I'd definitely think arcanists would pretty much have to be literate, given the nature of their guild and the style of their magic. Everyone else, well... from the volume of books in the Thaumaturges' guild, I suspect most of them are literate, but I don't think there's anything in their magic style that requires literacy. I can't think of any reason any of the other classes would require literacy either.
It's an interesting point, though, about adventurers being from other lands. A common interpretation is "not the three city-states," but if we're talking places that aren't Eorzea, that throws a lot of character concepts for a loop. That said, I wouldn't necessarily given Gaius too much credit for calling it accurately. I mean, to a Garlean, every realm not part of the Empire is a blighted backwater, I'm sure.
On the plus side, I don't think the whole literacy thing alters RP that much. It just means that characters who are literate need a narrative justification for why, as opposed to just assuming literacy is the norm. When the original dev post dropped, I had to alter L'yhta so that her mother didn't teach her letters, but rather her mentor, because I too incorrectly assumed that literacy was the norm (as it appears to be in several other FF games).
It's an interesting point, though, about adventurers being from other lands. A common interpretation is "not the three city-states," but if we're talking places that aren't Eorzea, that throws a lot of character concepts for a loop. That said, I wouldn't necessarily given Gaius too much credit for calling it accurately. I mean, to a Garlean, every realm not part of the Empire is a blighted backwater, I'm sure.
On the plus side, I don't think the whole literacy thing alters RP that much. It just means that characters who are literate need a narrative justification for why, as opposed to just assuming literacy is the norm. When the original dev post dropped, I had to alter L'yhta so that her mother didn't teach her letters, but rather her mentor, because I too incorrectly assumed that literacy was the norm (as it appears to be in several other FF games).
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