Quote Originally Posted by Gothicshark View Post
Full stop. This can't happen. Sadly because Garleans CAN NOT manipulate Aether, they can not be any Player class besides maybe Machinist.
Machinists still use aether. Quoting from Encyclopedia Eorzea:

Aetherotransformer
This device converts the wearer's aether into lighting-aspected energy, which is in turn stored within the transformer's crystal cores. The machinist then draws upon this accumulated energy to both power and enhance her unique repertoire of weapons, requiring her to master skills far beyond those trained by any mundane musketeer.
(Incidentally, the "lighting" thing is in the the book. I assume it's a typo and intended to be "lightning".)

Even Thancred who has some Garlean ancestry
Wait, what?