Character Creation Has A Race Problem

[Iscah]

Taoism, from the glamour. Angels and devils, Christianity.

Unless they talk about those things in ways that clearly link them to their real-world origins, they exist in the game world, and it makes more sense to "explain them" as such. Otherwise everything in the game that also exists in the real world is a real-world reference!

I'll admit, naming the "Taoist" set seems like a direct reference, although you could theorise that the same philosophy exists in-world (just replace 'China' with Doma or Nagxia or wherever they want to set it).

The angel and demon sets are, to our perspective, based on stylised figures from Christianity, but that doesn't necessarily require the in-world creator of the costume to be aware of those concepts. Maybe there's a parallel concept somewhere in Eorzean religion, or maybe someone just said "hey, wouldn't it be cool to make a coat with giant bird wings on it?"

In any case, since they only exist as cash shop items, I don't feel like they necessarily even exist in game lore.

EDIT TO ADD: Having remembered that, of course, demons (ie. voidsent) do exist in-world, I went looking in the lorebook bestiary to see if there were any that particularly looked like the glamour designs. There's the Blackguard encountered in the Void Ark (a feather-winged knight) and also for the angelic side of things, the enchanted statue Kuribu, guardian of Amdapor. So records of the Amdapor-Mhach "War of the Magi" could serve as game-world inspiration for the costumes.

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Yes, that's Kugane. In Hingashi. What's this Japan you're talking about? Nobody there has heard of it.