(09-04-2014, 09:38 AM)Eleni Wrote: That brings up the question, though, why would SE put players in such a predicament? Either let non Padjal be a WHM (and not just one special cookie out of everyone else), or not make WHM such a big thing?
I get the feeling that SE feels the story is nifty and cool and does a good job of casting the player character as the Hero, so they're fine with it. The quest stands out a bit in that it casts the player rather more as the One and Only Hero compared to many of the other quest lines, Job or otherwise, where you're just one of many heroes.
There's a lot of elements that inform one's position on WHM in RP. There's where one is in the MSQ, one's read on the state of Gridania and the elementals of the Shroud post-Calamity, one's interpretation of the rather weird WHM Job quest (which is rather unlike some of the other Job quests and has some inconsistencies in its writing), one's opinion on SE's lore about Jobs on the main XIV site, what other Job quests one has done (SMN and MNK address soul stones very directly, but their take is different than PLD, WHM, and BLM) and how you reconcile their varying lore, one's opinion about how common Jobs are in general, etc. All of these together result in some quite varying opinions on the viability of WHM, ranging from "absolutely unplayable by any PC under any circumstances" to "it's okay with a narrative justification" and several other opinions in between.
I say playing a WHM is likely to cause problems because there's little consensus and two diametrically opposed camps; if you run into people who feel what you're doing is lore breaking, there's not much you can do in terms of RP there. To maximize the people you can RP with, it's generally advisable to avoid concepts like White Mage that are quite polarizing.
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