I'm creating this thread to try and understand a few things that have been bothering me for quite a while-ever since my Calming the Inner Beast thread a while back. It seems that I engage in a constant faux pas when it comes to role-playing, and that is integrating the pre-set story line for non RPers into my own timeline. I don't understand why people shy away from this, even though I do understand it's fun to create your own story and play by your own rules. I've read of amazing things like magitek limbs and ancient magics lost to time through the community's own imagination and I love it! By why is it frowned upon to do things like be a member of the Scions of the Seventh Dawn?
A prime example is this. In my character's backstory-what with the patch occurring as I type bringing the sixth umbral era to a close-Zac was an adventurerer who took place in Operation Archon, and was in the party that battled not only Gaius Van Baelsar, but stopped Ultima Weapon from being used against the Eorzea. I see it as this-the 'Adventurer' is the 'main' character in all of Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn, and even though many of us are adventurers, we are not THE Adventurer. To go on, from the destructive power Ultima Weapon had at its disposal, and the sheer amount of unadulterated skill Gaius possessed, that was MUCH more than a low double digit man job.Â
I just deleted about four more paragraphs because I felt I was rambling, so I'll quit beating around the bush and ask. Is integrating key points in the ARR timeline into your backstory acceptable as long as no one person makes it all about them?
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