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Your only real option, if you want to play a true Whitemage... is to simply break lore. Not the worst crime in the world, you're free to play as you please.
HOWEVER..
Roleplayers game in MMO's because it's easier to create a sense of immersion. Immersion demands a certain amount of adherence to the rules that govern your setting. Herein lies the impasse, because anyone with even the slightest bit of knowledge about the mages isn't going to buy a non-Padjal claiming to be one and it's not fair to those who DO take the setting seriously and extend actual effort to play within it's rules to be forced to toss out everything they'd learned or read to make an impossible character plausible.
That's what makes the Whitemage situation unique among MMO's in general. It's the only class/job I've ever seen where the lore is written in such a way that it, currently, cannot be role-played without being lore-breaking. It's locked down to *that* degree.
Example time... lets say you were a WoW player and your characters background stated that you were one of the small group that faced and defeated the Lich King, and killed Deathwing AND killed Garrosh, three end of expansion bosses. Most role-players wouldn't appreciate that and might consider it obnoxious... but its something that would actually be *possible* within the setting.
I repeat... being one of the worlds elite who played a crucial role in defeated *three* world threatening, nigh unstoppable adversaries and their respective legions, being the savior of an entire setting several times over, is more plausible than your character being a Whitemage.
HOWEVER..
Roleplayers game in MMO's because it's easier to create a sense of immersion. Immersion demands a certain amount of adherence to the rules that govern your setting. Herein lies the impasse, because anyone with even the slightest bit of knowledge about the mages isn't going to buy a non-Padjal claiming to be one and it's not fair to those who DO take the setting seriously and extend actual effort to play within it's rules to be forced to toss out everything they'd learned or read to make an impossible character plausible.
That's what makes the Whitemage situation unique among MMO's in general. It's the only class/job I've ever seen where the lore is written in such a way that it, currently, cannot be role-played without being lore-breaking. It's locked down to *that* degree.
Example time... lets say you were a WoW player and your characters background stated that you were one of the small group that faced and defeated the Lich King, and killed Deathwing AND killed Garrosh, three end of expansion bosses. Most role-players wouldn't appreciate that and might consider it obnoxious... but its something that would actually be *possible* within the setting.
I repeat... being one of the worlds elite who played a crucial role in defeated *three* world threatening, nigh unstoppable adversaries and their respective legions, being the savior of an entire setting several times over, is more plausible than your character being a Whitemage.