people have taken for granted the powers given and have become corrupted and here where is we my story have started. I have been so many adventure like I have fought for the light, was there when the lighting have strike , joined the battle for earth I have seen the evils last laugh also when the battle got tougher I have been protecting me home turf and then I have seen with me two eyes the origin of the crisis and how it came to be, been fighting the sons of a demon that was trying to be release from hell side by side with his daughter that was a good and gentle soul. At one point in time I have seen me self-fighting 3 big major clashes :the war of the light , the amazons fury and the halls of power and so on and on until I have been broken by the market, to survive and be powerful you was suppose to fight the market now.


One night I heard a calling in me sleep, I follow the voice, the path it led me was like some kind of fantasy world and by the time I open my eyes I seen me self in a caravan traveling to this golden city in the desert. And yet so I have stared a life like out of the phantasm book I have live me final fantasy, I have become the warrior of light and dark. I have embraced me new life stile with me new friend and companions but deep down I know that I am a stranger here in this world, but will live by its fullest. In the previous world I was call Nightwings Beyond, now I am just Beyond …. Beyond me reality and me true origins. Eorzia thank you for accepting this unworthy soul in to your world.

TO INFINITY AND BEYOND!

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

My character is a Moon Keeper Miqote who decided to adventure because he didn't fit in well with his own culture. With males being rare and him being more inclined to choose a male as a romantic partner, there was just too little opportunity for him and he wasn't keen on the expectation that he'd sire offspring regardless of his inclinations. Being an adventurer gives him the freedom to live as he sees fit, choose his own name, and more opportunity to find a romantic partner that he matches well with.

[Wissp]

Considering I have written over 200 various story and letter blogs on my Lodestone page about Annabel, her family, friends, companions, enemies, and her journey as the WOL, I think I have fleshed out my dear character just a BIT.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes.../blog/4269748/


I will say, some of the descriptions on here are pretty good.

[Iscah]

Aurelie is 'the' Warrior of Light, the main character of the game. She had an unremarkable childhood in Gridania, though her Echo began to manifest at the time of the Calamity with visions of Bahamut. At the beginning of the game she travelled to Limsa Lominsa to study arcanistry, and her story has followed the main plot from there. She's maybe a bit 'nicer' than the default WoL on occasion (sometimes they react angrily to things, and it doesn't seem right) and she definitely didn't have the issues covered in the DRK quest - maybe because she has friends to help her cope better.

Brynwyda is Lominsan, a trainee marauder and doing odd jobs for the adventurers' guild - she doesn't like to fight, but wants to be able to defend others. She came to Aurelie's aid after a goobbue attacked her; the two became friends and they got caught up in the early-game Limsa storyline together.

Sylviel is also from Gridania and knew Aurelie prior to the story beginning. He'd originally joined the lancers' guild but the whole business with Foulques was hard for him, and he left the guild and eventually also the city, moving to Ul'dah to study alchemy - where Aurelie and Bryna meet up with him in the course of the story. He joins them as an archer, later bard, and also picks up either scholar or astrologian (though would be chemist if they introduce it). The most calm and observant of the group.

Haru is from Thavnair; originally Yanxian but his parents are travelling merchants and move around a lot. He joined Troupe Falsiam (DNC questline) and arrived in Eorzea with them. Joined Aurelie's group for at least some of their journey, maybe not Heavensward though. Easy-going and positive.

U'zolwe Tia... is new and needs some more thought. I'm not sure if he's from the U tribe or possibly another settlement that split off and still has the same tribe-name; I would have gone for something else entirely but I couldn't decide on another letter that sounded right. Anyway, he's adventuring to become stronger and find a tribe to claim (because I assume they don't go back to their birth-tribe, what with being related to most of the women in it). I'm planning that he'll be a gunbreaker eventually, but haven't got there yet. He's fiery and gets frustrated a lot - will probably be taking all the snarky answers once I get to the point in the story that they give us dialogue choices.

Zi'aba Nunh and Zi'djalani made the very un-Seeker-ish decision to get married, and figured that actually establishing this in Seeker culture meant declaring themselves a separate tribe - a little ironic since both of them had moved away from their home tribes to get away from the whole business. Z'aba Tia (as he was at the time) had no chance or interest in claiming a tribe, so moved to Limsa and took a research job at the arcanists' guild; I'djalani was working as a retainer while pursuing her interest in studying fossils. She needed some help cataloguing them; he answered the ad seeking an assistant, and it all went on from there...
They're just side characters, not part of Aurelie's group, but would have crossed paths at points. Mostly I just liked the idea of bending the rules (specifically obscure canon conventions for starting new tribes) to adapt tribe-naming for a married couple, and that the nunh title could entirely accurately go to someone who doesn't seem like they should have it. I think he gets a lot of "wait, you're a what...?"

[Kytrin]

K'rina Sato (main): She is the daughter of a couple who is part of a mixed group of refugees who fled Doma when the Garleans destroyed their village while attempting to invade the Azime Steppe. They were, mercifully, able to get away, but there were heavy casualties regardless. The surviving two members of the Kurogane (Raen) clan that ruled their village gathered the other survivors together and helped them escape into the wider world. Getting out of Doma itself required every single trick they had, but they were able to make a deal with the Ruby Sea pirates to get to Kugane.

