Quote Originally Posted by Abriael View Post
I'm quite sure the "scholar" hatted person is just an arcanist with which Akihiko Yoshida took some liberties in costume design.

Art doesn't necessarily have to follow strict rules, and the "rule" that those need to be all jobs is IMHO just a (probably wrong) assumption

The arcanist appeared only In final Fantasy Tactics a2 before, so it's very possible that they simply merged Arcanist and Scholar's concepts.

On a side note, on the text art site the question of the day is "what job you'd like to see introduced in FFXIV?"

What did everyone vote? I voted Samurai and Dancer

If you don't know how to vote, here's how:

I reaaallllllyyyy want a Final Fantasy XIV version of a Summoner, Red Mage and Dancer. (^_^ )

Mentioned all the way at the top.