(06-01-2016, 04:48 PM)Virella Wrote: The combo you want of race and job is simply neigh impossible. DRKs most likely will still have a hate against Au ra. I'm pretty sure they are probably one of the most fanatic folk when it comes down to hunting down what is 'wrong'. Au ra are wrong in the eyes in the Ishgardian.
Except that (at least one of) her backstories are quite similar to Sidurgu's own backstory of how he became a Dark Knight...?
Sidurgu Wrote:...I was about Rielle's age when I came to Ishgard. My parents, they...they said we would find a better life here. When the Temple Knights we had shown mercy returned, they let us choose the order in which we would die. That would be their mercy to us, they declared.
I watched my parents kneel in the dirt. “Look away,†they said. But I could not. At last, when it was my turn, I knelt and prepared to follow them into death. I closed my eyes...but when I opened them, a man in black stood before me, hand outstretched. And so I took it. “Defend the meek.†“Punish the wicked.†...Mayhap it was all but a convenient excuse to indulge in vengeance. She deserves better than me. But there is no one else...
So an Ishgardian Dark Knight, the one Sidurgu refers to as his and Fray's "Master," rescued an Au Ra after witnessing Temple Knights slaughter an entire tribe. If the Dark Knights considered being Au Ra to be wrong, he would've stood by and done nothing. The code of the Dark Knight is to "Defend the meek. Punish the wicked." Not to uphold Ishgardian bias. In the 50-60 quests, Sidurgu risks his life to defend a small girl who is imbibed with dragon blood by her heretic father who attacked a church official. Clearly, what the typical Ishgardian views as right or wrong means very little to the Dark Knights.
Sidurgu Wrote:I...I swore an oath. To protect her. That's what we dark knights do... All that anger, all that rage...born of a fervent desire to protect that which we hold most dear.
Fray Wrote:Say a man─a venerable, untouchable man─harms a child in unspeakable ways. He strides through the Hoplon, secure in the knowledge that he is beyond punishment. But for one who cuts down that vile beast as he flaunts his freedom, who knows how many others will suffer?
Such was the dilemma faced by a goodly knight long ago. He knew that he would be stripped of his titles and denounced for the deed. The threshold we refuse to cross is a line we draw for ourselves. We fear the consequences, and people suffer for our indecision. Everyone who held that crystal came to conquer that fear, and became who they wanted to be. That knight was the first. Will you be the next?
Sidurgu Wrote:Given the circumstances under which you embarked upon this path, I fear you do not yet understand what it means to be a dark knight. The first of us bared steel against one of the clergy─this is true. He sacrificed everything he once held dear in the name of justice. So must all who would walk in his footsteps. Mayhap you think this will earn you the love of the common man. You are wrong. To many, you will forever be a criminal─a fiend who sows chaos and discord. These people will listen to the lies of our enemies. They will do their utmost to cast you out─or worse.
Lodestone Wrote:The pious Ishgardian clergy guide the flock, and the devout knights protect the weak. Yet even the holiest of men succumb to the darkest of temptations.
None dare to administer justice to those sacrosanct elite residing outside the reach of the law. Who, then, defends the feeble from the transgressions of those meant to guide and protect them?
A valiant few take up arms to defend the downtrodden, and not even the holy priests and knights can escape their judgment. Pariahs in their own land, they are known by many as "dark knights." These sentinels bear no shields declaring their allegience. Instead, their greatswords act as beacons to guide the meek through darkness.