(10-12-2013, 10:21 PM)Twinflame Wrote: Lore is lore. I think it's a bit sad and silly, but it's still the book we're all reading out of to get things done. "Nobles" in Ul'dah refers to rich folk. I don't even know what nobles in Gridania are, but I guess they've got them there too.
On that note, one of my characters is a noble now. Okay then! lol
*shrugs* Â The quest text called them nobles. Â I have no idea who they are, except for that chick we put down in Haukke Manor. Â Otherwise, they all seem holed up in that one section of town we can see into, but can't get into.
If you talk to the guard outside the closed district, he says, and I quote, "The district beyond is home to distinguished Gridanians. Â Commoners may not enter. Â That includes you, adventurer. Â Go back whence you came, or I will be forced to remind you of your place."
So apparently, we have Commoners, which would imply that those behind the gates are not Commoners. Â Oh, and we have a place, too.
Gee, where have I heard this language before?
(I agree with you that it seems terribly out of place given all of the other freaking quests we've done, but it's there. Â I don't know why it's there, I just know that it is there, even if it seems really strange.)
Edited to Add: I was mistaken. It's called the "Gentrys Ward." What is "Gentry," you ask? Well, here's what Wikipedia says:
Gentry (origin Old French genterie, from gentil, "high-born, noble") denotes "well-born and well-bred people" of high social class, especially in the past. Gentry, in its widest connotation, refers to people of good social position connected to landed estates (see manorialism), upper levels of the clergy, and "gentle" families of long descent who never obtained the official right to bear a coat of arms.
In England, the term often refers to the social class of the landed aristocracy or to the minor aristocracy (see landed gentry) whose income derives from their large landholdings. The idea of gentry in the continental sense of "noblesse" is extinct in common parlance in England, despite the efforts of enthusiasts to revive it. Though the untitled nobility in England are normally termed gentry, the older sense of "nobility" is that of a quality identical to gentry.
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