(09-09-2013, 09:11 AM)Devin Farraday Wrote: Though that raises a whole 'nother can of worms, when one wonders whether Scholars are exclusively from Nym? It seems like any place that has access to Arcanima and Conjury would be able to pull it off, but the background lore goes into rather exhaustive detail about Nym. Which, from what I can understand, is still around and not an Imperial territory...Â
One of the complications you may have unintentionally raised here is that the lore of the actual job quest line doesn't always line up with the lore on the site. As others mentioned, there's a lot of "a long time ago" or "in ages past" in the main site lore; that tells me that while, yes, the Scholar came into being in Nym, how a current PC becomes one isn't necessarily "go to Nym and learn from the masters there." It's much how you needn't go to Japan to learn how to make sushi, or travel to Southern California to learn how to write software.
All that said, the important thing is that you have a narrative conceit that's compatible with lore for how your character knows what he knows. Learning the ways of a Scholar from a current Garlean, for example, wouldn't be lore-compatible due the Garleans' well-known ineptitude with magic (at the very least). Learning it from a traveling mystic, however, would be, as would be a "genericized" version of the actual SCH quest.
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