(09-01-2015, 04:28 AM)Oli! Wrote: -Both of these arguments leave us with weird things as well. For example, if we go with your approach, does that mean that Lalafell could have been Knights, too?On a phone and addressing a few points in as organized a way as I can:
There's a Lalafell Gatewarden there, If we can get both Miqo'te and Lalafell in there, who else can we find? What if those guard forces had Duskwights and Roegadyn and Highlanders too? Where did they all go?
What would that mean for Ishgard's Xenophobia?
Similarly, if we go with my approach, wouldn't that mean that houses that hire outsiders would end up being distrusted? Would others make political plays to disgrace that House? Would they lose their status due to trusting outsiders? Wouldn't that make it politically safer not to hire outsiders?
 Part of the nature of speculation is that all arguments have flaws to them.
-It absolutely does mean that lalafell can be citizens and knights.
-I would presume they went to the same place as the smattering of elezen and highlander pirates in 1.0 Limsa did: out of sight.
-It would mean that Ishgard's xenophobia is more in line with certain real world xenophobia, ie you won't be killed for crossing the border but if your kind wants any respect it's gonna take some time, blood, sweat, and tears.
-Not really sure what you're getting at here, as all of this already the case. For temp is stated many times to be under intense scrutiny for its attitude toward adventurers.
-I would argue that while neither position can be 100% confirmed, that does not mean both points of speculation rest on even ground. In my point of view there is significantly greater evidence in support of the position I and others have taken which requires fewer speculative assumptions to reach and which fits uniformly into pre-existing patterns of writing done within the setting.
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