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ExAtomos · **07-20-2016, 08:43 AM**

(07-20-2016, 07:34 AM)Charity322 Wrote: I'd think that the major problem would be dealing with the amount of quests/leves/dungeons/FATEs that require you to kill animals. Would it make a difference if they're hostile and/or potentially evil?

Easy, don't do those IC.

Charity322 · **07-20-2016, 09:20 AM**

(07-20-2016, 08:43 AM)ExAtomos Wrote: Easy, don't do those IC.

Yeah, but what if you wanted to do them IC? Do people really never RP adventuring at all?

Gerel Kha · **07-20-2016, 09:37 AM**

(07-20-2016, 09:20 AM)Charity322 Wrote:
(07-20-2016, 08:43 AM)ExAtomos Wrote: Easy, don't do those IC.

Yeah, but what if you wanted to do them IC? Do people really never RP adventuring at all?

Some do, some don't. A lot of people like to separate their gameplay from their RP, to an extent, since they may not be an adventurer who's going around killing everything for the experience, rewards, and thrills.

ExAtomos · **07-20-2016, 09:51 AM**

(07-20-2016, 09:20 AM)Charity322 Wrote:
(07-20-2016, 08:43 AM)ExAtomos Wrote: Easy, don't do those IC.

Yeah, but what if you wanted to do them IC? Do people really never RP adventuring at all?

From what I have read here and encountered in game, the vast majority do not RP as the Warrior of Light, which is what you are due to the events of the msq. I have done quite a few RP dungeons, but the reasons we go in have nothing to do with the quest the game offers.

In the case of the Sagahl, if you held to the tenets of the tribe and harmed no animals, you would be stopped by the level 1 quest that has you go out and kill 3 types of animals. You literally cannot go through msq as a Sagahl unless as one who has deviated and now kills animals.

On a side note... think of the Qestir who believe all words are lies and choose not to speak. Yet many cutscenes show your character retelling events that just occurred to a npc that wasn't present for the fight (or whatever). Interesting philosophical conundrum there.

Charity322 · **07-20-2016, 11:34 AM**

Yeah, I didn't mean as the WoL. But even your first class quest makes you go out and kill things and gives you a hunting log of things to kill and that has nothing to do with the WoL.

It's hard to get by in Eorzea without killing anything. So that's why I wondered if there was an exception for things that want to eat you/things that want to do bad things to the world.

Kilieit · **07-20-2016, 11:45 AM**

Plenty of people get by in Eorzea without killing anything. Adventurers are an outlying minority, and most of the things we see as player-characters do not represent every day life as an average Eorzean citizen because, as ExAtomos said, the game is shown to us through the eyes of the Warrior of Light.

Arguably, it'd be easier to get by as a Sagahl in Eorzea than on the Steppes - there's a merchant infrastructure where you can work for someone, earn money, then buy clothes, grain, bread, fruit, canvas tents, and so on and so forth, rather than having to collect and make everything yourself.

Assuming, that is, that the character was ignorant (willfully or otherwise) of the methods those items were obtained by. xD

(Side note - I assume "animals" definitely means "beastkin" and probably means "cloudkin", but I wonder if wavekin (fish, etc) count...)

Kaiserin · **07-20-2016, 12:25 PM**

I am personally not one of those types that take every in-game thing into my roleplay, and generally (at least in other games), I stray away from that entirely. I often separate in-game mechanics and ideas from rp entirely, unless it makes sense to do so otherwise. (Just as an example, I don't do the level = RP strength thing.) I know that leves and such are a thing that has lore behind it, so I'm okay with that, but.. Some of the things in this game that have lore behind them I absolutely would never RP, and would find it just strange to do so otherwise.

To each their own! Just my style of doing things, I guess. Chocobo

Either way! I went ahead and made her a Kahkol tribe member, with her original tribe having a reverence for animals found on the steppe (amongst some other little ideas, based on some research I did.) Should be fun. Smile

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