(04-16-2015, 10:12 AM)Milly Wrote: I just had a thought. Is it ever explicitly stated that that Ishgardians are natively Elezen and Hyurs and don't like, or natively include, Miqo'te and/or Lalafell...? Because I don't personally remember race ever being brought up in regards to any of the nations, not even for Gridania.
Instead what's stated is they don't like 'outsiders' and it seems as a player base we've made an assumption that that means 'race' when actually... it just means people who aren't from Ishgard/Gridania. It doesn't matter if you're Elezen, Roe, Hyur if you're not from Ishgard they don't like you. Are we just concluding that there's no Miqo'te Ishgardians because we've not had it confirmed yet?
Please correct me if I'm wrong, I don't have the best memory, I just get a feeling there's some assumption about race discrimination (as I mentioned earlier in the thread this is more common in other games such as XI) when, as far as I recall, race is rarely if ever brought up as being an issue. It's one of the things I like about this game.
Also,
I've never unlocked Dragoon so I might sound quite stupid but why is a Miqo'te Dragoon consistently being cited as implausible? The game lets you do it, so how is it explained when you unlock it? You don't need to go to Ishgard to be a Dragoon I'd have thought..?
All we really know is that Ishgard is primarily Wildwood Elezen and Midlander. And very xenophobic. We haven't actually gotten a "no native Lalafell/Miqo'te/Roegayden" of any sort, which is why there is a lot of ridiculous banter going on in the thread. It cna be summed up as we really have no idea until the city is actually available.
But we can't really take anything our main-character does as "normal" because they /are/ the super-special amazing exception to all the rules. (Like how they became the first non-Padjal White Mage since the fall of Amdapor). As such, main-adventurer-cat-person could literally do and become anything. Hell, they can master lifetimes worth of skill in a few weeks, if the player doesn't sleep.
