Quote Originally Posted by shadowclasper View Post
Okay, so while I can agree with everything else you've said. This one actually does have an entirely canon explanation.

Glamours.

Glamours are straight up stated to be full transformations of appearance. It's why you can wear say, the chocobo head or literally any big and expansive armor set and then have it glamoured to 'the emperor's new X' or something else, and vice versa.
Heck glamor prisms were used to hide Rhalgr's Reach for so long and was used into tricking Fordola and the troops stationed at where the Anata tribal quests are at. As the Ala Mhigan flag that we "unfurl" is just a glamor. Also isn't there a comment about part of the Blitzen mount we got from the most recent Starlight Celebration being a glamor as well?