(12-12-2014, 06:08 AM)Guy Tower Wrote: I don't have any information like that, only a question on my own. Actual robotics and AI seem to be a debatable matter in FFXIV, but what about prosthetics? Arms, legs, eyes, noses (...what?). Such possibilities, if they exist, may be good to know for a combatant adventurer.
I know Merri's character has a prosthetic magitek arm, but he's also an ex-Garlean engineer. I imagine such technology would be very difficult to come by in Eorzea for a laymen.
Clockwork technology could also make for an interesting prosthetic arm/leg as well and might be Eorzea's answer to Garlemald's magitek. If the Goldsmiths' Guild can craft life-like automaton minions which perform basic functions, I don't see why they couldn't make an arm or leg perform the functions of walking or flexing of the fingers. The fun trick with RPing as having said clockwork arm, is that it may or may not reliably function when necessary. For instance, the fingers may be able to move and grip, but do so on their own accord (if you have an automaton core in the arm).
(12-11-2014, 03:17 PM)FloriaRaine Wrote: Well, i'm getting a decent bit of "allagan could work" lately now, i think i might try and work that angle, if anyone has any information or lore they could share with me on allagan technologies, it would be greatly appreciated.
Unfortunately, most of the lore surrounding the Allagans tells us what they had, not so much how it worked. All we know is the Allagans were exceedingly technologically and magically advanced - a paragon civilization of mankind. Which is why you may risk some grey area RPing as being ancient Allagan tech. There's little doubt they had the technology (or were at least capable) but how it worked or functioned is another matter entirely.
