Ahhh, Scholars are another one I wonder about. I mean 'scholar' itself, and what they did for Nym doesn't seem like it should be restricted to a place; it's fairly general.
“In an age long past, when mankind flourished under the radiance of arcane mastery, the island of Vylbrand was home to a city-state called Nym. Though the history of that age tells of countless wars waged with earth-shattering incantations, it was the brilliant strategic maneuvering of Nym's scholars that allowed their mundane army of mariners to throw back would-be conquerers time and again. These learned men and women defended the freedom of their tiny nation with their unique command over spell-weaving faeries, utilizing the creatures' magicks to heal the wounded and bolster the strength of their allies.â€
But their method includes fairies. I don't know how exclusive that might be. I mean, a scholar/magic user might be from anywhere and I'm sure they've since dispersed to other places in Eorzea and could teach what they know. I assume they know some spells of their own but I imagine most of what they do is like Orihime from BLEACH; their power lies in their relationship with the fairies they use.
I notice that in a lot of these Game Descriptions, it includes 'In an age long past' 'A long time ago' etc. and that gives me the impression you could pick it up from someone, virtually anywhere, so long as you had the mind to dedicate to it.
If I rolled a Scholar character, I'd probably have a character with an initial lust for knowledge, who learned as much as they could as an Arcanist before witnessing a Scholar in action and begging to be taught.
I -like- making my classes make sense and FFXIV gives you the beeeaaautiful capacity right there in the mechanics to start a character off as a gladiator or a conjurer or an arcanist or any of the starting classes and finding an RPer who's more advanced to teach you their skill. I haven't gotten a chance to do this but if, by some slim... slim hope... Miqo'tes get a little less popular and, say, Siobhain dies (*knocks on wood*) I'd probably take this route and seek out RPers who are playing advanced classes as their main class. There's not really a shortage of them, so much as people who are actually RPing anything to do with a class and not a merchant or a dancer or a general mercenary.
While on one hand I don't see everyone as being a novice at everything unless they're rather young and naive, on the other hand I always get a nice sense of validation and development by starting out with a young or otherwise inexperienced character and finding others to help me develop throughout the course of the game rather than coming in, on like Sio, and feeling obligated to at least get to a level where I -am- a Paladin, in some form of Paladin gear before I start strutting around and calling myself one.
My main downfall is that I wrote waaaaay too much about her. She's extremely detailed for one of my characters.
@ Iseldia: 'While I don't normally want to be a "sparkly magic special person" I will still be making her a White Mage at some point, regardless of how restricted and rare they are "supposed" to be.'
I hope I didn't put the thought in your head that you have to be or not be super, special, or sparkly. I mean, obviously I didn't because you're going to do it, but I've said before and I'll say again-- Don't let the lore-fanatics tell you what to do. The lore is great, it's enjoyable, it's helpful, but what it's -not- is refined. As many pitfalls as we find in the lore and as many dead ends as there are, not completely covering all there is that we want to know, this isn't a game like WoW where you get definitive answers for any tiny questions anyone might have. People are forced to resort to using the skeleton of lore that we've been offered to -try- and disprove or validate ideas but most often we resort to real life and what we know and relating past experiences from reality or other games to this one. It doesn't always work out well.
So I'm glad you're choosing to do one, knowing full well how rare they may (or may not, considering how many I've seen so far) be. No one should let the opinions of others scare them out of doing what they want to do and finding the most logical course of action for it.
“In an age long past, when mankind flourished under the radiance of arcane mastery, the island of Vylbrand was home to a city-state called Nym. Though the history of that age tells of countless wars waged with earth-shattering incantations, it was the brilliant strategic maneuvering of Nym's scholars that allowed their mundane army of mariners to throw back would-be conquerers time and again. These learned men and women defended the freedom of their tiny nation with their unique command over spell-weaving faeries, utilizing the creatures' magicks to heal the wounded and bolster the strength of their allies.â€
But their method includes fairies. I don't know how exclusive that might be. I mean, a scholar/magic user might be from anywhere and I'm sure they've since dispersed to other places in Eorzea and could teach what they know. I assume they know some spells of their own but I imagine most of what they do is like Orihime from BLEACH; their power lies in their relationship with the fairies they use.
I notice that in a lot of these Game Descriptions, it includes 'In an age long past' 'A long time ago' etc. and that gives me the impression you could pick it up from someone, virtually anywhere, so long as you had the mind to dedicate to it.
If I rolled a Scholar character, I'd probably have a character with an initial lust for knowledge, who learned as much as they could as an Arcanist before witnessing a Scholar in action and begging to be taught.
I -like- making my classes make sense and FFXIV gives you the beeeaaautiful capacity right there in the mechanics to start a character off as a gladiator or a conjurer or an arcanist or any of the starting classes and finding an RPer who's more advanced to teach you their skill. I haven't gotten a chance to do this but if, by some slim... slim hope... Miqo'tes get a little less popular and, say, Siobhain dies (*knocks on wood*) I'd probably take this route and seek out RPers who are playing advanced classes as their main class. There's not really a shortage of them, so much as people who are actually RPing anything to do with a class and not a merchant or a dancer or a general mercenary.
While on one hand I don't see everyone as being a novice at everything unless they're rather young and naive, on the other hand I always get a nice sense of validation and development by starting out with a young or otherwise inexperienced character and finding others to help me develop throughout the course of the game rather than coming in, on like Sio, and feeling obligated to at least get to a level where I -am- a Paladin, in some form of Paladin gear before I start strutting around and calling myself one.
My main downfall is that I wrote waaaaay too much about her. She's extremely detailed for one of my characters.
@ Iseldia: 'While I don't normally want to be a "sparkly magic special person" I will still be making her a White Mage at some point, regardless of how restricted and rare they are "supposed" to be.'
I hope I didn't put the thought in your head that you have to be or not be super, special, or sparkly. I mean, obviously I didn't because you're going to do it, but I've said before and I'll say again-- Don't let the lore-fanatics tell you what to do. The lore is great, it's enjoyable, it's helpful, but what it's -not- is refined. As many pitfalls as we find in the lore and as many dead ends as there are, not completely covering all there is that we want to know, this isn't a game like WoW where you get definitive answers for any tiny questions anyone might have. People are forced to resort to using the skeleton of lore that we've been offered to -try- and disprove or validate ideas but most often we resort to real life and what we know and relating past experiences from reality or other games to this one. It doesn't always work out well.
So I'm glad you're choosing to do one, knowing full well how rare they may (or may not, considering how many I've seen so far) be. No one should let the opinions of others scare them out of doing what they want to do and finding the most logical course of action for it.
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