Racial background info

[Nahaara]

I remember a dev post a while back that gave us some insight on the Roegadyn naming conventions, using the admiral of Limsa Lominsa's name as an example, and that got me thinking about how the naming conventions for the other races work, the meaning behind the names of Hyur, Lalafell, Elezen, ect. I'd also like to know more about their cultures and what have you, the descriptions on the official site are good and all but I feel there's more to it than what's let on. Lastly, i'm also curious about racial height differences and such, like how tall would the tallest hyur be in feet-inches, etc? Some more info on the races like what I said would be greatly appreciated!

[Jinrya-Geki]

There's some info on where the races originally came from on the teaser site.

But what is there else to know about the races, when clearly lalafel are the best? :P

[Nahaara]

There's some info on where the races originally came from on the teaser site.

But what is there else to know about the races, when clearly lalafel are the best? :P

Yeah, for example it says that all of the races except for the Elezen came to Eorzea when the oceans were frozen over, and the Hyur and Elezen had a short lived conflict with the Hyur because they felt they were being invaded by them and stuff. More info though would be really nice imo.

[Kagato]

One look at Merlwyb and you know Roegadyn Females Master Race.

[Rau]

I miss how Tarutarus had hilarious naming schemes. Lalafells seem to lack that charm :|

[Nahaara]

I miss how Tarutarus had hilarious naming schemes. Lalafells seem to lack that charm :|

I know, but I feel that sort of charm is still there somewhat, like there's one lalafell NPC that speaks in rhymes somewhere.

[SuzakuCMX]

I miss how Tarutarus had hilarious naming schemes. Lalafells seem to lack that charm :|

Lalafell names follow a weird naming scheme. Repetitive syllables in both the given and surname. It makes them sound like children.

[Nahaara]

Lalafell names follow a weird naming scheme. Repetitive syllables in both the given and surname. It makes them sound like children.

Like Sesaburu or Lulumo, right?

[SuzakuCMX]

Like Sesaburu or Lulumo, right?

Sesaburu Mesaburu and stupid sounding stuff like that. It makes me think they hired 3 year olds to name all their Lalafell NPCs :x

[Pandastirfry]

Sesaburu Mesaburu and stupid sounding stuff like that. It makes me think they hired 3 year olds to name all their Lalafell NPCs :x

Wait, and Shantoto, Babubu, Yoran-Oranm Kupipi, Chayaya, Leepe-Hoppe, Atori-tutori, Chomomo, Abobo are less childish sounding... those are just a few of XI's Tarutaru NPCs

The naming conventions of Lalafells, and Tarutaru are identical.

Elezan and Elvaan share a pseudo french naming convention, and the Hyur and Humes share share a Latin/germanic naming style

The Roegadyn and Galka share the odd almost stereotypical native American naming convention though the Roegadyn more often than not use their "native" Norse sounding spelling so you get thing like Merylwyb instead of Iron Eater like in XI

the Miqo'te and Mithra are the only ones that seem to diverge at all with most Miqo'te haveing a name starting with a single letter followed by a glottal stop then the rest of their name, like Y'shtola, where as XI the mithra were the only ones who seemed to more often than not have a first name and surname a'la Nanaa Migho.


as to the speech conventions, More often than not your speech is going to be more like the dominant culture in which you live, not by what race you happen to be born as. and second...seriously the Tarutaru speech patterns sounded like baby talk and got really grating really fast, but I guess some people found it cute. The mithra on the other hand. I actually was really happy when it became apparent that the Miqo'te didn't trill every "r" like the Mithra did. I was glad that they dropped one of the biggest cliches of anthropomorphic cat people, cats don't purr all the time and there is no reason to assume that if the had the same dental/facial structure as a human that they would for some reason trill all their "r"s...is it to drive home the fact that they're cats? The ears, tails, and eyes do a good enough job of that they don't need a speech impediment.