Virella

Commander and leader material right here. Yeah. In Disney-ending land. She's Bella Swan, without her Edward. :^)

"How do you dare to be oppressed, jeeeeeez, just stand up against the bullies! Ermgeeeeerd gais." - Lyse You know, I would have been fine with that if it was just at start of MSQ, but she continues to do this lol. That is what fucking bothers me.

No, they don't get the third eye. This is confirmed by lore. Only the 'pure' Garleans get the third eye. That third eye is a sign of their racial purity. Non-purebloods just don't get it. Arenvald doesn't have one hidden underneath his hairdo, unlike they did with Lucia for a bit. But she's a pureblood, he's not! Honesty? I think Arenvald should probably have his own special model to represent his heritage. But to make it for one NPC who is probably not going to be that important? I doubt SE will do this. Not to mention, I'd imagine designing it is a bit harder than they had to do with Hilda (slap some pointy Padjal ears onto her model). It's interesting to note Arenvald is on minimum height slider for male highlander though. He's just as tall as my female, tall, highlander is. So I'm not even sure if Garleans need to be tall by default to begin with. Cid is a tiny one as well. Yes, most are super duper tall, but I think they may have a 'height slider' as well, and not everyone has the genes to be super tall.

I don't think he was given a choice? I think the fact he wasn't brainwashed as an Ala Mhigan child, and forced to live like a bandit should probably be a tell tale sign that everyone spat him out due to his heritage? That said, he only started to talk about it in SB, when approaching other Ala Mhigans (again). Before that, you heard of his heritage trough his friend, not him directly. If you have a low level alt who didn't do the MSQ really far yet, you can check the Waking Sands for it. It's the Miqo'te friend who tell something about it, not him. I think? So I don't think he goes around telling people either? Think he only mentioned it to the Resistance due to not wanting to offend them. The whole conversation struck me as 'please accept me despite my heritage' and not a 'BY THE WAY I'm a half Garlean' out of nowhere. Not to mention he avoided himself calling himself half-Garlean and opted for Half-breed instead. I suppose Half-Garlean is more taboo than using the word Half-breed to describe oneself in Eorzea.

Actually, Arenvald tells the Resistance people, and I'm vague quoting 'I'm a half Garlean, as you can see." So I don't know if hiding Garlean heritage is an option. Next to that, I think due to Garlean purebloods being so rare, I don't think a lot of Eorzeans know how they look like? That might be the reason Cid gets away with it? I'm not sure. Either way, Arenvald heavily implied that people can see what he is. At least the Resistance/Ala Mhigan people can. And they probably have seen a few more purebloods than most Eorzeans have? Hells if I know!

He's in the Waking Sands ever since ARR! The Miqo'te Tia friend of his has more to say about him in a ARR than Arenvald does himself. There's some speculation, that just as Greystone for Ishardian, Lentinus may be the bastard name for Garlean offsprings - maybe even for half-Garleans in specific. Given Arenvald got cast out by his mother, and nothing implies his father cared for him, it might be the case. Seeming the lorebook does refer to him like that. No idea if he uses the name himself. Think he just refers to him as Arenvald. But take that with a grain of salt at this point. It's hardly confirmed and people are just speculating. Anyhow, as far as we know, these children appear to be shunned by both sides. I can't imagine the Empire, being as proud of their racial superiority, likes seeing their 'pure' bloodlines diluted. Next to that Arvenvald was made to live like a bandit back in Gyr Abania. So it seemed no one really wanted to associate with him. Because as far as we know, Ala Mhigan children get brainwashed for the Empire, but he seemed to have 'escaped' that. Probably due to his heritage.

Maybe Anonymoose's post on the OF can help you out a bit more? http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/332316-Skulls-and-Ala-Mighen-Citizens?p=4239880&viewfull=1#post4239880

I think it's time to stop the snide comments towards Balmung But yes, Mateus is your safest bet as NA currently!

Eeeek. Not really. The Garleans aren't exactly doing that. They improved some of the living conditions, for some nations, if not groups of people, but far from all of them.

Queues were actually really good last night. I was actually switching between alts. moved to new server Aww.... well hf then Thanks to all who showed interest, sadly bulmung has grown a bit hostile for new or returning rpers lol. I'm sorry you had that experience! I never seen it happen myself. Shame you felt the need to leave Balmung. Hope you're happier elsewhere.

Yeah, Garleans have a huge thing for racial purity going on. They are very limited in numbers as well. But they see themselves above everything else due to what they are. Always struck me as funny how they cannot cast magic like most of the other races but somehow view themselves as better than everyone else. They overcame that 'issue' with technology, so that's why. They used to be kicked around for it, until they got as advanced as they were. They got a reason to be proud not to be bullied. But alas, they took it a tiny itsy bitsy too far.

Yeah, Garleans have a huge thing for racial purity going on. They are very limited in numbers as well. But they see themselves above everything else due to what they are.

Before the fall though? Ala Mhigo got conquered ~20 years ago! So that means, if you want her to be 16-18, she has to be Ala Mhigan but born ourside Gyr Abania. Or simply make her a bit older, if you want her to have at least some childhood memories of the place. Another option if to have a character who lived under occupied Ala Mhigo? That might be very interesting as well!

Sounds like a base to work of! However, if you go down the Ala Mhigan route, I feel you're either leaving a lot of potential out, or simply didn't include it here? Where did she grow up, what were her parents, what were her parents/caretakers stance on the situation they were forced into? Did she end up living in poverty? Did she get out of it somehow? Did she become bitter towards non-Ala Mhigans or did she get over it all? There's quite a bit of things you can play around with this still!

EU datacenter was not taken down. I've asked my EU FC on Cerberus, nothing happened as far as I know.

You expect people to know to do this shit in numbers? I assure you, that's not the majority. PS4 players are a thing as well.

So dramatic, 1.3k queue took me 13 mins to get in.

Yeah man, my 1.2k queue took like idk 5 mins to drop to 800 so far SO DRAMATIC MUCH WOW on peak times that would be an hour rofl

Lol stop acting so dramatic. You're EU as well, our queues times haven't been that horrible compared to US people.

... That was a concern? I was under the impression that the time of the disconnect would be unique to the datacenter and the part of the globe it's covering. You don't want to know how mad my EU friends were "Ermgerd reset during our primetime cuz they only care about US/JP"

Just check with EU friends. They are not being DCed. Reset is not all at the same time across all datacenters, as some doomsayers have been screaming.

Not really, my friends from Cerberus have been 2k queues as well and taking 2 hours to log in. Also Gilgamesh. Y'know, the other server that's considered congested, no one likes to talk about that one. :roll: No because the lelddit army is on Gilgamesh, and they just want to #blame Balmung RPers are scum after all

Not really, my friends from Cerberus have been 2k queues as well and taking 2 hours to log in.

"It's just Balmung" Uhm. No.

Mateus for US. Omega for EU. Although I know a lot of EU players who gone to Mateus as well. Best of luck o/