LiadansWhisper

Since they're referred to as a Beast Tribe in some quest text, I think it's very unlikely that we'll see them as player characters even if they do make an appearance.

Well, ah, no, not really, since they don't actually control the use of Succor. No one was left around to teach it (...that we know of...) and after that they only taught it to the Padjal, who haven't taught it to anyone else but the Warrior of Light. Probably. I mean, you can say you found one if you want. I maintain that a White Mage soulstone is not, however, required to actually learn White Magic. It just makes it easier. Still, as Franz pointed out, there are really heinous monsters in those ruins. Most people wouldn't survive the expedition. Sources in-game seem to suggest that both schools are forbidden, but also that they are both forgotten. At one point after the Calamity that ended the Fifth Astral Era, at least, people were actively hunting down both White and Black Mages. Then you haven't been looking very hard. https://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/showthread.php?tid=13072&pid=206088#pid206088 The speaker is Oha-Sok, the Elemental who gives you your White Mage vestments in 1.0.

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There's a difference between what we, as players, know and what our characters know. I know OOC that voidsent were once people who weren't that dissimilar to my character. My character, on the other hand, believes them to be demons that corrupt all they come into contact with. And this is a fairly widespread belief.

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People not showing up at the Quicksand, or the Grindstone, or the Runestone, or whatever other event you want to put out there, doesn't mean that RP is dying on Balmung. Most players never went to those locations or events in the first place.

I can vouch for his scams. Not sure about this whole "luck" thing, though. But scams, for sure. DON'T BUY ANYTHING FROM HIM OK.

Frankly, I feel like this is giving way too much leeway to people who are blatantly metagaming. The only thing they deserve is a spot on your Blacklist, imo.

Seriously, tell them to fuck off. Send me a tell, and I will do it for you. Ignore godmodders and metagamers. They are not worth your time, they are not worth your energy, your stress or your tears. If they have no valid IC reason to know you are Dotharl, then don't acknowledge them. Blacklist, blacklist, blacklist. While I may not be at my gentle max at the moment (seriously, my empathy button took a hard nose dive after I clocked out at work, because I've had people in my face all day, so I hope you'll excuse me for being harsher than normal), try not to read too much tone into my text. I don't have the best text tone, but that's not really something I can fix barring spamming the board with emoji. The problem, as it was presented to us, was that people were ICly harassing your Dotharl characters for being Dotharl. I didn't see it mentioned until your post that people were literally just walking up and reading nametags and using that as justification, which is 150% shitty on their part. When people pointed out that, hey, Dotharl get treated like that because they have a really terrible reputation, the response was basically, "But I don't have fun with this, I don't want conflict RP." The central issue here, to my mind, is that if you don't want conflict RP, you don't make a character that inspires conflict RP, nor one that seeks it out. So while your characters may not actively be seeking out conflict RP, they're carrying a tribal name around that attracts Conflict RP to them. If the issue is purely IC - and not metagamers - then your choices are to a) not mention that they're Dotharl (with removes the IC justification for someone to get into a fight with them for being Dotharl), or, if you want to be able to RP openly as Dotharl but without having unwanted Conflict RP, don't RP in public. Because...I mean...characters are gonna be that way. I'm not saying not to RP your character at all. I'm saying, don't openly play a Dotharl. There's a difference. It's not "not RPing your character" if you just lie about your tribe or fail to mention it. Unless that would go against your character concept, and your character would be loud and proud about being a Dotharl. But then you run into the issue of...the Dotharl have a really bad IC reputation. So, I mean... ¯\(°_o)/¯ Take this however you like.

Which is terrible. Unfortunately, Eorzea is, in fact, a terrible place. There's some quote somewhere that states something along the lines that every race in Eorzea is sexually compatible. They can all make babies with each other, if they try. So why isn't Eorzea overrun with halflings? Because the races unconsciously hate each other so much that they rarely engage in cross-race copulation. In Gridania, if you're a Duskwight, you can expect to encounter awful treatment at the hands of just about everyone. It's nearly impossible for you to advance in any of the guilds based in Gridania, because they hate Duskwights. If you're accused of poaching, or breaking some other law in the Shroud, don't expect to be exonerated - even if you're innocent. Duskwights are always guilty. Take all that, and replace "Duskwight" with "Keeper of the Moon," and just dial it back ever so slightly. And don't get me started about how things work in Garlemald. We are not talking about enlightened individuals. Racism is alive and well in Eorzea, and it shows no sign of retiring anytime soon. Stop telling people that you're Dotharl. Pretend to be another tribe. Barring that, stop RPing in public. There are your solutions. Actually, the rest of what I wrote completely connects with the topic, as it explains why you're getting those reactions in the first place. But you do you, boo.

