Copy-pasting wholesale from my post in the General Lore Questions thread, where this topic came up recently.
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100% headcanon 0% canon proceed with due cautionFantasia is extremely rare and only spoken about in whispers. Most laymen agree it's an urban legend, and serial criminals have probably died in the Philosopher's Stone-like pursuit of this mystical potion which will allow them to become someone new, either from drinking a fake that turned out to be poison or from being killed directly by a competitor.
...rich businessfolk in Ul'dah are in possession of the substance, usually for recreational or vanity purposes; they don't call it by its common name, "fantasia", but by something else fakey and scientific-sounding that doesn't give away its purpose. It often ends up in the hands (or drinking glasses) of unsuspecting adventurers after it's been stolen or mistakenly taken by servants and wait-staff who service both said rich businessfolks and more common bars; sometimes on purpose (and then maliciously or mistakenly fed to said adventurer), sometimes on the mistake that it's actually expensive liquor (and then mistakenly fed to said adventurer).
Far more commonly available and known-about and, like, known to actually exist and not be a wild goose chase (do geese exist in Eorzea??), methods of changing one's appearances are glamours of various sorts, both the kinds weaved through prisms and the kinds cast by creatures like imps and sylphs. That would be most characters' first port of call if mundane disguises weren't doing the trick or weren't applicable to the problem.
...rich businessfolk in Ul'dah are in possession of the substance, usually for recreational or vanity purposes; they don't call it by its common name, "fantasia", but by something else fakey and scientific-sounding that doesn't give away its purpose. It often ends up in the hands (or drinking glasses) of unsuspecting adventurers after it's been stolen or mistakenly taken by servants and wait-staff who service both said rich businessfolks and more common bars; sometimes on purpose (and then maliciously or mistakenly fed to said adventurer), sometimes on the mistake that it's actually expensive liquor (and then mistakenly fed to said adventurer).
Far more commonly available and known-about and, like, known to actually exist and not be a wild goose chase (do geese exist in Eorzea??), methods of changing one's appearances are glamours of various sorts, both the kinds weaved through prisms and the kinds cast by creatures like imps and sylphs. That would be most characters' first port of call if mundane disguises weren't doing the trick or weren't applicable to the problem.
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