(07-25-2014, 04:14 AM)LiadansWhisper Wrote:(07-24-2014, 05:31 PM)Unnamed Mercenary Wrote: I kinda see the Garleans as having just as much aether as any other hyur, but that they lack the ability to consciously use it. That's why in terms of abilities, they shy away from magic (one could say they have no aether reserves), but they certainly are physically weak. It just so happens that their magitek gadgets make up for the difference in their combat styles.Â
I'd have expected Garleans to have slightly more defined gender roles in this sense. If we judge based off of the regular enemies, and named characters, we really only have a single Garlean female with power, with higher/equal ranking men. And all of the "regular" Garlean soldiers have always appeared to be male models and have male voices. But then, maybe they're just sending a male-only army to Eorzea. We don't have enough lore on them.
I don't know if you noticed this or not, but the only female we see with Garlean forces who has some kind of power is also warming Gaius's bed.
I'm pretty sure there's a reason for that. Â They really do strike me as rather chauvanistic.
That was the exact character I was referencing. While Livia sas Junius isn't exactly incompetent, it's pretty clear she probably had to bend the rules a lot to get to her postion in the military. Especially when other non-pure Garleans seemed perfectly able to get a high ranking, like Rhitahtyn sas Arvina. ...But seeing as Gauis was rather.....accepting of people compared to Nael, it could just be a different ideology. We won't really know more until SE gives us more to go on.
Personally, I'd like to know how a Garlean civilian would act like. Who's to say they even really know what's going on if they aren't associated with the military.
