(12-30-2013, 11:08 PM)Rinette Wrote: Rinette doesn't have very many IC contacts to roleplay with so I'm looking to set up some meetings for her to make some friends (or enemies, who knows what'll happen). My main idea for this is someone is needing an escort through the Shroud for whatever reason and Rinette ends up helping them. The best part is your character can be anyone! An Ul'dah merchant who was ditched by a sellsword at the border of Thanalan and South Shroud who needs to get to Gridania to pick up an important shipment. A shady character slipping out of Coerthas and into the North Shroud to avoid capture. A Limsa native researching the Shroud's flora and wants to see it in person. There are so many possibilities!

Alternatively, there is room in her backstory for an academic who taught her to read and write in her teens. The only issue with that is they would have to be in their early to mid thirties (Rinette's timeline is adjustable by a few years).

Now if neither of those ideas tickle your fancy I have left the other family of her MoonKeeper clan unnamed on the off chance someone wanted to step up and take the spot. That could be a whole plot by itself, finding each other, searching for more survivors from the clan, ect. If that doesn't work out I'll just beg Naih'ir to adopt me into their extremely well thought out and established clan.

Lastly there's a link to my directory page in my signature if you want to read my ramblings about my roleplay style to make sure we will mesh well.

(12-30-2013, 11:18 PM)Naihir Wrote: Naih is always after more friends - he'd be very curious to your current situation!

(12-31-2013, 12:07 AM)Rinette Wrote:

(12-30-2013, 11:18 PM)Naihir Wrote: Naih is always after more friends - he'd be very curious to your current situation!

That is good to know. I will probably end up joining your clan in the future when I stop adjusting her timeline/backstory/personality. She's still a work in progress for me and I want to have a history and personality I'm comfortable with before she gets into something where her attitude changing would be weird.

(12-31-2013, 05:20 AM)Knight Kat Wrote: I didn't verify that it was accurate, so i stayed with it. I ended going from a surname for my clan's second family that was too common to a surname that would not ever be used by anyone unless they saw it from me. I sometimes feel like I violated the lore However, it is now too established in my RP to change.

(12-31-2013, 05:20 AM)Knight Kat Wrote: My character's clan is just for back-story mostly.

(12-31-2013, 01:08 PM)FreelanceWizard Wrote: There's no need to worry. This dev post indicates that the surnames you see in game are just some of the most prominent ones; they're not the only ones available. You can use one of those or create your own as you wish and still be compliant with lore.

Rinette Wrote:Rinette's clan is just backstory as well but I thought if I left it open it could be an interesting plot if someone wanted to fill in the spot. It's really not a major story that I was planning on doing with her. It's a shame we couldn't combine our families but it happens and we can still roleplay together. :3

I feel like I royally messed up with Rinette's name as well, I was randomizing a lot of names in the character creator and didn't like any of the first names so I threw in Rinette from an old WOW character. I immediately regretted it when I started to work on her backstory and was looking through what little lore I could find about miqo'te and someone linked to the naming conventions.

(12-31-2013, 06:40 PM)Knight Kat Wrote: The name Rinette seemed fine to me until you just now mentioned that LOL. The good thing about being a Keeper female is that you don't need to throw in any apostrophes or prefixes. I guess if you were going to go with Rinette you couldn't have chosen a better Miqo'te gender and race.