(06-12-2015, 04:46 PM)Natalie Mcbeef Wrote: I question if Heresy can be cleared away like an overdue parking ticket.
I wrote a background of heresy and exile into my own character, and as the expansion came out, her story caused her to cast her eyes.... Heavensward.
The issue was I couldn't really figure out a good justification for the xenophobic and highly religious society of Ishgard forgiving my character's mistakes of the past. At the end of the day, it's your character, but perhaps its more interesting to have the issue unresolved? Perhaps she could sneak in, and work in secret, or under a false identity. Perhaps it could be covered up, only to be uncovered later.
I found that the heresy thing was too interesting and core of a concept to handwave, and you might want to consider the pros/cons of using something traumatic as that as a one off RP hook. As Verad says, there is a certain amount of desperation and foolishness in returning to a city that wants you dead on sight, and why she would go back anyway is a very interesting question to help you define your character.
I think you're misreading me slightly, but that's understandable given how the thread started. My goal is more to understand the details of her situation before providing any specific suggestions for going back than to implicitly say "You can have what you want without going back to Ishgard, so don't do it."
The fact that people might be mean to her if she goes to Ishgard is fine; I'm told that's some of that conflict thing people are all about, and I doubt the society is going to be portrayed as so uniformly absolutist that there can be no possible leeway for her if she goes back as-is. Placing bets on a questline dealing with somebody harboring unjustly accused heretics even now.
Personally I think working with a false identity is her best bet, and to that end OP might be able to find some good criminal groups to help her achieve that and get her into the city on the sly. There's also some good cat-and-mouse to be done there as she maintains the charade in the face of questions and skepticism from the locals.
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