What's your character's backstory/lore?

[Averax]

I prefer to keep my character's origins vague and fluid so i can just entertain myself by adding new things to it when new lore is available. Don't like to glue myself to a specific backstory.

However, for this character in particular i did have a somewhat elaborate passing thing to justify not being "Tia" or "Nunh" that i made up in my spare time.

I made him the result of an affair with one of the A tribe women and a passing moon keeper male, who was later exiled as a young child when the affair came to light (he looked like nobody else in the village, it was obvious, and the Nunh wasn't happy about it). His older brother joined him, and they travelled far north together, far away from any seeker tribe, as seekers are notoriously not fans of the cold. They took on the surname of Snow, to signify their new life in the north, and their refusal to be a part of another tribe's customs. They did, however, keep the A prefix to spite their old tribe.

In their travels, it was found that i had quite the affinity for manipulating aether. So we went on together to Sharlayan (Dravania) to find somebody to help me hone this talent safely. The older brother insisted that i could be somebody important someday if i got the right training. However, none were very forthcoming as a tutor to two penniless, tribeless miqo'te, and so for a while i subsisted on what knowledge i could glean from beginner basics books in their public library. In the meanwhile, the older brother tried to pick up a trade and make some money for the both of us to get me further education.

This process was slow, and by the time we started making any headway, the events preceding the 7th Umbral Era unfolded, and Sharlayan packed up and returned to the motherland. We did not follow. Instead, my brother decided that we should stay in Eorzea, and that Sharlayan was getting us nowhere. It had just started snowing endlessly in Coerthas, so my brother decided there as a lot of money to be made hunting for meats and pelts to sell to the newly frigid elezen. Using the money he made from this, he sent me down southward to learn magic from one of the other city states. As it turns out, Ul'dah was in desperate need of fresh Thaumaturges, so they weren't picky about who they taught, so then [insert intro sequence to Ul'dah and all of the events that followed]

Eventually in my travels, i had learned about Conjury, the Arcanima, Astrology, Red Magic... Learning forbidden arts like White and Black magic, and the lost Allagan art of Summoning, and also became some sort of hero or whatever. The older brother remains rather successful in his busniness of selling pelts and meats up in Coerthas to this day, and is very proud of his little brother.

This, however, is all going out the window when i become a bun, a shame because i was a bit fond of it. That's life though. Who knows though, i could go back some day.