Hello!
There is actually a Garlean-themed FC, Regnum Garlemald. I keep a character with them, myself. It's been a little bit quiet for a bit but we're trying to get things going, so if you don't mind being patient, you're more than welcome to join us. If you'd rather do your own thing for an FC, that's awesome too and I hope all goes well with that.
As far as level of tech and so forth, there's really not a whole not in hard terms about what is and is not plausible. For what you're trying to do, if it's a splinter faction, it may all boil down to what sort of ties they keep with Garlemald, or whether or not they made off with a cache of Magitek before they split off.
Given what we've seen in the lore, there are a lot of gray areas. I'd say it's not far fetched to assume some armor may have some advanced updates and mechanisms. Nero has 1-2 attacks called "augmented" (i.e. Augmented Uprising) which could just as well have something to do with the gear he's using.
Likewise it's not also too far out of left field to say some physical augmentations might be possible, as is the case with my alt, and others I've seen who do still/used to work for the Empire in some capacity.
There is actually a Garlean-themed FC, Regnum Garlemald. I keep a character with them, myself. It's been a little bit quiet for a bit but we're trying to get things going, so if you don't mind being patient, you're more than welcome to join us. If you'd rather do your own thing for an FC, that's awesome too and I hope all goes well with that.
As far as level of tech and so forth, there's really not a whole not in hard terms about what is and is not plausible. For what you're trying to do, if it's a splinter faction, it may all boil down to what sort of ties they keep with Garlemald, or whether or not they made off with a cache of Magitek before they split off.
Given what we've seen in the lore, there are a lot of gray areas. I'd say it's not far fetched to assume some armor may have some advanced updates and mechanisms. Nero has 1-2 attacks called "augmented" (i.e. Augmented Uprising) which could just as well have something to do with the gear he's using.
Likewise it's not also too far out of left field to say some physical augmentations might be possible, as is the case with my alt, and others I've seen who do still/used to work for the Empire in some capacity.
