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Sigyn Shieldbreaker · **09-08-2013, 12:07 AM**

(09-08-2013, 12:01 AM)LiadansWhisper Wrote: Something to keep in mind...

Apparently White Mages don't just grow on trees. Â In fact, you can't be one without being taught the art and the Padjal have been restricting that teaching to their race for quite some time.

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SpoilerIn the White Mage questline, you learn that you're the first non-Padjal White Mage in hundreds of years, perhaps longer, because non-Padjal have been deemed "too risky" to be given the knowledge of the Art of Succor.

With that in mind, you'd have to have convinced one of them that you were worthy (which would seem to be no small task), and then hidden the fact that you were a completely selfish, self-serving person during the training itself. Â And then if you were to succeed in all of that, you'd still have to consider that the Padjal would be unlikely to be okay with you running around abusing your power. Â It's highly likely they'd send someone (or multiple someones) to prevent you from further abusing it.

So while I'm not saying that it's impossible by any means, I think that for it to be believable, you'd have to take the consequences of such a situation into account, as well.

This is true.

Also, this:

After the abuse of magical energies that led to the Sixth Umbral Era, both white and black magic became forbidden arts. The Padjal are children sanctioned by the elementals to conjure at full strength, particularly in favor of white magic. More recently the elementals have allowed Conjurers to use a portion of that power under the guidance of the Padjal, but only a select few ever become White Mages.

Makes me think that even being a White Mage is rather rare. Still, so long as he's not evil and using White Magic for evil purposes, I could see him making a profit from it, so long as he's not neglecting or refusing those in actual need.

He doesn't have to be an evil person, or a particular altruistic person, to dedicate the time and energy to learning the art. He might, perhaps, even be able to excuse his desire to trade his skill for currency if he were a follower of Nald'thal? Not exactly a stretch since I can't think of a god off hand who's a deity of healing/life specifically.

Though, again, this just raises the issue of the number of White Mages or people who RP as White Mages.

Can Someone be a Self-Serving White Mage?

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