(06-17-2015, 02:59 PM)Gegenji Wrote: Basically, is this sort of like a Fantasia 2.0 situation? Or is there enough evidence in-game that backs the player races being able to use glamours ICly with any sort of regularity?
Personally I find it way too implausible to be something that exists, even if it's super expensive.Â
However, I don't feel strongly enough about it that I'll refuse to accept player-made lore on the topic. It's far too widespread for me to just reject it outright, and it's the closest thing I've seen to a consensus on why people are changing their races. "I was hiding my identity via magic," setting aside the difficulty of glamour per se, is understandable in a world where the race could give rise to tension if it were publicly known.
The only satisfactory alternative I can see is expecting people to just create new characters or "kill" and rename their existing ones. But that's expecting far too much so I'm accepting Au Ra glamour as kind of a compromise.
However, strictly lore speaking? I think it's 100% OOC except for creatures that possess it as a magical talent, like imps or sylphs. I don't buy the idea of people being able to use it unless it was an extremely rare talent, certainly not as a commodity that can be purchased with enough wealth.
So I'll just see it as "Au Ra have glamour powers, but they stopped having those powers on Friday, June 19th 2015."Â Good enough.
If, going forward, this becomes the normal explanation for race changes, then that's going to become annoying.
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