Completely understandable, and at its core... a large portion of this discussion is trying to at least reasonably explain the whole idea in a way that seems reasonable to others - and, to some degree, convincing myself. Heck, my responses to your pre-reqs were basically my way of making excuses for why Gogon "should" be able do it at their core. Of course, ultimately that "do what you think is fun" bit holds quite true... but it's a bit of a personal preference to try and have that reasonable explanation to provide (potentially through a story post or something) that ultimately doesn't impose too harshly on the head-canons of the people I may end up RPing with.
Which would hopefully help avoid the types of situations being mentioned in the thread's side-conversation on the matter. I had a... "fun" situation very early on where I had a person ICly and OOCly berate me for trying to play a Lalafell from Doma. Having something that I could point to as evidence - provided by our wonderful Sounsyy - helped a bunch with that. So, I kinda like having a reasonable explanation for anything that might raise some manner of question.
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... Though, technically, my "reasonings" could mean any other number of Summoners somehow place themselves at the Hinterlands at the point of time travel could potentially gain access to doing such things as well. Which, as you stated, could be a whole situation of them just being "pre-reqs." For all we know, the same "requirements" to access and use the Codex would also be applied to those seeking to use an Alex-Egi or Trance it.
Which would hopefully help avoid the types of situations being mentioned in the thread's side-conversation on the matter. I had a... "fun" situation very early on where I had a person ICly and OOCly berate me for trying to play a Lalafell from Doma. Having something that I could point to as evidence - provided by our wonderful Sounsyy - helped a bunch with that. So, I kinda like having a reasonable explanation for anything that might raise some manner of question.
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... Though, technically, my "reasonings" could mean any other number of Summoners somehow place themselves at the Hinterlands at the point of time travel could potentially gain access to doing such things as well. Which, as you stated, could be a whole situation of them just being "pre-reqs." For all we know, the same "requirements" to access and use the Codex would also be applied to those seeking to use an Alex-Egi or Trance it.
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