The Monk lore is very iffy, and there are people on this website who would be able to give you a lot more detail than I can, so take this with a grain of salt. The gist of it, however, is that there was a group of Rhalgr worshippers in Gyr Abania who wanted to get as close to their idea of Rhalgr as possible, and the way they did this was by taking large concentrations of aether in to their body to make them capable of all sorts of wacky crap e.g. Elixer Field.
The vast majority of them were wiped out 25 years before ARR, but there are some that remain, and plenty of RPers who play one, if your character needed a tutor. It should be noted, however, that one of the main purposes of Fist training (A combat-oriented sect of the Monks) is to make your body able to take in aether so you can do aforementioned funky moves. Even if someone stumbled upon a large concentration of aether, which appears in places of mass violent deaths (namely warzones, which is why Gyr Abania was so perfect for it), and managed to absorb it, without the proper training it would tear their body apart. Whether a soulstone helps in the process of this, I'm not too sure as I'm going off of memory here.
So in general, it's rather hard to become a Monk and even harder to gain the kind of power seen in the WoL's Monk quest. The man (a miqo'te, actually) unlocked all 14 of his chakras, and when the WoL does the same, their HP regenerates to the point where you could probably afk with decent enough gear and you wouldn't die, not to mention one-shotting the man's disciples with even your low damage skills. I'd recommend doing the Monk storyline to get an idea for the lore (especially the light v shadow sect crap), and poking someone like Sounsyy or Ave (the main Monk RPer I know of, and she's got a pretty solid understanding of the lore and how Monk skills work imo).
Off the top of my head, there's a few ways your character can be(or become) a Monk. These aren't the only ones though, just the most obvious.
To give an idea as to how hard unlocking chakras are, the main villain in the Heavensward Monk quests was seemingly obsessed with it and only managed to unlock all 14 by the time he was in his mid-50's. I've probably left something out in this, but I wrote it on the bus. Good luck with your character!
The vast majority of them were wiped out 25 years before ARR, but there are some that remain, and plenty of RPers who play one, if your character needed a tutor. It should be noted, however, that one of the main purposes of Fist training (A combat-oriented sect of the Monks) is to make your body able to take in aether so you can do aforementioned funky moves. Even if someone stumbled upon a large concentration of aether, which appears in places of mass violent deaths (namely warzones, which is why Gyr Abania was so perfect for it), and managed to absorb it, without the proper training it would tear their body apart. Whether a soulstone helps in the process of this, I'm not too sure as I'm going off of memory here.
So in general, it's rather hard to become a Monk and even harder to gain the kind of power seen in the WoL's Monk quest. The man (a miqo'te, actually) unlocked all 14 of his chakras, and when the WoL does the same, their HP regenerates to the point where you could probably afk with decent enough gear and you wouldn't die, not to mention one-shotting the man's disciples with even your low damage skills. I'd recommend doing the Monk storyline to get an idea for the lore (especially the light v shadow sect crap), and poking someone like Sounsyy or Ave (the main Monk RPer I know of, and she's got a pretty solid understanding of the lore and how Monk skills work imo).
Off the top of my head, there's a few ways your character can be(or become) a Monk. These aren't the only ones though, just the most obvious.
- Ask for tutoring from another Monk RPer and go from there. I imagine it'd realisticaly take years of training just to be able to unlock one chakra, so this isn't great if you're looking to be a monk for the power aspect.
- Have your character have been a Fist of Rhalgr from Ala Mhigo, although they'd have to be at the very least in their late 30's to have had enough training.
- Your character was tutored by a NPC Fist of Rhalgr and is carrying on their training with some practical uses. The shadow sect were exiled iirc and one of their members could've done it, or a light sect who survived.
To give an idea as to how hard unlocking chakras are, the main villain in the Heavensward Monk quests was seemingly obsessed with it and only managed to unlock all 14 by the time he was in his mid-50's. I've probably left something out in this, but I wrote it on the bus. Good luck with your character!
