More wild speculation:
A major part of the MSQ is how to deal with an unkillable, ever-returning foe. The only people capable of defeating them so far is a group of people including: The most important adventurer in Eorzea, the combined knowledge of the best scholars in the land, and a little bit of luck.
If you're not one of those people, and an Ascian wants to kill you, that's it, roll a new character you are D-E-D dead.
As an aside, I'm thinking the "lesser ascians" we see during the 2.1 pursuit quest are just minions of some void variety and not capital-A-Ascian enemies. Again, it's established in a major way that they do not die when killed. Hell, we don't even know for sure if the 2.5 bits so far actually killed anyone! Well, uh, we know one person's dead, but... We know the Ascians have sway in the void, so it makes sense that they are the absolute highest authority.
We also know that Elidibus has a plan in place and the entire other important-looking guys are very, very not wanting to cross him. The idea that those guys would have people beneath them just running around willy-nilly picking on unimportant-in-the-cosmic-sense adventurers is... Pretentious.
As always, though, don't mind the grognards saying no. Just don't expect people to roll with it if you happen to mention you fought and killed an ascian in casual conversation.
Doesn't stop a specific sort of player from thinking they have what it takes to pull it off, though. Every group has a story about That Guy.
A major part of the MSQ is how to deal with an unkillable, ever-returning foe. The only people capable of defeating them so far is a group of people including: The most important adventurer in Eorzea, the combined knowledge of the best scholars in the land, and a little bit of luck.
If you're not one of those people, and an Ascian wants to kill you, that's it, roll a new character you are D-E-D dead.
As an aside, I'm thinking the "lesser ascians" we see during the 2.1 pursuit quest are just minions of some void variety and not capital-A-Ascian enemies. Again, it's established in a major way that they do not die when killed. Hell, we don't even know for sure if the 2.5 bits so far actually killed anyone! Well, uh, we know one person's dead, but... We know the Ascians have sway in the void, so it makes sense that they are the absolute highest authority.
We also know that Elidibus has a plan in place and the entire other important-looking guys are very, very not wanting to cross him. The idea that those guys would have people beneath them just running around willy-nilly picking on unimportant-in-the-cosmic-sense adventurers is... Pretentious.
As always, though, don't mind the grognards saying no. Just don't expect people to roll with it if you happen to mention you fought and killed an ascian in casual conversation.
(03-12-2015, 04:49 PM)FreelanceWizard Wrote: It's like trying to play an Antediluvian or a Methuselah as a PC in Vampire: the Masquerade; they're more forces of nature than characters.
Doesn't stop a specific sort of player from thinking they have what it takes to pull it off, though. Every group has a story about That Guy.
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