Does your character have a backstory? If so, what is it?

[NegativeS]

I saw a thread like this a couple days ago but it only got 2 replies, which is sad because something like this is super interesting to me in something like an MMO.

What did your character do before coming to their starting city state? Do they have a goal? Who were they before they became the Warrior of Light?

Here's mine, just as an example:

Negative Space, the last of his clan, came to Eorzea from the faraway land of [unidentified] to learn the coveted art of Sharlayan astrology in a futile bid to bring his kind back from the aethereal sea. Unfortunately he ended up being inadvertently scooped up by Hydaelyn, and though his original goal has since fallen by the wayside, he has decided that saving the star from the Empire and otherworldly forces was more important for the time being, since he can't bring his clan back if the star is gone or under the yoke of a tyrant. Since he has joined with the Scions, and has used their resources (unbeknownst to Tataru) to study his original goal, deciding to further pursue Sharlayan technology in his bid, between Alphinaud and Alisaie breathing down his neck to go murder something.

He has since gotten very tired of being shaken around like a chore-doing ragdoll, and fully intends to blow a hole through Zenos' head with a noulith and flip Hydaelyn the bird before going back to his homeland at the end of Endwalker... if he gets there.

'Negative Space' isn't his real name, as he doesn't want to be connected to his clan just in case the ones who wiped them out come to finish the job. He intends to keep this name until either his clan is recovered, or if he ever determines this to be impossible.

(Disclaimer: I did look for an RP/AAR subforum and didn't find it, so if there's somewhere else this should be then I apologize in advance)

[DinahDemiurge]

Allagan test tube baby

[Catkicker]

Why Catkicker? The story of an RPG characters birth.

It all started in 1983 with a game called Castle Tellengard, for the commodore 64. This was my first RPG, and it had one problem, OK, 2 if you count the fact it took 15 minutes to load. The game required all save files to be named starting with SV. Now if you can come up with any name other than Sven, you're better off than I was. So, with this constraint, I came up with SVENDEGARD, as I was putting myself through college as a security guard, easy work after 5 years as a cop. In the years that followed many RPG's came and went, and I slowly came up with a story for Sven.

Sven was born at the end of the age of Vikings, at a time when all the good Viking names had been taken. Sven was a good Viking, very experienced, and good with a bow, something that set him apart from the rest of his Viking fellows. Yet, he was just Sven, nothing else, and he wanted a name to be known forever, like Eric the Red or even Haggar the Horrible. But, all were taken. So one day while he was pondering his dilemma in the Town Square, he, in a pique of anger kicked a cat. In a flash, he looked around, and all the villagers looking at him said, "Look, its Sven the Catkicker". Thus was born the Legend. In a way, Sven got what he wanted, a name that would be unforgettable, but it wasn't exactly what he'd been looking for.

[TwizzlyTwist]

Since I'm now a bunny boy with a sun cat name, my character is adopted and beat the shit out of the N clan Nunh. lmao

[BiddyBatnana]

My WoL is called Biddy Batnana.

He's born in the Viera tribe of Rak'tika.(LA HEE ♪)

Why Biddy you may ask ?

Simple. He was born under the sign of the hag said his mother. *shrug*

He spent his youth within the great forest.
Once adult his father sent to him to Gridania to train with the milita and became a Lancer.

And That's how my WoL's story started.

Now a proud BLM, DRG and DNC

Once done with the mess in Eorzea he'll return to Rak'tika to watch over the ruins of Qitari with his fellow brothers and sisters.

[KayRadley]

To make a long backstory brief:

* Orphaned as an infant
* Adopted by an Ala Mhigan refugee/chocobo rancher
* Orphaned again during the Calamity
* Had a run-in with the Go Go Posing Rangers in the years since
* Now a superhero

[SpaghettiPie]

ngl mines a little cringe lol always been shy about this stuff but want to be more active on the forum, so what better way to start.

- was a run away not wanting to live a simple life in ul'dah, made her way to gridania to pick up being a healer.
- didnt like it in gridania either, ran to limsa lominsa.
- became somewhat of a travelling healer going from place to place to help strangers she came across.
- got picked up by the scions and finally achieved the "found family" trope.

post Heavensward and post Shadowbringers/EW she got some design changes for trauma reasons so now shes not a happy little WoL anymore but is very much the "i only do this because im the only one who can" type and is unhappy longing for the day when she can rest in peace. unfortunately i didnt think about any of the hydaelyn stuff too much lol

[Hysorn]

I usually give my characters backstories but I really can't make a decent one, you know that the ending point of the backstory is your character deciding to go on an adventure. Sure, you can make a looooot of things, but I feel like a simple "He had wanderlust and decided to act upon it" works pretty damn well for this game.