You two are bad influences.

I mean, I get it. It's tiring when you see your character one way, and everyone else seems to see it another. I've run into that a time or two. The thing is, you are expecting every other character to have that intimate knowledge about the Dotharl that only comes out for the Warrior of Light and his/her companions during Stormblood. When, in reality, the vast majority of people will have only heard about the Dotharl from other Xaela - other Xaela whose tribes the Dotharl have raided and massacred. Like, the Hotgo. So, I mean, it's really not surprising at all that most players view the Dotharl in the light of being savage warmongers when that is their reputation to other tribes of their own people. I get that your character isn't a warmonger. That's awesome. The thing is, no one else is gonna know that if the only thing they know about your character is that she carries the name Dotharl. They're going to assume - cause people do this shit all the time - that she is culturally Dotharl. And to everyone not Dotharl, the Dotharl are basically savage warmongers who kill men, women, and children indiscriminately. I'm not trying to be a debbie downer or anything, I'm just saying that this is the reaction the name "Dotharl" does, and probably should, inspire among characters who have no firsthand knowledge of the tribe or its customs. Okay, but that's all we had to go on at the time. We had very little information about the Dotharl, but the one thing that seriously stuck out was that they exterminated the better part of an entire tribe - men, women, and children alike - without hesitation. So...yeah, people who wanted to play that archetype rolled Dotharl. I mean, I'm not even certain that what we see in Stormblood goes for every group of Dotharl, or whether it's similar to what we have with the Keepers of the Sun, where the book says that their tribes work one way, but the only tribes we see in-game work exactly the opposite and are the "exceptions to the rule." Okay, but what does that have to do with anything? So some people playing Hotgo - the tribe that was quite literally murdered nearly to the last man by the Dotharl - played bad guys. Okay. That's just like you playing a Dotharl who isn't a warmonger. Player characters are generally the exception, not the rule. I mean, probably not? On the one hand, you have people who are reacting solely to reading the name above your heads - that is godmodding and you don't want to play with them anyway. Just put them on ignore and shut them out. On the other hand, though, you have people who find out IC that you and yours are Dotharl, and are reacting to in-character prejudices. You're asking other players to modify their justified in-character behavior because you don't like that tribe you chose to play has a terrible reputation outside of said tribe. ¯\(°_o)/¯ I have no idea how to solve that. Seriously. Other than telling people that you aren't interested in RPing with them. Which kind of defeats the purpose of public RP.

But um...y'all are playing Dotharl. I've seen plenty of Xaela RP without any problems. But the name "Dotharl" conjures up a lot of things, and few if any are good. I know that my character, who only knows of the Dotharl tribe through her Xaela friends - who are, as it happens, almost exclusively Hotgo - believes the Dotharl to be savage baby killers. While she isn't going to walk up to random Xaela and start yelling at them, mention "Dotharl" in conversation and she's likely to have a serious issue with you. It's not OOC, tho. I mean, if you play a tribe that is widely hated, I think most people assume that you picked the name deliberately - with all that entails.

I have a Facebook account for my real life, and I'm not really interested in crossing my RL and fantasy streams. I do have a Tumblr, tho!

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Welcome! I'm not on Mateus, but I know there is a thriving community there. Hopefully someone will roll in with the Mateus Discord information soon.

Welcome! I am not on Malboro, but I wish you luck in your quest!

Welcome! I don't play on Omega but I hope you find a great group there!

I got all these updated. Sorry for the delay (and I still need to fix the formatting, but that's going to have to wait for now). Also, hi Baen! I just realized that was you!

Unnamed Mercenary has saved us all!!!!!11!!!!

There's nothing wrong with that type of RP. It's just, the post gives us absolutely nothing to go off of - no description. Just "female Miqo'te looking for a Master." It reads more like an OOC personals ad, I guess!

This...doesn't really seem like an RP post? You realize this is an RP website, right? It's not a BDSM meetup, yeah?

I probably should have checked this before now, but I hadn't. It appears that the forum port has screwed up my post pretty badly. I will try to look into it this weekend to get it fixed. Sorry about that, guys. :-\