(07-10-2014, 02:07 AM)A Wrote: Yay, my first none art, RP question thread!

Ok, just gonna jump right into this.

I'm pretty new to FFXIV lore... Like, embarrassingly so. I've not really had any characters that had a truly developed backstory in this world and so I've started chipping away at my Miqo'te, A'ria.

My ideas for this character are similar to the NPC from the white Mage quest lines where I believe the name is Sylphie is drawing from her own Aether instead of the Aether from the world around her and it sapping her life from her. I wanted A'ria to have issues with conjuring from the elements and thus giving her a flaw that both explains her small size and her constant illness and weakness. 

I've also made her a botanist mostly for the sake of her trying to find other outlets to heal people without actually having to conjure a spell because it will make her fall ill. She desperately wants to help those in need and she will do anything in order to do that.

That being said, are these ideas too out there or do they actually work?

(07-10-2014, 04:25 AM)Sounsyy Wrote: I think the concept works. The only thing to be sure of though is that there is a very real difference between "Conjury" and "White Magic/Succor" as Liadan mentioned.

Conjury is a form of magic that allows the user to commune with nature, borrowing its life force (aether) to form a spell. It is not monitored or controlled by Elementals.

While Succor is forbidden White Magic that belongs to the Elementals. It is their magic and they gift it to very few.

(07-10-2014, 05:15 AM)ArmachiA Wrote: They get all pissy if you wear your socks funny.

(07-10-2014, 02:07 AM)A Wrote: Yay, my first none art, RP question thread!

Ok, just gonna jump right into this.

I'm pretty new to FFXIV lore... Like, embarrassingly so. I've not really had any characters that had a truly developed backstory in this world and so I've started chipping away at my Miqo'te, A'ria.

My ideas for this character are similar to the NPC from the white Mage quest lines where I believe the name is Sylphie is drawing from her own Aether instead of the Aether from the world around her and it sapping her life from her. I wanted A'ria to have issues with conjuring from the elements and thus giving her a flaw that both explains her small size and her constant illness and weakness. 

I've also made her a botanist mostly for the sake of her trying to find other outlets to heal people without actually having to conjure a spell because it will make her fall ill. She desperately wants to help those in need and she will do anything in order to do that.

That being said, are these ideas too out there or do they actually work?

(07-10-2014, 08:01 AM)Roswyn Wrote: I feel your character would have a very short lifespan. The whole idea with Sylphie was she was eating away at her own life in order to use her abilities. After a few years of using her abilities your character would fall over.

It's almost too strong of a handicap to call yourself a conjuror.

My character is a novice conjurer. She can manage with external injuries (and she had a bunch of practice as of late..) but when it comes to internal wounds and *gasp* raising she tends to bork it. The one time she tried raising someone she did it incorrectly and almost ended up killing herself.

She can't see an incapacitated person now without freaking out that she's going to have to try again and mess up. There is a lot of confusion regarding Raise as well but that is a subject for another thread.

I'd suggest giving A'ria a little more room to breathe. Maybe she's in the process of learning how to pull aether to use for her spells. Instead of literally chopping years off her life. Sounds like a very punishing role to play and any other characters that become close to her would naturally urge her to stop.

(07-10-2014, 11:22 AM)Jancis Wrote: Sadly most of the other conjurers I've met have the same 'magic' style where they don't do it properly.

It really just seems like copying the 'unique' story they game made to make a quest-line and makes it overplayed.

To be sickly or something in your character could always do something like a family illness or something along the line where every generation or something since this distant relative there's always children who don't make it and your character has found a way to survive, albeit from healing herself and draining her mind from the process which still leaves her in a weak/sickly state.

Or she's constantly going out and healing the elderly and sick to the point she's burning the candle at both ends.

That doesn't have much to do with the lore, it's just taking what is suppose to be a fluke person for the game to make people skip cut-scenes and regurgitating it. Lore-based, any conjurer would hella know better than to do something so bloody stupid.