[nebby00]

Considering my character was once a female Viera, the original backstory I had for the female version was she had felt drawn to something calling to her from her home Golmore Jungle, though initially trying to ignore it and passing it off as the forests whispers, after consulting her sisters in the tribe; from their answers she soon realized it was something different from their experiences. As decades passed, the call would not cease and eventually haunt her every dream, dreams of a calamity lost to time as well as a mysterious voice who she later would identify as Hydaelyn when she does eventually leave. Upon leaving on her seventieth nameday, with her trusty axe in hand, she left the wood and changed her surname to honor the forest home she could never go back to, "Tree" to remind her of the familiar woods, and "bow" in remembrance of her mother who was quite skilled with a bow compared to Thracie's skill in close combat. She had considered changing her first name, but couldn't bare to leave it behind as it was the name her mother gave her. After wandering around for five years or so, she found her way to Limsa Lominsa and grew quite interested in the Rogue's Guild. From there it's the usual story.

Now for my current revised version for the male Thracie Treebow, he was orphaned early on in his life, around three years and had been found by a Sharlayan researcher who had taken him in after finding him while she was doing field research. Due to the lack of clear sexual dimorphism in Viera when they are children, the Elezen woman who had taken him in as her own had mistaken him for a girl and had given him the name Thracie after consulting some of the very few Viera who lived in Sharlayan at this point in time. As he grew and reached maturity, this particular fact is a point of embarrassment for him; though he had grown to not much care as he grew older.

Thracie was educated in Sharlayan, though a certain wanderlust was always within him, desiring to see the world and finding Sharlayan's stance of staying away from everyone and everything stifling. Soon, it grew to the point of being unbearable, resulting in him having an argument with his foster mother and slipping away from Sharlayan, never to return... or at least he thought. Of course the decision after awhile had made him regret it, after he had cut ties from his mother and had no knowledge of how to survive on his own. It was only through luck that he had stumbled into Limsa Lominsa, not a gil to his name due to being ripped off by a merchant who sold him his cheap starting axe and forcing Thracie to sneak on board a random ship. It was then his adventures began and he would run into the Scions.

And in headcannon, for him regarding his foster mother, he would never be able to reconnect with her due to him being unaware that his mother had left Sharlayan to try to find him out of concern for his safety, and unfortunately in Endwalker would be a victim of the Final Days and turn into one of the many monsters that had appeared due to all the negative emotions and whatnot. He will be filled with guilt over his decision to leave, but it would be another burden he must bear. After the events of Endwalker, he would hang out in Sharlayan for awhile before he eventually would wander off again out of not desiring to stay in a place that only holds nothing more than painful memories.

Of course that's all I got for now, it's all up to change eventually too ^.^

[Gemina]

How far back do you want to go? xD

I'm not the most creative person, and do much better expanding ideas; so a lot of my character's lore develops as I play the MSQ. Oddly enough, there have been a few 'coincidences' where the lore I wrote up, just so happened to line up with a story within the game, such as the DRK quests, picking up SAM before knowing what the four lords was all about and the training with Musosai whom to this day she considers her master.

Even now with EW and the strong ties to FFIV. I named my character "Lunarian" way back in 2015, so it's not like I just created her or renamed her. It's crazy.

As is pretty common, my character is an orphan. Her real parents (at least one of them) is a Lunarian. According to her adoptive father; the whereabouts of her true parents are unknown. It is only known that they sought out refuge in Dravania, and sanctuary was provided to them by the Dragonkin. Unfortunately, this resulted in the deaths of the two dragons keeping watch over her. The dragons appeared to be frozen despite the very warm climate of Sohm Al, but closer inspection showed they were petrified in a mysterious type of crystal that carries no elemental properties found on the star. My character was was found in a protective casing made from the same material by her adoptive father and Hraesvelgr . The latter surmising that the infant child was a Lunarian upon opening her magenta eyes and staring right at both of them.

Hraesvalgr left the Lunarian in her adoptive father's care, and he raised her in Dravania. Despite her affinity for arcana and healing magicks, she rejects it and feels her parents abandoned her on the hills of Sohm Al to be fed to the dragons. His continued attempts to provide magic tutelage from the guildmasters in Gridania and Ul'dah finally made her rebel and find her way to Othard where she began training under masters of eastern close quarters combat. It was here she picked up her martial skills, and came back to Eorzea in search of a master and to reconcile with her father.

Enter the echo, and as the story begins in 2.0.

She learned a ton during the Dragonsong War. This is what really hardened my character, and she discovered that her parents didn't abandon her. She began to embrace her magical nature, and now would very much like to find her parents. Perhaps she will this expansion.