I thought I'd like to throw my hat in the ring of this discussion as my character's story for his race change involved glamours, but his appearance wasn't hidden by a glamour. Let me explain.
His tribe has had a magic passed down for generations immemorial that they call spell-weaving, but it's essentially glamour magick. It's what they specialize in, and much of their behaviours as a tribe revolve around this. Since they arrived in Eorzea with the Domans, their spellweavers have kept the entire tribe glamoured as Hyur as to not cause a stir in Eorzea. They've been working in Revenant's Toll, assisting with whatever they can, but mostly building. However, it is a temporary solution for them. They have to be very careful not to give away themselves with their glamours. (i.e. make sure your tail/horns don't brush up against someone and make them suspicious you're not who you appear to be) and also careful not to put themselves in a situation where their glamour might be dispelled. (I.e., since many of the males are involved in construction, they handle all of their materials very carefully. Drop that block of stone/heavy wood on your foot/hands/head and your glamour would be dispelled, so they're *very* careful.) They're currently investigating into how they can smuggle across the Ishgardian border into the harsher northlands.
Now the tribe also have another magick that is even more closely guarded, and that is essentially, shapeshifting through blood magick. It's not a big stretch since we've seen this happen in the 2.0 MSQ with the Insquisitor who changed into a dragon, was able to fight as one. I.e., it was not easily dispelled by combat. And every time a heretic turns into an Aevis, they use a 'Blood of the dragon' spell. So I ran with that concept. I made it my own of course, with a way to reverse it. Now his tribe only uses this shapeshifting for shifting into animals. They believe that doing so borrows the creature's soul, so shapeshifting into another person is forbidden, as it is seen as stealing their soul. In Kairei's case, his mother broke the rules when away from her tribe, and kept it a secret. Recently when his tribe has recontacted him, one of the leaders in the tribe has demanded that if he wants to have any association with the tribe, he must reverse his transformation. So that's why he will be changing back.
Anyway, that's a brief summary of my character's Au Ra transformation, and I thought I would put out the idea of blood magick being the reason for a person's hidden appearance for someone still on the fence as to how to handle their race change, as opposed to straight up glamour.
His tribe has had a magic passed down for generations immemorial that they call spell-weaving, but it's essentially glamour magick. It's what they specialize in, and much of their behaviours as a tribe revolve around this. Since they arrived in Eorzea with the Domans, their spellweavers have kept the entire tribe glamoured as Hyur as to not cause a stir in Eorzea. They've been working in Revenant's Toll, assisting with whatever they can, but mostly building. However, it is a temporary solution for them. They have to be very careful not to give away themselves with their glamours. (i.e. make sure your tail/horns don't brush up against someone and make them suspicious you're not who you appear to be) and also careful not to put themselves in a situation where their glamour might be dispelled. (I.e., since many of the males are involved in construction, they handle all of their materials very carefully. Drop that block of stone/heavy wood on your foot/hands/head and your glamour would be dispelled, so they're *very* careful.) They're currently investigating into how they can smuggle across the Ishgardian border into the harsher northlands.
Now the tribe also have another magick that is even more closely guarded, and that is essentially, shapeshifting through blood magick. It's not a big stretch since we've seen this happen in the 2.0 MSQ with the Insquisitor who changed into a dragon, was able to fight as one. I.e., it was not easily dispelled by combat. And every time a heretic turns into an Aevis, they use a 'Blood of the dragon' spell. So I ran with that concept. I made it my own of course, with a way to reverse it. Now his tribe only uses this shapeshifting for shifting into animals. They believe that doing so borrows the creature's soul, so shapeshifting into another person is forbidden, as it is seen as stealing their soul. In Kairei's case, his mother broke the rules when away from her tribe, and kept it a secret. Recently when his tribe has recontacted him, one of the leaders in the tribe has demanded that if he wants to have any association with the tribe, he must reverse his transformation. So that's why he will be changing back.
Anyway, that's a brief summary of my character's Au Ra transformation, and I thought I would put out the idea of blood magick being the reason for a person's hidden appearance for someone still on the fence as to how to handle their race change, as opposed to straight up glamour.
