Lore bending really does have to happen with how Squeenix did things for some of the classes/jobs. If it's done well, and without being overpowered, and without forcing anything on anyone, it really shouldn't matter all that much. Keep it classy, really. Keep it fun for everyone.
Claire isn't a Paladin or a Gladiator IC, I don't RP as either, technically - I use the job/class because it lets me carry the weapon I want to use IC. I also specifically don't get into what she can and can't do with said weapon very often. The classes/jobs I'd like her to be aren't even in game yet, so I sort of skirt around the whole situation as much as I possibly can.
As for the White Mage issue that's been brewing here, I still think some of the lore bending can be entwined between what was mentioned from the website and what the elemental in the end of the 1.0 cut scene said.
Between these two statements:
"Although the art subsequently became forbidden, it is now in the midst of a revival at the hands of the Padjal, chosen of the elementals."
"Till such a time as the light of succor shineth in every corner of the realm," ~ Oha-Sok
...multiple, well crafted backgrounds as to why a character is a White Mage but not a Padjal can be constructed even if the Job Quest does the silly "Chosen One" focus. That "Chosen One", for example", was just the start of the revival! The were the first non-Padjal to become a White Mage, and the results were amazing, and that's the spark that began this revival the website talks about. That's really not a Mary Sue level leap of logic there; someone came before your character, paved the way for your character to become a White Mage, though they're still uncommon.
Merri made a hugely important observation in all this, that matters to both the White Mage conundrum, and the Dragoon conundrum, the Summoner conundrum and the Echo conundrum: the player characters in the game are the minority, and RPers even more so, however the game just cannot handle showing us every single mundane background individual that exists in the world - especially since they have it running on PS3s! There are hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions of Eorzeans who aren't adventurers, who are level 1 classless NPCs. So while it may seem like there's a shit ton of White Mages about as we're RPing at events...there really aren't in the grand scheme of things, so it's not like there's so many that the Pact of Gelmorra's being broken so hard the Greenwrath is immanent, etc; it's quite possible that overall, there's just not enough White Mages doing bad things for the Elementals to flip their sh** yet. There may never be.
Claire isn't a Paladin or a Gladiator IC, I don't RP as either, technically - I use the job/class because it lets me carry the weapon I want to use IC. I also specifically don't get into what she can and can't do with said weapon very often. The classes/jobs I'd like her to be aren't even in game yet, so I sort of skirt around the whole situation as much as I possibly can.
As for the White Mage issue that's been brewing here, I still think some of the lore bending can be entwined between what was mentioned from the website and what the elemental in the end of the 1.0 cut scene said.
Between these two statements:
"Although the art subsequently became forbidden, it is now in the midst of a revival at the hands of the Padjal, chosen of the elementals."
"Till such a time as the light of succor shineth in every corner of the realm," ~ Oha-Sok
...multiple, well crafted backgrounds as to why a character is a White Mage but not a Padjal can be constructed even if the Job Quest does the silly "Chosen One" focus. That "Chosen One", for example", was just the start of the revival! The were the first non-Padjal to become a White Mage, and the results were amazing, and that's the spark that began this revival the website talks about. That's really not a Mary Sue level leap of logic there; someone came before your character, paved the way for your character to become a White Mage, though they're still uncommon.
Merri made a hugely important observation in all this, that matters to both the White Mage conundrum, and the Dragoon conundrum, the Summoner conundrum and the Echo conundrum: the player characters in the game are the minority, and RPers even more so, however the game just cannot handle showing us every single mundane background individual that exists in the world - especially since they have it running on PS3s! There are hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions of Eorzeans who aren't adventurers, who are level 1 classless NPCs. So while it may seem like there's a shit ton of White Mages about as we're RPing at events...there really aren't in the grand scheme of things, so it's not like there's so many that the Pact of Gelmorra's being broken so hard the Greenwrath is immanent, etc; it's quite possible that overall, there's just not enough White Mages doing bad things for the Elementals to flip their sh** yet. There may never be.
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