(09-08-2013, 04:31 AM)Remilia Scarlet Wrote: Normally things can become complicating when your RP story has relations with the game's story.
In FFXIV, being a white mage is being a white mage. If you choose to do the profession and choose to connect it to your lore, it's much like deciding you want to join a Grand Company ICly or become a Sultansworn. You, of course, have the option of choosing another, less sparkly path, but everyone has the freedom to choose and if one decides to go with something that has a lore skeleton they need to work within, they should.
The fact that male Miqo'te are rare, like Sin'dorei being rare in Warcraft, certainly didn't slow down many RPers. So White Mages being rare doesn't mean you can't be one, it merely means you need to go through the steps. It's still not as difficult or -exceedingly- rare as making a Padjal character or one of the Circle of Knowing.
It can be 'complicating' in the sense that others might try to drive a point home with you about how they don't approve of the character you've made because it's just so uber super hard to be a White Mage according to lore, but many other people choose to do something simple or not even have any profession/job skills/affiliation whatsoever. Do what you feel is right and for every one super special snowflake there'll be fifty not-so-special snowflakes.
What's confusing for me is the (admittedly rare) occasion where someone -isn't- relating their RP to the game's story. Like... at all. Demon-cats from an alternate universe? *nod* I've seen it happen, long ago in 1.0.
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And I'm not sure what they did. Like I said, I'm thinking immortality. The only other thing I could imagine doing with White Magic is necromancy but I haven't seen any such thing relating to that so I doubt it even exists. I also imagine torturing people to death and rezzing them over and over again until they forfeit. That's a way to abuse dem White Mage powers!
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