(09-01-2015, 02:24 AM)Calliope Cloverbloom Wrote:(09-01-2015, 02:20 AM)Flashhelix Wrote:(09-01-2015, 02:17 AM)Calliope Cloverbloom Wrote: That's why using the what you read, rather than what you see, is the better basis.
You're right, which is why instead of saying:
"There are no NPCs to support the idea of a miqo'te dragoon."
I will say:
"There is no lore to support the idea of a miqo'te dragoon."
Sure there is. Play one and go through the dragoon questline. Nobody acts as if what's going on is extraordinary at all. After you complete the questline, no NPC you come across behaves as if you're unusual.
That in itself is lore.Â
There's no evidence that suggests any race isn't represented among dragoons or plausible as being an upstanding citizen of Ishgard.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Ergo, you can't rationally conclude that they aren't allowed simply because the game doesn't tell you they ARE allowed. The game's dialogues lack any indication of it not being acceptable or ordinary.
In all due respect, while your argument is correct, using the job questline weakens your aurgment. the Dragoon questline deals with the exceptions of the exceptions. You are the 2nd Azure dragoon when there should ONLY BE ONE. Given the religious nature of Ishgard, if Halone chose a Miqo'te to be the Azure Dragoon, they sure as hell would shut up
NOT ONLY THAT. But Estienien has to clarify around 30 times in the MSQ (If you go as Dragoon) that you are Azure Dragoon, and that is clarifications to People like AYMERIC, so it is clear VERY FEW PEOPLE know who or what you are. To everyone else, you are just a lance wielding schmo.
Any plot that directly relates to what the main character in the MSQ or job quests can get away with has to be analyzed under immense scrutiny for a case of exceptionalism.
Which is what the Dragoon job quests are PLAGUED WITH.
It is the reason why Paladins are so comfortable with their job definitions and Dragoons get a 10 page discussion like this every few months.
It has gotten easier with Heavensward, but it is still VERY HARD to separate what is just a quality of BAHAMUT KILLER, WOL and every day schmuck of the same job title.
