(10-17-2013, 04:47 PM)Lament Wrote:(10-17-2013, 04:38 PM)Neero Wrote: Sorry, I forgot to say I was new to RP on this game ._.
Dude, that's absolutely fine! You discover lore as you go, and just adjust your concept. Ishgard is a very strict country, but it's not a sin if you need to twist the lore's arm a bit. If your character has leave to travel (I imagine it'd be difficult to get leave, but screw that), he wouldn't be hunted down.
If you're still leveling, you should start doing quests near Ishgard after the Titan storyline. Chat with NPCs in Coerthas, it'll give you an idea what it's like there.
To expand on Laments suggestion you could also take the approach that he has been ordered from the front lines due to some factor, Twelve knows many of the Ishgardians I met seemed to suffer from a PTSD of a kind (at least the older soldiers).
Or perhaps he, like was suggested, took an indeterminate period of time as "Leave" from what ever family or company he was with before in an effort to improve himself.
You could also play the "assumed dead". If I recall correctly there is a quest line that involves an individual who had been preforming escorts for merchants in Coerthas while he worked to become stronger and earn the right to fight in the front lines. You find out he died during combat with a somewhat unimpressive foe, the superior asks you to alter the truth, gives you the boys ring and enters his name on the list of a watch guard that was attacked by Dragons. You notify the father and he seems at a loss, but not as hard because he died "honorably" perhaps you could alter this to have been under a compassionate superior who has hidden your absence? This would provide a convenient way to introduce conflict down the line..
Just a few thoughts!
