Women and Armor!

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Google for Kunoichi.

http://www.worldofjapan.net/2011/12/...irst-kunoichi/

Wait, you're telling me a feudal japanese noblewoman was happy to exploit war orphans and prostitutes? Say it ain't so.

The Wikipedia article has not a single cited reference of them wearing revealing clothing. It also does not fit with any of the known lore about what Ninjas are in XIV. In this game, no exception is made for the difference in strength between male and female characters, even though it exists in real life, so there's no reason for them to rely on playing the performer/seductress role that your source indicates. Again, if the ninja AF were available in its fully-covering form for females and a revealing form for males too, then we would have no problem there either.

While the image of a ninja clad in black garb (shinobi shōzoku) is prevalent in popular media, there is no written evidence for such a costume.[75] Instead, it was much more common for the ninja to be disguised as civilians. The popular notion of black clothing is likely rooted in artistic convention; early drawings of ninja were showed them dressed in black in order to portray a sense of invisibility.[44]

But no, you're right. Female Ninjas all dressed in Eastern armour with a hole slashed across two vital organs.