(08-26-2015, 01:13 PM)Sin Wrote:(08-26-2015, 12:52 PM)Selarian Cloverbloom Wrote: Please forgive my newbie question, as I have not done the story quests for these yet, but I was wondering...
Why is it that no one can be a BLM or WHM now? I read somewhere else that it is frowned upon by the lore people, and I am curious. Also, even if one could become a BLM or WHM in character, is it mutually exclusive? Selarian has the dream of mastering both Thaumatergy and Conjuration, and the natural step would be for him to become both a BLM and WHM, but I don't want to break lore.
Hey!
Newbie question forgiven as that's the purpose of this thread I think.
Alright, so there's a misconception in the question that I need to address.
First things first... People can be BLMs and Whms. It can happen. It has happened. In the past there was entire nations of these people walking around.
It's not lore breaking to be a BLM or a WHM.
So why do lore people frown on it?
They frown on it because they are extremely rare. In the case of BLM the art has been largely forgotten, and is in most cases outright illegal, and any spread of its knowledge is -actively- policed. In the case of WHM, it's knowledge is guarded by a race of very very stingy people. They don't want to teach you.
Can that be worked around? Yes. In a myriad of ways, a ton. Seriously, only your imagination limits you in how you can explain your character's acquisition of a knowledge long forbidden and forgotten.
Why do people still frown at it then?
Well, because explaining away how your character got around those limitations is never done for the majority of characters in a satisfactory way. And those characters are never role played in a way that really showcases these jobs as portrayed in the lore. And finally, the desire to adds these characteristics to the character is usually an indicator of poor character building skills, shoving cool-looking things into a character needlessly to make the character more special-- mary sueish and overpowered.
This is also a good, quick explanation. Â As Sin daid, if you can come up with a good explanation as to how and why you've managed to get access to the forbidden art, no one will really look at you funny. Just gotta sell it.
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