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(01-11-2016, 04:52 AM)Valeera Wrote:(01-11-2016, 04:16 AM)ArmachiA Wrote: Certain things in lore that just outright tell people "Nah, you can't do that."
An objective examination of the lore we have been given reveals, frankly, very, very few instances of "<thing> can not be done; not by anyone by any means ever." When it comes to shutting doors on (let's call them "creative") ideas, the biases of the community factor in significantly more than any established lore.
My favorite example: in some thread a while back (I don't remember which specific one) someone brought up the existence of vampires in Eorzea. This was followed by citations of various item descriptions that alluded to numerous common vampire myths (turning into bats, drinking blood etc.) that would be known to Eorzeans. Posters elected to completely ignore all the information (going as far as to say none of it was "real" lore) presented in order to maintain their position that vampires could not possibly exist in Eorzea.
I saw that thread and to be fair, it was never really settled if VAMPIRES existed in Eorzea or just the VAMPIRE MYTH. Two different things.
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