Quote Originally Posted by Absimiliard View Post
Let's assume for a moment you are correct in your assertion that he is not a pureblood. What about the Garleans known to have infiltrated the Eorzean population? Is their ability to roll up in there, complete whatever espionage mission they were sent on, and roll on out to be disregarded? It's as simple as hiding their third eye.

But returning to the topic at hand; if that man's original nationality was so hidden, what's to prevent the same for the WoL? After all, you do enter Eorzea riding in the back of a wagon if you're not a legacy player.

For that matter, who cares if it clashes? Au Ra had to be retconned in to make sense, and half of them are more supposed to be more bloodthirsty than most of the enemies we deal with over the course of the game. If SE is willing to throw down retcons left, right, and center, then why would it be considered wildly inappropriate for players to have access to a handful of Garlean customizations options on matching body types?
I mean, he doesn't have a third eye, it's not like he's trying very hard to hide it even if he did have one considering those pathetic bangs. Maybe there's some obscure piece of lore that says some pureblooded Garleans don't have the third eye or maybe he pulled it out with a knife? But at that point you're making far bigger assumptions than just "he's a Garlean but most people don't know about it which is why it's not a big deal".
The lack of the third eye is kind of imperative to the argument here. He was hidden because he doesn't have one, an hypothetical Garlean WoL would need to have one otherwise what's even the point of adding Garleans as a race? But then do you really think it'd make sense for people like Gaius to look at your character and dismiss it and even go as far as to call you a common Eorzean adventurer when it should be obvious to him that's clearly not the case?
And I did bring up the Au Ra in this thread, which I do think the way they were handled was a mistake if the intent was always to have them become a playable race. While it's true that it's a thing that happened and it's now forever a part of the game I don't believe that kind of short-sighted thinking from early in the game's lifespan should be used to justify repeating the same mistake again.
A glamour piece would be good enough I feel.