Quote Originally Posted by Mhaeric View Post
As an example, the Monk could be considered to be a sort of holy warrior given their chi theme.
That's only if you stretch the idea of the holy warrior *really* far, at which point you could fit *any* physical class with a remotely mystical theme to be a holy warrior. Templar is right smack dab in the middle of the holy warrior concept, right beside PLD: it's not "kind of" a holy warrior; it's an explicit holy warrior in the exact same vein. Templar is basically defined as a PLD that uses spears and knightswords instead of greatswords and knightswords.

Even if you make Templars devoted to the Ishgardian religious body, you're just creating a job that's just a paladin of a different organization: the theme is the exact same but you're changing the paint job a little. It would be just like giving CNJ a DPS job but have it join a secret cabal of users of an ancient magic of great power sealed away ages ago; all you're doing is parroting BLM. It's not like it *can't* be done, but it's really not the most creative or particularly interesting way to go about it. I'd much rather they actually try to do something other than give LNC the same paintjob that GLA gets when it's turned into PLD.