This touches on how one treats the main story in general, and to be clear, there is no one simple agreed-upon answer for this.
For the most part, you can feel free to ignore most of the main story bits as being inapplicable to your character. Obviously, we're not all members of the Scions and we're not all going to running Coil and killing primals, etc., etc. It becomes incredibly difficult to reconcile some of these things when the story itself is built for one exclusive protagonist and his or her party most of the time.
Similarly, gear, and item level in particular, is often treated in abstraction rather than as a part of the reality that we all inhabit. I don't personally like the idea of so much of my character's strength being determined by 'ilvl' because it really cheapens her own progression (as in, all of her strength comes from her items rather than how well she can use what she has) so I tend to ignore it. In fact, I don't really know of any RPers who treat their actual gear as being IC.
But okay, going back to Coil gear... can someone reasonably expect to be taken seriously if they claim they obtained the gear ICly? I don't really know. It'd take some really good justification considering how powerful, prestigious, and not to mention rare it all is. It might be easier to swallow if they're considered replicas (the way Rowena's gear in general is justified) rather than the actual original article. I know T'rahnu would be very interested in knowing where such a character sourced such items if she saw someone wearing it. Perhaps that can even be a major plot point for you to cover?
At any rate, that's all I've got. Hopefully this was helpful in some way. If not, sorry.
For the most part, you can feel free to ignore most of the main story bits as being inapplicable to your character. Obviously, we're not all members of the Scions and we're not all going to running Coil and killing primals, etc., etc. It becomes incredibly difficult to reconcile some of these things when the story itself is built for one exclusive protagonist and his or her party most of the time.
Similarly, gear, and item level in particular, is often treated in abstraction rather than as a part of the reality that we all inhabit. I don't personally like the idea of so much of my character's strength being determined by 'ilvl' because it really cheapens her own progression (as in, all of her strength comes from her items rather than how well she can use what she has) so I tend to ignore it. In fact, I don't really know of any RPers who treat their actual gear as being IC.
But okay, going back to Coil gear... can someone reasonably expect to be taken seriously if they claim they obtained the gear ICly? I don't really know. It'd take some really good justification considering how powerful, prestigious, and not to mention rare it all is. It might be easier to swallow if they're considered replicas (the way Rowena's gear in general is justified) rather than the actual original article. I know T'rahnu would be very interested in knowing where such a character sourced such items if she saw someone wearing it. Perhaps that can even be a major plot point for you to cover?
At any rate, that's all I've got. Hopefully this was helpful in some way. If not, sorry.
