(05-07-2015, 03:37 PM)Verad Wrote:(05-07-2015, 03:26 PM)Kayllen Wrote: I dunno, I find it to be far more impressive for someone to play within the boundaries of the given sandbox than intentionally breaking the walls of it to suit a desired narrative. True creativity is shaping your works with the tools that you're given; not outsourcing the product to China =P
That said, there's nothing wrong with some creative liberties here and there. I'm pretty sure every writer ever has done that.
You discover that SE declares Dragoon fighting styles to be highly proscribed, and they have nothing to do with the Circle of Blades. It would be considered a terrible thing, in-setting, for such a character to have such a style, by lore, and no Temple Knight would ever use it. How do you retcon it?
I would change it to whatever the proscribed style of fighting is in the lore, since, by the given example such a proscribed style of fighting would be highly detailed in said content drop.Â
Adding to that it can simply be something passed down from father to son, too. It doesn't really change anything to do with the character and the back story is easily tailored to accommodate such a change.
I'd also be pretty surprised if SE ever did such a thing since 'fighting styles' in FF14 are almost all singularly based on the weapon rather than how that weapon is used. It's an extremely unlikely hypothetical but there you have it.
Also I see you perused my character wiki which makes you like... the fifth person in the world to do so lol. A couple points of clarification: the Circle of Blades was only taught in that group of Temple Knights as a means of perfect defense. Said group of Temple Knights were all wiped out due to a political betrayal. It is possible for the fighting style to be used with weapons other than sword-and-shield as it is a mindset more than a fighting style though it does favor the sword by virtue of its original design (La Destreza Spanish Fencing). Lastly there are only likely a small handful of surviving practitioners and only one of those is confirmed (Kayllen).
Regardless SE coming in to say "the TK's only fight THIS way and NO OTHER WAY", is not going to be a problem as I've taken all that into account beforehand. =)
