I think a big problem of presuming that glamours are costly or difficult to acquire is that everyone who is RPing "glamoured Au Ra" now needs to explain how and why they made such an expensive investment. Are the Au Ra a particularly affluent people? Aren't many of them nomads and tribalists? I wouldn't think they'd be particularly wealthy...
Which is part of the reason that I would think they have some kind of "glamour power" that is native to their race. Which would then raise the question of why Yugiri didn't have access to it. Â
So it seems like the more rare or expensive your headcanon makes Glamour, the more implausible the majority of race-change explanations are going to be. And the more you need to justify the huge expense your character would have apparently incurred in coming to the three city-states. Why spend that huge sum of money on glamour just so you could blend into some free company in Thanalan? How long did you have to save up for this? Where did you get the money for it? How rich is the tribe you came from? Does every Au Ra get a glamour the way some kids get cars on their 16th birthday? Â
When you look at the leves that use glamour, it's usually imps using glamour to hide their identities. These imps are probably not from the imp aristocracy and probably didn't save up millions of gil to buy their glamours so they could live out their dream of being water sprites. So again this lends me to the belief that glamour isn't entirely glamour prisms, it's a magical skill that some infernal creatures possess. So I would say, Au Ra, sure, some of them have glamour powers, I guess.
Which is part of the reason that I would think they have some kind of "glamour power" that is native to their race. Which would then raise the question of why Yugiri didn't have access to it. Â
So it seems like the more rare or expensive your headcanon makes Glamour, the more implausible the majority of race-change explanations are going to be. And the more you need to justify the huge expense your character would have apparently incurred in coming to the three city-states. Why spend that huge sum of money on glamour just so you could blend into some free company in Thanalan? How long did you have to save up for this? Where did you get the money for it? How rich is the tribe you came from? Does every Au Ra get a glamour the way some kids get cars on their 16th birthday? Â
When you look at the leves that use glamour, it's usually imps using glamour to hide their identities. These imps are probably not from the imp aristocracy and probably didn't save up millions of gil to buy their glamours so they could live out their dream of being water sprites. So again this lends me to the belief that glamour isn't entirely glamour prisms, it's a magical skill that some infernal creatures possess. So I would say, Au Ra, sure, some of them have glamour powers, I guess.
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