Quote Originally Posted by Stitches1974 View Post
I think this post explains it fairly well.
Just my personal distaste at this point. You'd think the major magical nation of the modern era would be the one to have the last of the three primary Final Fantasy spellcasters. It'd make a lot of sense for why we haven't seen Red Mages before (Sharlayan doesn't like to share), explains how Red Mages even came about (the lore makes it seem like there were active witch-hunts after the flood so its hard to image Red Mages starting out on Eorzea where they'd get lynched), and matches up well with the Sharlayan aesthetic (nothing we've seen from Ala Mhigo/Gyr Abania remotely looks like that AF set in terms of aesthetic).