[Request] Garlean Headpiece Item

Would it be possible to get an item that looks somewhat like the Garlean third eye? Perhaps just a forehead gem that is dyable, so it could look somewhat like the third eye if it were white, or like a ruby forehead gem if dyed red, or emerald if green, etc. That way it could be multifunctional.

Having an item that somewhat looks like the third eye would be nice for roleplayers of Garlean characters, and having it dyable as a head jewel would look nice for other uses as well.

Change to a female Sunseeker ^^
They can equip a red gem on the forehead

How would you roleplay as a Garlean when True Garlensn can't use Aether at all? No magic or any use of power wrought from crystals? I think that would only leave Machinest or Marauder as a viable class choice?

I've seen some Potatoes having similar, too. Lol here I thought that you were going to ask Garlond Goggles

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Originally Posted by Daranion

How would you roleplay as a Garlean when True Garlensn can't use Aether at all? No magic or any use of power wrought from crystals? I think that would only leave Machinest or Marauder as a viable class choice?

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I actually have a garlean character of mine who has none of the magic classes unlocked, or any of the potentially magic classes unlocked (like monk with chakras and whatnot). He is purely for RP not raiding or anything of that nature, and any aether teleports I do are for meta convenience, not other aspect of him uses aether or magic.

Us FemRoes have a forehead gem you can change the colour of. It has a little design around it though.


http://i.imgur.com/z3t4byM.jpg

There's a lovely little pair of Garlean goggles that drop from mobs in Northern Thanalan. It's a SURPRISE headpiece.

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Originally Posted by Daranion

How would you roleplay as a Garlean when True Garlensn can't use Aether at all? No magic or any use of power wrought from crystals? I think that would only leave Machinest or Marauder as a viable class choice?

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I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be able to teleport either. Or be a chosen of hydalyen.

Also the headpiece would not mean the character is a 'real' Garlean. It would be simply for player aesthetics/RP imagination, or be used as a forehead gem if it is able to be dyed (or just a white gem)

There are quite a few Garlean rpers on Balmung, and I would imagine other servers where RP occurs.

Although-- I am not sure of lorewise it is said that a Garlean cannot have the echo/be allied with Hydaelyn? Neither of these rely on aether use to my knowledge. I have not seen evidence for or against it myself, but that is a different topic.

If there are any true-born Garleans with the Echo, then I would imagine life would be extremely unpleasant for them - in 1.0 Echo-users were actively persecuted by the Empire (because of the Echo ability to understand the Beastmen, and thus the Empire regarded those who could communicate with the beast tribes as a beastmen themselves, and therefore a heretic to be hunted down and executed).

Even here in ARR, the Empire now would just incarcerate them and use them as a glorified lab rat to understand the secrets of the Echo (specifically, how it renders a person immune to Primal influence/tempering) - after all this is why

Livia took Minfilia prisoner during ARR's story.

No, I don't think if there is any Garleans who are awoken to the Echo - if there was, they most definitely would have been discovered long ago and imprisoned in research facilities - what happened to the Waking Sands more or less proves that.

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Originally Posted by Hieral

There's a lovely little pair of Garlean goggles that drop from mobs in Northern Thanalan. It's a SURPRISE headpiece.

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That's the Legionary Visor, and it doesn't just drop there. It drops from generic Garlean soldier type mobs which are found all over Eorzea, such as Cape Westwind in Western Thanalan, and the Sylphlands in the East Shroud. It's a fairly common drop too, given the fact the item is rather worthless other than glamour and therefore is just junk.

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Originally Posted by Enkidoh

- if there was, they most definitely would have been discovered long ago and imprisoned in research facilities

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This could be the case, however since we have not been to Garlemald yet, we are unsure either way.

We have seen Garleans both:

Succumb to tempering/imprinting, as well as fall to the influences of the Darkness (CT storyline). If the echo really is hydaelyn's form of tempering/gift, then a Garlean could obtain it as well, probably.

We have also seen Garlean pureblood defectors. I do not see why a Garlean could not be chosen to have the echo based on these criteria

However, as said before, this item would not turn the PC into a real Garlean, it would just be used for roleplay which is usually separate from the MSQ events, or to be used as a forehead decoration/gem

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Originally Posted by Titor

This could be the case, however since we have not been to Garlemald yet, we are unsure either way.

We have seen Garleans both:

Succumb to tempering/imprinting, as well as fall to the influences of the Darkness (CT storyline). If the echo really is hydaelyn's form of tempering/gift, then a Garlean could obtain it as well, probably.

We have also seen Garlean pureblood defectors. I do not see why a Garlean could not be chosen to have the echo based on these criteria

However, as said before, this item would not turn the PC into a real Garlean, it would just be used for roleplay which is usually separate from the MSQ events, or to be used as a forehead decoration/gem

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Pureblood garleans have no aetheric affinity I think? Having the blessing of light, let alone being a chosen of Hydalaen would be out of the question. Nor do I recall any true-blood garleans that pertain to the above.

Sure you can have a forehead gem could glamour, but trying to roleplay as a pureblood garlean is just smacking lore right in the face with the above in consideration.

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Originally Posted by RiceisNice

Pureblood garleans have no aetheric affinity I think? Having the blessing of light, let alone being a chosen of Hydalaen would be out of the question. Nor do I recall any true-blood garleans that pertain to the above.

Sure you can have a forehead gem could glamour, but trying to roleplay as a pureblood garlean is just smacking lore right in the face with the above in consideration.

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People don't generally RP their characters as the Warrior of Light, and separate the main story from their RP canon. Still, a pureblood garlean that happened to defect (which I imagine is rare) and has the echo (which is a rare ability) is kind of a stretch.

I'd think being able to interact with the past and the other like abilities that the echo offers, would involve aether at some point.

Yeah, very few RP as having the echo, and fewer rp as warriors of light. None of the Garlean rpers (myself included, on my garlean RP alts) that I know of RP as this. They mostly RP as engineers. If people want to rp as a garlean with the echo, however, I do not really care. I have seen bigger lorebreaking characters than someone RPing a Garlean with the echo.

Though, due to the examples I have stated above, I do not believe it out of a question for a Garlean to have the blessing of hydaelyn. If you read what I said in the spoilers, it already shows that they are able to be aetherically affected by primals and stuff. You do not have to use aether manipulation or anything to experience the echo, it seems to be more like hydaelyn putting thoughts in your head.

Maybe one of the lore devs could chime in? :D

Would still like to see this as an item!

Bump for visibility !

Still would like to see this!

The new expansion is supposed to be in the Garlean empire, i'm sure if so you'll have plenty of those items.

you realize what the echo IS right? Do you not remember the Leviathan quests? A pureblood Garlean could NEVER have the echo, impossible.

That aside, I don't see the harm in a forehead dot glamor. A bit of Eorzean blackface never hurt anyone

I would, still, like to see this item!

I usually wear haircuts with bangs so I can pretend I have a third eye. So yeah, I can get on board with this. Or, y'know, add a garlean sub-race to Hyur.