(05-15-2015, 03:52 PM)Faye Wrote: Foreign races, yes, certainly! Au Ra, however... I'm not so sure about. In the storyline, Doma was only recently conquered by the Imperials, and we don't know at this point if the Au Ra live anywhere but in Doma. That means that any adult Au Ra was born a Doman, raised a Doman, and probably ingrained with a strong hate and fear of the Garlean Empire who they so recently saw take their lands by force and spill the blood of their people. While the Garleans do sort of "brainwash" the people they conquer and assimilate them into their armies, I'm not sure enough time has passed to believably say that a character has already been successfully, fully brainwashed and run through the ranks of the Garlean military already. (There are exceptions, of course--maybe your character never had any loyalties to Doma and his peers, and always had some strange desire to serve the Empire.)
Hmm, you make an very good point. I was considering having my Au Ra leaving at an early age in order to join the Empire- An innate attraction to their power and fascinaton with the magitech, and suchlike, causing them to leave of their own volition and join the ranks, drinking in as much of their culture as he possibly can, and then eventually moving to Eorzea, possibly with the invasion force and being left behind, or just recently in order to further his own designs of forming an organisation using what he's learned from Garlemald. It's difficult to try to work this sort of thing out without knowing more about the Au Ra, unfortunately. Heck, I'm not even sure where Doman is in relation to the Empire.Â
Also that sounds really cool, Chris! Definitely going to stalk your RPC profile and see if we can't roleplay someday together!
