Quote Originally Posted by BillyKaplan View Post
Friendly reminder that this and this exist. The devs themselves seem to have no qualms about unlocking the hempens sets when it suits them, so that also kills any lore related arguments, at least regarding these sets.
There's still somewhat of a lore-related argument: they are Garlean, who seem to be halfway between Hyur and Elezen to begin with - characters might have either race's basic model, and interestingly, both the guy in the second picture and at least one of the other performers on the Prima Vista have what are otherwise Duskwight-specific eye tattoos.

Also it tells us that they've modeled that one style of gear to fit Midlanders, which is a different level of undertaking to making all of the sets for all of the races.


(I'm not saying they shouldn't be unlocked, just that this is not so definitely breaking the lore-rules! Or it is, but sitting on an already blurrier line than there is between most of the other races.)