I was honestly afraid of the kind of responses this thread would get when I saw the title... But I do RP that Astrid is a White Mage, so I thought I'd offer my two cents.
For anyone here that RPed in GW2, there's a group your character could join called the Order of Whispers. It's essentially a spy organization. Typically, if you're an RPer and you're an OoW member? You just... don't tell anyone. Unless a) they find out through RP, b) they're a fellow OoW member and you give them OOC permission to recognize your character, or c) you join a guild full of OoW members in which situation B just becomes larger scale, basically.
Long story short: Astrid keeps it a secret. (Just as Liadan suggested in her first post.)
Does Astrid run around Gridania shouting that she's a White Mage? No. Only in the most extreme of emergencies (one such emergency being when her girlfriend was accidentally sliced across the chest by a marauder) does she use WHM abilities (which she would pass off as normal CNJ abilities if questioned anyway). And even then she gives herself pretty strict guidelines for when and when not to use them (typically no more than 3 active witnesses is one example). Otherwise, she doesn't touch them.
As for how she became a WHM, I'm treating it as though she was taught the art by a mentoring WHM. White Magic has not been wiped out though it is now a forbidden art and it is more than likely that Raya-O-Senna and her little brother aren't the only WHMs left in existence. If I'm still RPing in FFXIV months from now, I will be treating Astrid as an actual SCH ICly, too. I have an even better explanation for that -- the character of a friend of mine who was RPing as a SCH was killed ICly, so Astrid (with the help of another character acting as her off-screen mentor) will be learning the abilities directly from his grimoire.
Do I think this is the best way I could handle things? Nah. Do I find it to be a fairly logical solution that's not too farfetched? Yeah.
For anyone here that RPed in GW2, there's a group your character could join called the Order of Whispers. It's essentially a spy organization. Typically, if you're an RPer and you're an OoW member? You just... don't tell anyone. Unless a) they find out through RP, b) they're a fellow OoW member and you give them OOC permission to recognize your character, or c) you join a guild full of OoW members in which situation B just becomes larger scale, basically.
Long story short: Astrid keeps it a secret. (Just as Liadan suggested in her first post.)
Does Astrid run around Gridania shouting that she's a White Mage? No. Only in the most extreme of emergencies (one such emergency being when her girlfriend was accidentally sliced across the chest by a marauder) does she use WHM abilities (which she would pass off as normal CNJ abilities if questioned anyway). And even then she gives herself pretty strict guidelines for when and when not to use them (typically no more than 3 active witnesses is one example). Otherwise, she doesn't touch them.
As for how she became a WHM, I'm treating it as though she was taught the art by a mentoring WHM. White Magic has not been wiped out though it is now a forbidden art and it is more than likely that Raya-O-Senna and her little brother aren't the only WHMs left in existence. If I'm still RPing in FFXIV months from now, I will be treating Astrid as an actual SCH ICly, too. I have an even better explanation for that -- the character of a friend of mine who was RPing as a SCH was killed ICly, so Astrid (with the help of another character acting as her off-screen mentor) will be learning the abilities directly from his grimoire.
Do I think this is the best way I could handle things? Nah. Do I find it to be a fairly logical solution that's not too farfetched? Yeah.
