LiadansWhisper

I'm getting real tired of people not staying dead. At this rate, I want the option for my character to behead her enemies and stick the heads in a bag or something. You know, just in case.

Hello! I see you are on Mateus. I don't know about the Linkshells or FCs on that server (although I urge you to check out the Linkshell Hall and Free Company hall to find groups there!), but I do know there's a Discord for Mateus. I hunted around and found this link: https://discord.gg/HPbYNFU Hope that helps! Also, welcome!

Hello, welcome! I don't know of any RP groups on Louisoix, but I do know that Omega has groups. I recommend you go check out the Linkshell and FC Halls sections on the forums. Good luck out there!

Apologies, guys, but the holidays ate me! I got these updated! 8-)

Hello, welcome! I don't know if there are any RP groups on Coerul, but right not the most active and open locations for RP are Mateus for the NA Datacenter, and Omega for the EU Datacenter. For lore, I recommend you check out the Lore section of the forums. There's lots of useful information there!

I think some of the ridiculous backlash definitely ran off more than a few budding talents.

Hello! The information you are seeking can be found by perusing the Linkshell and Free Company Halls. Here is a link to the Linkshells we have listed for Omega: http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=15&filtertf_srvr=Omega And here is a link to the Free Companies we have listed for Omega: http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/forumdisplay.php?fid=53&filtertf_srvr=Omega

Forgotten Realms: Cormyr, Cormyr and the Dalelands, and Styss. Balmung is currently locked. However, there is an active and thriving community on Mateus, which is not locked!

The issue with the free trial is that you can't send or receive whispers, as far as I know, and you can't join parties or FCs or Linkshells. You also can't receive in-game mail, iirc.

Gosh I miss Neverwinter Nights. Maybe the new Enhanced edition coming out will revive the persistent world servers there! I think you can find meaningful RP in FFXIV, even with an abbreviated schedule.

I've added these both!

The harmfulness of eating parts of said voidsent? What are you basing that off of, if I may ask? Wasn't it killing him? Like, it left no lasting damage once removed, but wasn't he going to die because it was inhabiting him? But they weren't inhabited, they were cursed. The voidsent inhabited something else.

Can you? Well, of course! You can do anything you want to. Of course, my mama always told me that just because you can do something doesn't mean you should do it.

You could always put it behind spoiler tags.

I don't play an Au Ra myself, but I don't think that the Lore itself supports any of what you've listed. I seem to recall a statement that Au Ra don't have especially "better" hearing than the other races. I want to activate the Sounsyy flag right about now.. Unless you're not looking for Lore explanations. But if you're only interested in head-canon, the Lore forum is an odd place for this thread.

Omega is another server, on the EU datacenter, that has roleplayers. Welcome! Your English is very good!

Well, right now I'm mostly splitting my time between here and ESO. In ESO I play a Bosmer named Larawen who has gotten herself into a real pickle in Morrowind. It's a long story. I dabbled extensively in Second Life for a long time, and I occasionally consider going back to RP there, but right now I have nothing going on.

Welcome back! It's still very RP heavy.

Hello and welcome! Unfortunately, I can't offer much in the way of leads on RP for Midgardsormr. The only FC I was able to find is located on this thread: http://ffxiv-roleplayers.com/showthread.php?tid=20804 I don't see anything in the Linkshell hall for them. Most RP is honestly concentrated on Balmung, Gilgamesh, Mateus, and Omega. Balmung is currently locked, but Mateus or Omega might be good options if you're open to trying another server? Anyway, good luck!

I'm okay with the server lock except that I have friends I have encountered in other games who desperately want to come play on Balmung and can't. That has sapped my own engagement to an extent.

Somewhere in Gyr Abania is an enclave of White Mages descended from survivors of the 6th Umbral Era. :roll: C'mon, SE...please...

As someone who actively played both factions on Moon Guard from 2009ish until around 2014...this is literally the first time I've heard of this.

I actually haven't done the 60 - 70 WHM quests on my main yet, although I am in the process of leveling it up. I'll definitely scrutinize the quest text there, just to see if there's further elaboration since Koji didn't give us much else to work off of. Alas, no. More is not explained there. White Magic is referred to, yes, but what is actually going on in the questline has nothing to do with White Magic. You just happen to be more trusted because you are a "White Mage of standing." The thing is, there's no reason you would need to specifically be a White Mage for your character to be motherly. In fact, the only thing in that trope link that fits White Mage specifically is that the character in question usually wields White Magic. Literally everything else can be accomplished with a Conjurer. In fact, the bulk of your healing abilities don't come from White Mage at all - they're Conjurer abilities. There's no reason for us to even believe that White Mages are particularly motherly or kind beyond the few White Mage NPCs we encounter. One of the reasons why the Elementals hid White Magic in the first place is that the Amdapori abused the shit out of it, and in the process, very nearly destroyed the world. For all we know, traditional White Mages during the time of Amdapor were in it for power or the accolades of others, not out of kindness. How does White Magic add a "layer of depth" to your character? Just saying, "Well, she knows it's wrong but she does it anyway" is reasoning, but it's not depth. How does White Magic make it more likely that she would understand what she's doing is wrong any more than, say, attempting a particularly difficult form of Conjury that could, say, damage the land? Another thing to point out is that White Magic isn't actually illegal. See, for it to be illegal, people would have to actually know about it. Can't make a law about something that supposedly doesn't exist. Can't be illegal if there's no law outlawing it. So it's not illegal. Forbidden? Again, can't forbid something that supposedly doesn't exist anymore. So, your reason is, "I want to be a White Mage because I've always wanted to be a White Mage and I hate that it's uber restrictive." That's totally valid. I have been there, and I completely agree - it's ripe bullshit how they've portrayed it in the game. That's really all the reasoning you need - don't stretch for other things, because those other things are stretches. "I want to do it" is literally the only justification you need. The hard part is making how you choose to accomplish this believable. As far as I know (someone correct me if I'm wrong here), Amdapor and Nym were never directly at war, nor did they fight together in La Noscea itself. With all of this said, OP - it's really up to you. Find a story that makes sense to you. I have a really hard time believing that the Xenophobic Gridanians would open up enough to even tell a foreign-born Sun Seeker about White Magic, but who knows? If you can come up with a story that works for you, go for it. All that matters is whether you will fit in with your particular group. Edited to Add: In talking with a friend, an old theory popped up - there's a good chance there's some pocket of White Mages hidden in some crazy remote part of Gyr Abania who descended from 6th Umbral Era survivors. It's likely that their techniques would, however, be wholly unconnected with the current Padjal-taught form of White Magic. Still, they might be a hell of a lot more open to teaching a foreign-born Sun Seeker Miqo'te than the admittedly xenophobic Gridanians.

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I'm not sure access to soap would actually be difficult. Lye soap, for instance, is ridiculously easy to make - it's lye (which is obtained by leaching ashes containing potash...hmm, where have I heard of that one before?), animal or plant fat (tallow, lard, or something similar to palm oil), and water. That's it. It's not hard to make, and was commonly produced in house in frontier areas. Before there was lye soap, it's known that the Greeks and Romans used Olive Oil as a type of cleanser. You'd massage it on, and squeegie it (I'm not even joking) off with a scraper. The oil would carry impurities with it. They also made great use of Rosemary, which has antibiotic properties. So even without widespread availability of soap, most likely cooking oils are available and could be used in such a fashion.