(11-05-2015, 01:42 PM)Riik Wrote:Being the WoL =/= Player character, unless you roleplay the Warrior of Light.(11-05-2015, 01:35 PM)Vyce Wrote: You're missing the key point in that THE DRAGOON JOB QUEST DOES NOT MAKE YOU AN ISHGARDIAN SOLDIER.
A Gridanian Dragoon is based on a type of Ishgardian Lancer that specializes in taking down dragons. Based on.
It does not get you acceptance into Ishgardian society, or qualify you as a Dragoon in their eyes because you were not trained IN Ishgard. You are a farce as far as they are concerned. Race matters entirely in Ishgard. Ishgard is not an open and accepting place. They have racism, elitism, sexism, and religious extremism.
One can serve a nation without being their soldier. Like in the main scenario quests, the player does plenty of work for the Coerthan knights, thereby 'serving' them. Riku served Ishgard by proxy, but still served Ishgard. I never said he was an Ishgardian soldier, I never said he was accepted into Ishgardian society.
Secondly, whilst I may have skimmed through a lot of the job quest dialogue, I saw no mention of the player being a Gridanian dragoon in the job quest. Granted, I reached 50 dragoon BEFORE 2.0 so things may have changed in the quest. Perhaps I missed something or perhaps that was something added in after ARR, whatever the case, Riku was still a dragoon, and he still served Ishgard, so my opening post does not change.
That said.
Dragoons are being trained from their childhood, they in specific seek out orphans who hate the Dravanian Horde with a passion/got nothing to lose any more to become Dragoons. The WoL is a special snowflake who, as with most jobs, skipped trough years and years of training within a heartbeat and does not represent the job's true nature of skill and dedication needed.
Surely non-Ishgardians can become Ishgardian, look at Lucia for example. But that takes years on end, and on top of that, I cannot see Dragoons being simply allowed to leave. Hells, I cannot see any Ishgardian being allowed to leave and slack off onto their Holy War, as levequests showed us off that people who cba to do shit will find their family in trouble for it. (However very few people keep this in mind.)
... Ishgard isn't as nice, polite, flowery, knightly, heroic as people make it out to be. It's a shithole filled with racism, classicism, xenophobes, sexism and all sorts of other terrible things as Vyce pointed out.
