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(07-11-2015, 03:59 AM)Glioca Sargonnai Wrote:(07-11-2015, 03:50 AM)Warren Castille Wrote:(07-11-2015, 02:16 AM)Zedrick Pendragon Wrote: Anyone else have any thoughts on this subject?
If you can rationalize being a stranger in a strange land with no history, no backstory, and no attachment to the XIV story then nothing is stopping you.
THESE ARE THINGS YOU SHOULDN'T IGNORE THOUGH. Galka are NOT Roegadyan, and Vana'diel is NOT Eorzea.
There's nothing to stop you from being a legacy-character, but I would ask what purpose being one would serve? Vana'diel and its history would just isolate you more from general RP.
The thing is that he doesn't want to ignore those things. He wants his character to experience learning about these things from an IC perspective. It actually offers up a lot of play for those who are willing to see his character as strange, odd, or otherwise queer because of his opinions, views, and beliefs on the world, or on the flip side of that, because he should know things, and instead knows so little. That puts out a lot of starting points for RP and actually gives a lot of plot hooks that people could get into. Hell, just generalized RP, walk-ups with a lot of 'Hi, how are ya' could be interesting if his character isn't familiar with local customs.Â
Speaking of Vana'diel and other lands, if these lands have no influence on Eorzea at all, why are bits and pieces of Vana'diel mentioned here and there in FFXIV items? I don't recall where, but I think at one point is was almost theorized that Eorzea was an alternate version of some kind of weird transitioned AU of Vana'diel as a way of connecting them. Final Fantasy is notorious for alternate versions of a world, world skipping, connecting games, and other similar links between titles in the franchise.Â
It hits a point where the argument begins to boil down to "Yes, you can do this, and you can even make this seem plausible and interesting, but it means I'll have to make more effort to figure out how my character would react to someone being so different, so don't do it so I don't have to try and interact with you."
Allow me to begin by saying you're completely correct: There's nothing wrong (and in some respects, you're benefitted) with being an off-worlder.
You are, of course, completely ignorant of the world you're roleplaying in. That's not necessarily bad! Some folks are patient enough to put up with someone showing up and not knowing any better. Some folks, of course, are also liable to not give a single fuck as to your world-hopping backstory. None of the XI lore carries over in an overt way - The races aren't the same, the world isn't the same, and everything you know is wrong.
As mentioned earlier, you FFXI character is as-believable as someone RPing Captain America or Jon Snow in FFXIV. They know nothing, ain't from around here and don't know better.
No one will stop you from playing such a character, but you might find some folks unwilling to RP with you. These aren't the same thing, after all.
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