Tried to design Chemist

[Saefinn]

Or medic, or biologist, or anything involving a healing science/pseudoscience. There's plenty of sources out there, and it doesn't need to be from Final Fantasy.

As a friend of mine has suggested before, Medicus. Make use of existing Garlean lore, add a Garlean job and it can be related to science and technology. There's probably a good chance we end up going to Garlemauld too. It'd be appropriate for the FFXIV world and could throw in some Chemist concepts in there. Garleans are not averse to using chemicals and poisons too. And there could even be references to cheap knock-off Hojo from SB.

[Shurrikhan]

As a friend of mine has suggested before, Medicus. Make use of existing Garlean lore, add a Garlean job and it can be related to science and technology. There's probably a good chance we end up going to Garlemauld too. It'd be appropriate for the FFXIV world and could throw in some Chemist concepts in there. Garleans are not averse to using chemicals and poisons too. And there could even be references to cheap knock-off Hojo from SB.

I'm still holding onto hope that the Black Rose actually did go off somewhere, if only as a testing site, but some unexpected attributes came with it: (1) it spreads on its own, and (2) just as their is a chance of death by aether-affixiation, there's a chance of one's means of drawing aether becoming twisted in order to survive, granting new powers. And so, instead of a simple biological bomb with no further plot opportunities, you have a magic plague worth studying both to prevent and... to exploit. Thus, we get our empiricists/augers/plague doctors, a much more ominous sort of chemist with plenty else to flesh out their kits.