(05-07-2015, 04:04 PM)Yssen Wrote: The fun part is that we are finding out more and more that things are not that rigid.
There are many Dragoons (Heavensward Trailer), there have been and are other WHMs besides the Padjal and the WoL (Y'shtola and Amdapoor Secrets), and so on.
It also works both in the opposite direction, we recently found out that Au Ra are not specifically draconic in lineage. Wildwoods found out in the Gelmorra Lore Bomb from a while back that they might have very much been in the wrong as far as their conflict with the Duskies goes. That same lore bomb, and other snippets have turned a Gridanian RPers idea that the Elementals are a force for good a bit on ear by talking about what they do, and revealing that they were not always in the Black Shroud. There are countless other examples going all the way back to 1.0 (hully crap, miqo culture. among other examples).
Lore is a living breathing thing. As the story of the game rolls on we will find out more and more stuff. More and more stuff will be hinted at. (We've been hearing that Garleans have third eyes since 1.0). We should all be prepared to be thrown sideways by Lore from time to time. What we should not do is deal in absolutes, and commit to a strict stance because of those assumed absolutes. One just ends up being wrong in their strict stance half the time when that happens, and I have yet to see too many people say "Whoops I was wrong" at all when it happens. On either side of whatever issue. To pull an example from outside the FFXIV, no one saw a ton of support for R+L=J when they first read GoT. Several books, a show, and some re-reading with analysis a later and it is a widely supported theory. We must emphasize theory. We don't know for sure until it is in print. We exist in the same place with regard to the game's lore.
In conclusion we must be flexible. None of us knows all of anything. We didn't write any of this world, we just play in it and read it as the secrets come out. We all have theories, but none of us is more right than anyone else until we see it in print. We should remember this as we take stances on things.
So to pose the writing prompt to you:
Let's say Square-Enix retcons out the old 1.0 lore regarding vengeance orders. Or maybe they expand on the lore and a mention comes up that Duskwight Elezen are not and have never been accepted into the Immortal Flames due to rampant racism. How would you handle adjustments to your character, their history, your headcanon, etc.?
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