The Player Character: Where are they from?

[Myranda]

I believe the primary complaint is not about how adventurers as a whole came about as remnant sellswords, or even that our origins are left open-ended for players to fill in the gaps with our own personal backstories. Rather, it is that it's not left open-ended enough.

The game goes quite out of its way to emphasize that we are not of Eorzea as a whole. They reference our clothing as "unusual" in the opening carriage scenes, they heavily imply that we fought at Carteneau for seemingly no gain of our own, as if it's out of the question that any of us were born in raised in Ul'dah/Gridania/Limsa Lominsa.

It's something that has bothered me quite a bit from the beginning, that we are actively denied a more intimate attachment to our starting city according to the lore. It seems silly to me that someone born in Ul'dah could not become one of the fabled Warriors of Light. That said I've learned to just accept it and ignore some of the in-game text while letting my personal backstory override it.