(06-07-2015, 06:40 PM)FreelanceWizard Wrote: I would just say, though, that commonality of story does not equal commonality of existence, so to say that "because many people RP this, it must be super-common, and the implication of that is that it breaks the world" is a little disingenuous, I think. A thing can appear in RP and be portrayed as rare. Even if lots of people do it, it's still rare in their continuities and it's still rare in the aggregate of Eorzean experience, since PC adventurers are a tiny percentage of the world's population. That certainly doesn't mean that an FC isn't well within its rights to say, "As we view lore, this cannot exist, so if you want to join, you can't have that in your story."
This.
I go further and think that tendencies of the role play community at large do not change the lore. This means that despite the popularity of some races over others this doesn’t change the lore about those races; Miqo’te males are rare despite their popularity in the community. Literacy is the exception, not the norm, despite most characters being able to read. White Mages are not common, no matter how many people role-play them, etc.
I'm sure there are some who disagree and prefer a community generated "continuity", but that style certainly isn't for me.
