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I noticed something - what exactly is "From" used for? Most characters have their place of birth there (I think), but then the country is almost always wrong. E.g., Kuromimi is born in the Scarlet Moon Empire, not the Toran Republic. Just like my grandfather was not born in the Federal Republic of Germany, but in the Deutsches Reich. It's only a small thing, but I just wanted t put it here for discussion - I think makng it feel like a real world would give a lot more authenticity to the character pages. --Antimatzist (talk) 03:44, 19 March 2015 (EDT)

From means... from. It's vague because the Japanese books tend to be vague on this and what it means. Hometown is about the nearest alternative term I can give you and even that's narrowing it down a lot. Sierra wasn't born in the Blue Moon Village but she's stated as being from there. Lucretia is Karayan but is stated as being merely from the "northern continent". Ayda's "from the forests near Greenhill", which is really vague.

Different countries/cultures have different standards on this. It's true some will do as you say and will place a person as being "from" the country they were born in, so Kuromimi should be from the SME but others choose to do it with an eye on the present, so that Kuromimi, still alive in the Toran Republic era, is from the Toran Republic whereas Ain Gide, who dies before the republic, was from the SME.

There's a little bit of inconsistency in this because depending on the time frame the guides are set in, they're written differently. The Suikoden Encyclopedia loves using the Toran Republic because it is explicitly written from the perspective of being after the events of the first game, all ages for Suikoden 1 characters in it have 3 years added on because its written from an SY 460 viewpoint for example, while the Suikoden 108 Stars Guide is written from an in-game perspective so there is no Toran Republic to reference. --Admin (talk) 04:22, 19 March 2015 (EDT)