Archon Mark (Somewhat EW spoilery suggestion)

[viola_vilgrantz]

I've been thinking about it and, I feel as though now we have access to Sharlayan, we should get a questline post-Endwalker MSQ to obtain an Archon Mark for ourselves in the cosmetics menu as an additional facial feature. Not just for roleplaying purposes, but also for those of us who want to have more studious/intelligent answers during quests instead of your typical "brutish warrior of light who just wants money and combat thrill".
It would be a great way to reward those who cared to earn their Archon Mark with more intelligent responses when questioned about complex topics during the story, to have those options only appear if you're wearing it.
Granted, I'm sure someone will point out technical limitations when it comes to that, or that "x improvement is more urgent than this", but this is simply a hypothetical in an ideal scenario, which I'm offering as an alternative to those who are simply tired of being treated as stupid during the story dialogue, or want to finally earn their stripes in Sharlayan.
I for one really appreciated that you can introduce yourself as an artisan during the Sharlayan introductory quest, despite that being seen more as a joke than anything else.

[MistakeNot]

You don't get an Archon mark just for being studious/intelligent.
It indicates that you have completed the Sharlayan equivalent of a Ph.D. I.e. several years of advanced studies with a thesis at the end of it.

[Lihtleita]

only if you have to submit a 10k word thesis to the gms on an ingame subject of your choice

[Frizze]

I dont honestly see a problem with this. I mean if the devs wanted this to remain NPC only for lore reasons i couldnt argue, but i dont actually see a problem with a player earning this either. A lot of higher education programs award credit for applicable life experience, and my character has something like 600 levels of mage experience spread over 8 classes - a fine background for a thesis in applied aetherology or something. The quest itself takes care of the rest, and if it were somewhat grindy that would be fine too.

[viola_vilgrantz]

Yeah, I'm aware :P I'm just saying to get it through a series of quests and then have the story be about you studying in Sharlayan, but obviously making it short for time cause you don't want a several years spaning questline to get it. When I was talking about being a studious/intelligent character, I meant that I'd like if the archon mark let you pick more studious options of dialogue, since most of the time the msq only allows you to go "huh, what is everyone talking about? I'm a dumdum". (Obviously I'm generalizing, yes there are some quests they let you be a bit smarter, but generally you're just a brute, and an archon mark enabling more intelligent and knowledgable responses would be neat, :P)

[Voxilia]

As the WoL, we could do our Archon Thesis on the Ancients. Having interacted with them on such personal levels, the WoL knows more about Ancient life and culture than anyone currently living on the star. This should be a thing. Between this information, and life experience, the WoL has more than earned that mark!