(11-14-2017, 06:10 AM)Ymyrha Wrote: Hello! I just recently joined the website, and I've come up with some lore tidbits for Y'myrha that I thought I'd get some public opinion on before attempting to legitimately implement them.
Firstly, I don't know if there's any clarification on where the Jaguar (Y) tribe is in-game. Because of this, I've assumed that there's probably a few different fragments of the established tribes, that may live in separate areas. With this decision, I've taken the liberty of giving Y'myrha's fragment of the tribe some special customs and practices.
Y'myrha's sect of the tribe is very old fashioned and traditional, where they're vagrants who never settle down in the same location for long. They travel around the La Noscean areas.
Her tribe's most unique custom is the fact that all of their dead are cremated. The reason for this being, there are a select few individuals within her tribe that are chosen at birth to be dancers of a special kind. Although the dancers are primarily female, male ones are not unheard of, simply less common. A child is selected at birth to be this dancer based on one criteria: that their eyes are purple. Purple eyes are simply a hereditary trait that they've come to believe indicates that they've been chosen to be a dancer; it has no actual special powers with it.
To further expound on why all of their dead are cremated, it's because these dancers (called Y'lhat by their tribe) are given the ashes, chosen by the departed's immediate family. Once the ashes are given to the them, a ceremony is set up to take place a few days later, and the Y'lhat gives the departed a farewell dance, because it's believed that the dance gives them one last little joy before they're truly gone.
Otherwise, I was considering giving her some knowledge about white magic. I remember reading a lore tidbit somewhere, involving a conversation with Koji Fox, saying that it was possible for individuals to learn white magic outside of the Padjali ranks. However, it was exceptionally rare for such things to happen, and the practitioner would have to be very secretive about it much like black magic users should be secretive.
I won't lie, I've always wanted to make a character who could use white magicks. I was always afraid to implement this idea because of potential community backlash, especially since it used to be highly frowned upon.
However, that's not to say she would be running around casting Holy or anything like that. Her knowledge wouldn't be expansive—she'd have knowledge of some of the more basic abilities, primarily healing, because of a few different reasons involving her character and her story. I also wouldn't have her go around, carelessly telling anyone and everyone that she knows such things. I value discretion, and want it to be something that's found out about only later on through good character development with others. I thought I'd get community opinion on the idea anyway, just to err to the side of caution.
If you read all of this, thank you kindly! I look forward to the possible feedback from others!
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Quote:“I know White Mage lore is super restrictive about who is and isn’t allowed to use White Magic. That said, is there any way a non-Padjal who isn’t the Warrior of Light can become one?â€
Koji-Fox: “The answer to that is complicated - because from the perspective of the Padjal, the official answer to that is ‘No, absolutely not.’
That being said, discarded Soul Crystals are definitely something one would find if say, they explored the ruins of the Lost City of Amdapor or other Amdapori ruins. And with enough practice and research, someone could conceivably learn White Magic. The Padjal keep the knowledge but that doesn’t mean they hold every scrap of information on the art. The Sharlayans certainly would have some tucked away, and there’s certainly some scattered around in those previously mentioned Amdapori ruins.
So yeah, are there are non-Padjal, non-Warrior of Light White Mages lurking around Eorzea in the shadows? Absolutely. Some use their knowledge for evil, and some want to use the art of healing for good. However, they are not granted their power via the Padjal.â€
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