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There is nothing preventing anyone from roleplaying as any of FFXIV's jobs. No matter how much anyone else might try to gainsay that through shaming, the truth is that what you roleplay is entirely up to you, and how well your roleplay is received is entirely up to which crowds you roleplay with.
That said, adhering closely to lore out of respect for the setting will mean at least one of two things:
1. If the job in question is extremely rare or almost universally condemned (at the time of writing, that would be WHM and BLM respectively, with SMN and SCH following behind WHM in terms of rarity), then you will more than likely want to write your character such that they go to great lengths to hide and/or conceal their talent(s) from the vast majority of their fellow Eorzeans.
2. If the job in question involves skills or talents that are exceedingly rare or difficult to come by (SMN requires exposure to Primal-aspected aether, SCH requires a pact with a fairy, and WHM involves either the blessing of the elementals or else ridiculously-difficult-to-acquire knowledge), then you will more than likely want to write a backstory for your character that delves into precisely how they managed to achieve, attain, and/or fulfill the basic requirements necessary to be deemed and counted as a SMN/SCH/WHM/whatever.
That said, adhering closely to lore out of respect for the setting will mean at least one of two things:
1. If the job in question is extremely rare or almost universally condemned (at the time of writing, that would be WHM and BLM respectively, with SMN and SCH following behind WHM in terms of rarity), then you will more than likely want to write your character such that they go to great lengths to hide and/or conceal their talent(s) from the vast majority of their fellow Eorzeans.
2. If the job in question involves skills or talents that are exceedingly rare or difficult to come by (SMN requires exposure to Primal-aspected aether, SCH requires a pact with a fairy, and WHM involves either the blessing of the elementals or else ridiculously-difficult-to-acquire knowledge), then you will more than likely want to write a backstory for your character that delves into precisely how they managed to achieve, attain, and/or fulfill the basic requirements necessary to be deemed and counted as a SMN/SCH/WHM/whatever.
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