(09-25-2013, 07:06 PM)LiadansWhisper Wrote: But they're all sworn, and their liegelords, as part and parcel of their oath, should be taking care of them.
Should and do are completely different things. There are a lot of things our current "rulers" should be doing for those they "rule" but aren't as well. This is the same society that is obsessed with rooting out and eliminating heretics and tosses innocent people to their deaths to... prove their innocence. I highly doubt those living potentially comfier lives do a whole awful lot to help out those lesser nobles and might even see them as a threat, depending on how Ishgardian social structures work. Which, we don't know how they work so it's impossible to say any which way.
There are refineries for those natural resources Eorzeans harvest - it comes part and parcel with the mines and the oil fields and whatever else. Ceruleum is one resource in particular that gets a lot of attention in lore.
And look, it's not like I'm saying Eorzeans live nice and shiny lives. In fact, I think I've been saying quite the opposite. However, I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say late 20s/early 30s qualifies as old when we've seen quite a few clearly aged individuals in-game (particularly individuals who tend not to be involved in the obviously deadly activities of adventuring or the military, such as caretakers or cooks or other such things).
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