Once in Kugane, they took stock and while some chose to stay in more familiar surroundings, the rest rallied around their young leader who had seen them safely out of the battlefield. They re-organized themselves into a mercenary company and set out to find their fortunes and a place they could call home until Doma and its surrounding area was free once more.

This is the life K'rina was born to. She and the other children of the company (not just miqo'te, but several races) grew up traveling with the company. They saw a great many exotic places and peoples and over time a great many of the more traditional attitudes were dropped from the multi-racial clan. As a kitten, she began trying to help out almost as soon as she could toddle, and quickly proved herself a prodigy. Though not before the number of jobs for mercenary companies in general began to decline. By the time they reached Eorzea, mercenary companies were much fewer and further between. By the time she was fifteen, it was nearly impossible for them to find work. So the eclectic clan took stock again and chose to settle in Vylbrand and begin building a more permanent home.

K'rina never quite lost that wanderlust from her childhood however, and when she turned twenty, and their new little village was stable, she decided to go into Limsa Lominsa and register as an adventurer. Her family was only too happy to help prepare her and send her out. Little did they know that all too soon afterwards the moon would fall and calamity would happen.

When K'rina awoke five years later on a ship without any memory of what had happened considering she'd last been on the battlefield at Carteneau, she shamelessly wrung as much information out of the talkative peddler as she could, and once she arrived in Limsa she hastily reached out to her family in the hopes they'd been spared the tragedy. Shortly thereafter, there was a very tearful reunion between her and her parents, and she returned briefly to the village that had mercifully survived, to get caught up on everything that had happened.

She stayed there for about a month before deciding to head back into the adventuring life. She wasn't content to simply remain in one place indefinitely, and felt that in the wake of the tragedy she couldn't prevent, she owed it to the survivors to help them as much as she wanted to help her family. So back to Limsa Lominsa she went. And her path has been a long and strange one ever since.

Sonja Forsberg (alt): Sonja is a third generation Hyur/Veena mix from Dalmasca by way of Radz-at-Han who has never known true Viera culture. Her grandmother left the mountains after choosing to help a wounded Dalmascan man instead of simply killing him for his unintentional trespassing. His stories of Dalmasca and the outside world in general fascinated her, and even after he left she wished to know and see more. As much as she loved the forest and her sisters, their refusal to acknowledge the outside world and new ideas had begun to chafe badly. So she left.

After traveling to Dalmasca she met back up with the man she'd rescued, now middle-aged and with children of his own, and was was immediately welcomed as a family friend. He and his family were only too happy to introduce the awe-struck, and culture-shocked, Viera to the outside world, and she was only too happy to lend her help where she could in return for their kindness. Though it saddened her greatly to learn that her friend was so very short lived in comparison to her own people. Nevertheless, she was happy to become a member of his family, and watch over his children and grand children when he no longer could.

Though she never expected to fall in love with the youngest grandson after he left the home a boy and returned a seasoned man. Or fall in love at all really. She embraced it wholly though, despite knowing her husband would leave her all too soon, and they were happy for several decades.

Her second greatest surprise, was that their children did not come out a strange blend of the two races. Rather, their four daughters were universally entirely Viera, while their two sons were both wholly Hyur in appearance. Each possessed one or two features of the other race, but that was all. And as the years passed it became apparent that in her daughters the longevity bred true as well. Determined that her daughters would fully understand the heritage they'd been given, she gave each of them traditional Viera names and began training all of them as rigorously as if they had been raised in Forsberg.

It was a tradition that would remain as each of the daughters grew into adulthood and found their own paths.

When the youngest of the four followed her mother's footsteps and fell in love with a Hyur man, she vowed to do for her daughters what her mother had done for them, and when Sonja was born Viera and proved herself female at thirteen, she was given her new name and began her training at the hands of her grandmother, mother, and aunts. Though her hyur heritage proved to also be more pronounced given her comparatively petite stature.

Nevertheles, she embraced the traditions and training passed to her eagerly enough, though she has never been able to understand her grandmother's stories of how strict and restrictive Viera culture is. Nor it's attitudes towards men.

When the Garleans came, Sonja helped her siblings and younger cousins to escape while her mother and aunts covered their retreat. Unable to remain anywhere in the vicinity, the extended family fled to Radz-at-Han and set up a new life there. It was difficult, but her grandmother had developed a very shrewd head for business over the years, and it wasn't long before they were comfortable and prosperous again.

As she grew into her adulthood, Sonja became restless. Their new home was beautiful, but she longed to see more of the world and perhaps find a way to liberate Dalmasca in the process. However, when the calamity came, all thoughts of liberating Dalmasca were abandoned in favor of helping her family survive the aftermath. Uncertain what their prospects at large were after that, Sonja volunteered to head out into the world to find out.

She began passing herself as an adventurer, and traveled warily overseas, only to find that the lifestyle suited her so much that she didn't want to give it up. She dutifully reported everything her family wanted to know about business prospects and the state of each land she'd visited on her return, but then informed them that she wished to go back out. Not as a scout, but as a real adventurer.

She felt her skills would be better served out there, helping those not as fortunate as them, and finding ways to fight against the Garleans lest they cause another calamity in their arrogance. Thus she traveled to Eorzea and began her first steps on a path that would change her life forever.

[Zazay]

I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me