(10-27-2015, 03:41 PM)Warren Castille Wrote:You could pull a Karasu and give up your soul stone...you'd have the knowledge of what it is to be a ninja from your own experiences, but I don't think you could perform the same feats as a real ninja. This guy said he wanted to be a Doman ninja, not someone pretending to be one >>Â(10-27-2015, 03:38 PM)Ashe Wrote:(10-27-2015, 03:26 PM)Warren Castille Wrote: Rogues and ninja have nothing to do with each other. Ninja quests don't begin at level 1, they begin at level 30.What I meant is that by definition, being a secret sneaky person who doesn't serve a master as a retainer might as well make you a rogue...or a random sneaky spy/thief/assassin at that point. Because by definition, Ninjas are a specific job related to Doma where they serve masters as shinobi with undying loyalty.Â
Using ninja-as-presented-by-the-medium refers to a specific role. If you just want the toolkit, just consider yourself a catch-all assassin or something. It's very similar to how Dragoon infers a specific background and Paladin refers to a specific career.
There's a lot of random lore out there that only gets revealed once you've done the thing connected to it.
The title of ninja is VERY specific.Â
I've played through the job quests 3 times...I know what's up >>
Unless they don't, because unless you can tell someone the whims of every possible master in RP it's perfectly possible to come up with any reason you want as to why you're doing whatever you're doing in roleplay. Perhaps they were sent on a fact-finding mission after years of loyalty? Perhaps they are simply told to take a break in Eorzea until they are needed again. Maybe they're masquerading as a ninja and just conveniently only converse with their master over linkshell when no one's around.
Though, the lore kind of makes it seem like most of the Shinobi aren't even wanted in Doma anymore because lawlz guess who betrayed Doma for the Garleans >>
So....you could masquerade as one...but you wouldn't be a Doman ninja >>
