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I'm fairly open about anyone's roleplay experiences but I'm a huge stickler for lore. Huge. It's what makes the game you're roleplaying in. Bend it all you want, never shove it aside.
I'm in the "respect the lore" camp firmly. If the lore says you can't play a WHM, I will never play one. My characters will not believe you are one if you tell me.
THe thing about 99% of the lore in this game - WHM being in that 1% here - is that the restrictive stuff if easy to get around with some creative thinking. I don't know, I feel like it's almost lazy to go "Well, just gonna ignore that." instead of finding a way around it that completely lore appropriate.
For instance, my guild has a storyline about trying to fight the Primals without the Echo, therefore finding a way around tempering. We've been able to maneuver around lore with this idea, doing test and experiments to see what would work (Our current solution is definitely lore-bending, but adheres to lore completely all the same). I feel like going "Let's just ignore the whole Tempering unpleasantness and fight some Primals ICly" would be completely disrespectful to the lore.
That's my stance on any subject about lore. Respect it. Work around it. Lore is mostly malleable, stop treating it like it's rigid and invisible.
I'm in the "respect the lore" camp firmly. If the lore says you can't play a WHM, I will never play one. My characters will not believe you are one if you tell me.
THe thing about 99% of the lore in this game - WHM being in that 1% here - is that the restrictive stuff if easy to get around with some creative thinking. I don't know, I feel like it's almost lazy to go "Well, just gonna ignore that." instead of finding a way around it that completely lore appropriate.
For instance, my guild has a storyline about trying to fight the Primals without the Echo, therefore finding a way around tempering. We've been able to maneuver around lore with this idea, doing test and experiments to see what would work (Our current solution is definitely lore-bending, but adheres to lore completely all the same). I feel like going "Let's just ignore the whole Tempering unpleasantness and fight some Primals ICly" would be completely disrespectful to the lore.
That's my stance on any subject about lore. Respect it. Work around it. Lore is mostly malleable, stop treating it like it's rigid and invisible.
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