The lore for classes can be a little bit annoying when you consider the stories you encounter. Like the White Mage situation.
But I personally see no issue in a person learning skills or acquiring a title - even if self-inflicted. I don't think it has to work precisely as it does in the storylines, because it would be ludicrous and it would be the same for the Main Scenario quests (Captain Saefinn the hero who took down Ultimate Weapon? Get real), but I would say to acquire the skills and knowledge? There's more than one way to skin a rabbit, but you have to be creative. Like with Warrior, you essentially come across 2 Warriors from a tribe and these 2 Warriors are trying to keep the art of their homeland alive, yet bearing a responsible tone, as the beast is not to be trifled with. SE in a sense make that limiting, but I would say there exists other possibilities - other members of the tribe, people who are not directly mentioned in the story or descendants of said people. Of course, using a training manual can be a bit flawed in that you won't necessarily learn proper technique, but not impossible to learn a technique.
In my MC's back story, Saefinn, his grandfather belong to a Roegadyn and Highlander crew as the only Miqo'te, but they took on like a brother. They called themselves 'The Sons of Lilja' and Lilja was a Hellsguard and whilst he is now dead, he has a bit of family history as far as Warriors go. How does this fit Saefinn? To consider him a Warrior is simply laughable, he doesn't have much brawn and he's more of a strategist, hence he's a self proclaimed 'Scholar Captain' and then giving him Warrior and Scholar as prestige is even more silly. But he has phases of wanting to be physically stronger so that he may take foes head on, he has swung his axe at Sahagin before now. So how will Warrior work into this? He's currently having a bit of a crisis in terms of his family and his history - he feels he's let his good name down, after the death of his only remaining family it has sent him into different mental states. He had a lot of respect for his grandfather and often heard tales of this man Lilja and his crew.
So, I think in his current state of mind he could end up digging the past and whilst he may not become a great Warrior in uncovering Lilja's memoirs, I am certain his curiosity will get the better of him and he will certainly try to learn something from them. Of course, taking the same scenario, somebody who is more inclined to take the Warrior role, they could go the extra mile of using memoirs as a reference with their own Marauder training or perhaps even uncover a soulstone with it.
I also have a White Mage in my character list, but I am currently in the process of seeing how it's feasible for her.
But what kind of Warrior (ish) will he be? A pure amateur, likely the sort to go berserk - really he would have no business playing with this art and it is perhaps reckless of him to try...but he's not always known for making the most sensible decisions and has a history of being wrathful, though he tries to correct himself. Perhaps in discovering Lilja's history, he might be more intrigued in how this 'inner beast' is controlled, given he's been known to have his outbursts and he may assume (perhaps wrongly) that it will allow him to learn to control himself better.
But I personally see no issue in a person learning skills or acquiring a title - even if self-inflicted. I don't think it has to work precisely as it does in the storylines, because it would be ludicrous and it would be the same for the Main Scenario quests (Captain Saefinn the hero who took down Ultimate Weapon? Get real), but I would say to acquire the skills and knowledge? There's more than one way to skin a rabbit, but you have to be creative. Like with Warrior, you essentially come across 2 Warriors from a tribe and these 2 Warriors are trying to keep the art of their homeland alive, yet bearing a responsible tone, as the beast is not to be trifled with. SE in a sense make that limiting, but I would say there exists other possibilities - other members of the tribe, people who are not directly mentioned in the story or descendants of said people. Of course, using a training manual can be a bit flawed in that you won't necessarily learn proper technique, but not impossible to learn a technique.
In my MC's back story, Saefinn, his grandfather belong to a Roegadyn and Highlander crew as the only Miqo'te, but they took on like a brother. They called themselves 'The Sons of Lilja' and Lilja was a Hellsguard and whilst he is now dead, he has a bit of family history as far as Warriors go. How does this fit Saefinn? To consider him a Warrior is simply laughable, he doesn't have much brawn and he's more of a strategist, hence he's a self proclaimed 'Scholar Captain' and then giving him Warrior and Scholar as prestige is even more silly. But he has phases of wanting to be physically stronger so that he may take foes head on, he has swung his axe at Sahagin before now. So how will Warrior work into this? He's currently having a bit of a crisis in terms of his family and his history - he feels he's let his good name down, after the death of his only remaining family it has sent him into different mental states. He had a lot of respect for his grandfather and often heard tales of this man Lilja and his crew.
So, I think in his current state of mind he could end up digging the past and whilst he may not become a great Warrior in uncovering Lilja's memoirs, I am certain his curiosity will get the better of him and he will certainly try to learn something from them. Of course, taking the same scenario, somebody who is more inclined to take the Warrior role, they could go the extra mile of using memoirs as a reference with their own Marauder training or perhaps even uncover a soulstone with it.
I also have a White Mage in my character list, but I am currently in the process of seeing how it's feasible for her.
But what kind of Warrior (ish) will he be? A pure amateur, likely the sort to go berserk - really he would have no business playing with this art and it is perhaps reckless of him to try...but he's not always known for making the most sensible decisions and has a history of being wrathful, though he tries to correct himself. Perhaps in discovering Lilja's history, he might be more intrigued in how this 'inner beast' is controlled, given he's been known to have his outbursts and he may assume (perhaps wrongly) that it will allow him to learn to control himself better.
The Scholar Captain