(06-14-2016, 11:02 AM)Strawberrycake Wrote: I'm looking to make an Elezen, and thinking he'll be a Garlean spy or refugee; something like that. Because Elezen seem to be the only other race present in Garlean enemies I've seen, next to the majority being Hyur. Unfortunately, I don't know much about the Empire other than what I've seen in the story so far (and I'm far from completing it, as of now). Any info regarding Garlemald would be helpful (if there's a big lore drop or something somewhere), but my main question is: should I make him Wildwood or Duskwight?
"Pureblooded" Garleans are their own Hyur-like race, separate from Eorzean races. However:
I have a strong recollection (also see the lore dump that I link at the bottom of this post) that the Garlean Empire operates by annexing its new territories and conscripting the able-bodied to go and fight overseas from the conquered territory, preventing them from contributing to uprisings in their homeland.
So in other words:
Anything you like.
Literally.
If you wanna play a Duskwight, do it; if you wanna play a Wildwood, do it.
I guess just bear in mind that Duskwight seems to be a divergence in the elezen appearance that emerged specifically as a result of living underground for generations, usually in Gelmorra in the Black Shroud. The natural appearance of surface-dwelling elezen families is the appearance that we know as "Wildwood".
Wildwood don't actually have to be from a wood; but duskwight do actually have to be from underground, at least ancestrally (it takes more than a generation or two to iron out the differences).
As for general fluff on the Garleans, have this loredump that Sounsyy wrote up a while ago (helpfully saved in my bookmarks as, simply, "garlics").
![[Image: tUzrT.png]](https://puu.sh/tUzrT.png)
