(02-01-2014, 10:46 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote:(02-01-2014, 10:31 PM)Seriphyn Wrote: Question; was the person who "arrested" your character donned up in full Flames attire? If I'm seeing that screenshot right, it's a black mage?Â
My Flames LS/FC copy the NPC uniform (from the overcoats to the open shirts out in the field)...we do this to claim validity, but not authority. If they were donned up as a black mage, then your character had every power to be like "Who are you? You're not in a Flame uniform". At best, it would be a member of the Free Brigade (which the game assumes all Immortal Flames player characters are in by default), and the adventurer units in the Grand Companies probably have lesser authority than the main fighting units.
Otherwise, it looks like a part-time employment of GC membership just when it is convenient. Among my group, we roleplay membership as a full-time thing, not something to deploy when we feel like it.
From the description the OP gave, I think she ICly knew the Flame in question.
Ah, I see. Still though, not aware of any black mages with a relic weapon who are full-time Flame soldiers >_> There are some thaumaturges, though, but even they are in the shirt/sarouel uniform in cutscenes.
Maybe it's nitpicky, but IMO if you want to roleplay a Grand Company soldier with authority, gotta make -some- effort to follow the lore of the game world. The Grand Companies are fully professional outfits with uniforms and regulations after all...
Or as was mentioned on another thread, even adventurers might be able to 'turn someone in' to the authorities given how much adventurers are used. Perhaps this black mage was a member of the Free Brigade, and in-universe can be said to be following those lines.
