(03-16-2016, 10:36 PM)Arklonn Sargonnai Wrote: The discussion also went into knowing specific NPCs far early on, not just the WoL, so it kind of went off topic from the beginning. And then it always gets into discussions about power levels, lore about other things, and then it goes here and there and everywhere. We've already determined more or less knowing the WoL directly is impossible more or less since they have no representation in game other than ourselves. So all one can hope to do is be in the same place at the same time, without seeing them. Admittedly even if you did see them, you'd never know. Even if you were at the primal battle *with* them, which one of the eight or more is the WoL? There's not a little token on their head determining it, so honestly IC interactions with ARR's WoL really wouldn't be possible. Now, interactions with the 1.0 Warriors of Light might have been possible since there were more of them, so someone from before the Calamity might can say "Oh yeah, I met that guy" Well. Wait, no, can't remember them, that's right. So yeah, knowing them IC might be impossible as a direct point of view.
But when it went off topic into power levels, what you can and can't do, etc, and everyone was responding to that, I just put my two cents in about that whole mess. /shrug.
That's an entire retraction from your point about people being able to interact with them.
Quote:You know the funny thing? There's nothing that says you haven't met the WoL. But how would you *know* exactly? He/She/It is given menial jobs by 75% of the fucking population, ALL THE TIME. For all you know, you may have met them, asked them to fetch you something, like a barrel of squid, and paid them a pittance of gil because you really needed it, and it was a shop emergency.
So can we know him or not? I understand wanting to say yes and not no to people wanting to do creative things, but this is a little more divisive than just "sure, go for it."
It doesn't change the various levels of power random roleplayers can hope to attain, nor it is "policing" what people say they can do. The premise sets itself: The WoL marches into Ishgard for 3.0 alone, with his allies defeated and missing. Anyone wanting to add onto that by showing up and helping is free to write their own fanfiction, but the story of the game will not ever reflect that.
To repeat: No one is policing what anyone else can or cannot do. The conversation is on what's most believable and how to best "fit in" to the world's lore. NOT the community's lore: The actual, MSQ-based given lore bits we have as of this patch. Being the best friend of a major NPC is problematic.
No one serious ever Wrote:"Oh, I was Drizz't's/Aragorn's/Rand's/Frodo's/Estinien's best mate in school, we're totally best buds."
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