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Is it possible to RP as a Griffin Rider? - Firis18 - 02-09-2018
Hi! Been lurking for a while and finally had the nerve to post. My question is can you RP as a griffin rider? I just unlocked the trusted level of the anata beast tribe quest and it is revealed that there is a unit of griffin riders that help the ala mihgo resistance. I had a idea that my character could be a griffin rider for one of the GC (leaning heavily towards Twin Adder), I’m a fan of the black/white/silver gryphon series, thought about pulling from them for character development. My character is an Au Ra Raen and her name is Firis Windrunner.
I hope it is possible as it’s the first inspiration I’ve had in a long time. Please let me know your thoughts. I have the griffin mount from the HW expansion so that is a step in the right direction!
Thank you!
RE: Is it possible to RP as a Griffin Rider? - Ellmida - 02-09-2018
As far as I know the Griffin Riders would be strictly Ala Mhigan. That's not to say you couldn't find an excuse to have an Au Ra griffin rider (as evidenced by those rping dragoons there are several creative ways to get around this icly) But you might have a harder time of it if the story is not convincing to others.
RE: Is it possible to RP as a Griffin Rider? - Firis18 - 02-09-2018
So far as we know it’s only the ala mihgo, but I could say she’s part of a tribe of raen who live in another part of hydaelyn who fight with griffins, as we saw in the Azim steppe, the Xaela/raen fight with the Vol. Why can’t the griffin riding be known by others some where else? Hydaelyn has been around for a long time so other people could learn and there are a lot of unexplored areas.
RE: Is it possible to RP as a Griffin Rider? - Ellmida - 02-09-2018
It's...possible? But you're also looking at what is native to the land. I mean generally the reason we don't all ride horses in Eorzea is because they're not native to the continent and vise versa with Othard, in fact to these respective cultures such mounts are really a foreign concept, Griffins tend to be native to Ala Mhigo in general and from what little we've been able to see developed for specifically that region. I usually go by a rule of thumb if you have to do a lot of additional world building to explain your character it's going to be harder to get others to go along with it because very few people are going to accept an info dump for why your character makes sense.
-You're creating an entirely new tribe.
-An isolated Tribe is aware of and trains Griffons
-These Griffon-riding Au Ra were also aware and concerned about the political and revolutionary plight of Ala Mhigans in another continent and risked flying through Garlean airspace to reach Eorzea but could not be bothered to help out their neighboring Doma.
-Or these Au Ra were always in Eorzea and somehow immigrated from Doma hundreds of years ago and went somewhat un-noticed in the space of time where Garleans were crushing any resistance.
You need to also understand that the Autumn War (the time a hundred years ago when Ala Mhigo chose to outright invade the shroud) is a thing and there's still animosity today between Gridanians and Ala Mhigans, so much that Mhigan refugees were not actually allowed to settle in Gridania because the elementals were still pissed off about it.
Now I'm not saying there is not a possible way for you to work this, I think though you might be served better taking a low impact approach with your idea.
You say you want your Au Ra Raen to be a Griffin rider? Well we're assuming most of the Griffin riders were decimated when the Garleans took over but maybe they're looking to rebuild, maybe your Raen has that sort of gumption to stand up and insist she learn how to ride griffins so here's some options.
-She came across a wounded/abandoned griffin and befriended it.
-She heard tales of Griffin riders of old and took it upon herself to try to rebuild the ranks.
-She fought her way in for a spot among new recruits.
-She was assigned to become a griffin rider as some sort of Grand Company Ala Mhigo initiative and her unit is a new experimental group of Griffin Riders being tested out as an add on to normal operations.
As a disclaimer, you're free to rp however you wish, there's actually no restriction. I only want to give you these suggestions as a better workaround for what you want and what might create some interesting rp opportunities for your character in the world as this may encourage more people to play off the idea?
RE: Is it possible to RP as a Griffin Rider? - Firis18 - 02-10-2018
Ooh I like the befriend and help an injured griffin! I could say she learns how to ride and fight with him/her from a ala mihgan who is a former griffin rider. Right now, I took out the griffin rider part of my search information as I can’t even use the mount just yet. Still only level 1. I went the creating a new tribe as I read a wiki where the player created a tribe that based their lore on that they were dragons, so I was going that route.
Another was she and her griffin are from a original story’s world and are thrown into Eorzea by portal or alchemic item goes awry.