Do people IC even /know/ how many DRG there are left? Tbh all this talk can be bypassed with IC ignorance unlike the more obvious stuff like being a WHM.
Unless your character is a fellow DRG or someone who actually took time out their day to explicitly find out how many DRG were left for... reasons? Or anything specific of that sort (You can be from Ishgard and not know how many DRG there are, if it's anything reminiscent of an actual military some things are kept secret from the public regardless of political stature). Like just think, if for SOME REASON no matter how stupid, a Dragon goes "Hey bro, I ate a adventurer that was talking about how Ishgard? Yeah they don't have many DRG anymore. Let's go burn everything to the ground 8D" I'd be questioning how the hell a random adventurer (which our PCs are really in the RP world, least the majority) knew the exact number of an elites division of a military.
If some random approaches you and goes "Yeah I'm a DRG", it's perfectly plausible for a character in return to go "Oh? Cool, I heard the numbers were shrunk and some retirement stuff but nice to see some are still kicking."
Anyone that approaches you because you're still a DRG for whatever lore bent reason you can come up with (And said reason isn't you know... completely left field) probably has nothing better to do than harass you for your occupation simply because of a two digit number (which you never even brought up) stamped in a book.
Unless your character is a fellow DRG or someone who actually took time out their day to explicitly find out how many DRG were left for... reasons? Or anything specific of that sort (You can be from Ishgard and not know how many DRG there are, if it's anything reminiscent of an actual military some things are kept secret from the public regardless of political stature). Like just think, if for SOME REASON no matter how stupid, a Dragon goes "Hey bro, I ate a adventurer that was talking about how Ishgard? Yeah they don't have many DRG anymore. Let's go burn everything to the ground 8D" I'd be questioning how the hell a random adventurer (which our PCs are really in the RP world, least the majority) knew the exact number of an elites division of a military.
If some random approaches you and goes "Yeah I'm a DRG", it's perfectly plausible for a character in return to go "Oh? Cool, I heard the numbers were shrunk and some retirement stuff but nice to see some are still kicking."
Anyone that approaches you because you're still a DRG for whatever lore bent reason you can come up with (And said reason isn't you know... completely left field) probably has nothing better to do than harass you for your occupation simply because of a two digit number (which you never even brought up) stamped in a book.
Kevin Gates - Told Me