(05-26-2017, 12:25 PM)Valic Wrote: Will red mages have "been a thing" that anyone could have been in the past 10 years, how about Samurai? Will doma/othard/etc always have been available for us to have gone to in the past or would it have been considered too dangerous to visit due to some instances of the past?
A lot of this is "Please look forward to it" material, but the one passage we do have about Red Mage is that the art was created at the beginning of the Sixth Astral Era 1500 years ago. So, it's "been a thing" but we won't know until the actual questline if the art was lost some 1000 years ago during the mass four hundred year purge of magi in Eorzea or if they were killed off by the warring Gyr Abanian tribes, or if they've persisted in some highly remote village in the depths of Abalathia's Spine and now for whatever reason have been discovered.
As for Samurai, we know they've been a thing in Doma and Hingashi for some time. There's a note about the samurai fighting against the original Garlean invasion.
Homei Wrote:Sacrificing oneself for one's duty... Such actions remind me of the warriors of Doma - of the samurai and shinobi who died for our cause.
Theoretically, you could've always gone to Doma/Hingashi, at least in the last 50 years, when trade with the Far East and Eorzea really started picking up. Even when under Imperial occupation Eorzeans still traded with those nations until the Eorzean Alliance officially declared war against the Empire in 1572. There's still some trade-by-proxy, but not as much as there once was.
