Its content from the last expansion but i started right at the tail end of stormblood myself and have only picked up the quests he's been involved in over the last few months to unlock bozja so I'm going to mark this as a spoiler in case there are more fairly new players that don't want to know anything at all about any content they may do in the future. It's unlikely to have heavy spoilers but will lean into a lot of speculation and most likely nonsense but i want to see what reddit thinks. I'm sure some lore experts visit here.
I remember it being said that only a pure blooded Garlean can have a third eye but why is this the case when Jenomis said himself that he was the descendant of the writer of the Durai papers who we see during an echo vison does not have a third eye. In fact During the same alliance raid quest chain Ramza, i believe, stated that there was a theory that Garleans may have originally came from the city that later became the lighthouse and were later displaced far from their former home which if true would confirm that it wouldn't just be the Lexentale family which could trace their lineage back to the region around Dalmasca but most, if not all of Garlemald as well yet none of the people shown in the echo vision have a third eye. Not even Jenomis' presumed ancestors despite him apparently having this trait himself.
Why is this?
Is the third eye something that developed after Orran Durai and his contemporaries lived and if so why did it develop? Does the eye have something to do with a Garlean's inability to wield magic and if so was it a natural development? It certainly possible if enough time could have passed but how long has it been since the days of Orran and the modern people of Garlemald? Is that enough time for something so distinct to appear? If it's unnatural who did it to them? I've often suspected that at some unknown time the Garleans were meddled with and cut off from the ability to wield magic because of how much of an outlier they are in a world where everyone else can apparently harness magic and they can't. An Ascian who had long ago planted the seeds for a xenophobic, sneering people who might be receptive to spitting in the eye of the rest of the world, to "reclaim" what was theirs through new found power?
If the allagan empire came after Orran Durai then perhaps they found a displaced people easy pickings and claimed them as servants or slaves and modified them to help prevent an uprising but again the matter of how long ago this could have happened comes along, Garlemald clearly reveres allag, it's seemingly a nation modelled somewhat after it's predecessor empire and while its not impossible for enough time to pass for bitter subjugation to become enamoured with the power their old rulers once had (it's certainly happened in the real world, look at how buildings in Europe from only centuries ago were modelled after roman buildings, signifying a sense of grandeur and power.) has enough time passed?
Could it be both?
Was it something they did to themselves? What caused the explosion at the clockwork city and could this have been related to the development of their third eye or lack of magical ability?
Was the eye introduced when those that potentially fled the clockwork city mixed with another group of people? Given that its something "only a pureblood" can have it sounds like a recessive genetic trait rather than some kind of magical marker that recognised people of specific birth and gives them the feature. It's possible that a family that lost the third eye through mingling with others that did not have the gene could therefore see it return when two people that didn't physically but each had the recessive gene for it had a child with a complete pair. Maybe since it was rare it was sought after for some reason and so became more common. I still find it very strange that any group of people could naturally be cut off from magic when its so common everywhere else.
Is it something that was less common at the time Orran was alive?
Is Jenomis' eye a rouse, a cultural prosthetic that integrated citizens might make use of to better fit in and if so how long has his line made use of them and why dosen't Ramza use one when he's clearly quite proud of being raised in Garlemald? If one were available then he'd have certainly wanted to use one so why not? The best explanation i can think of would be that it required invasive surgery so i think the idea of it being a prosthetic is less likely but I wouldn't rule it out.
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I remember it being said that only a pure blooded Garlean can have a third eye but why is this the case when Jenomis said himself that he was the descendant of the writer of the Durai papers who we see during an echo vison does not have a third eye. In fact During the same alliance raid quest chain Ramza, i believe, stated that there was a theory that Garleans may have originally came from the city that later became the lighthouse and were later displaced far from their former home which if true would confirm that it wouldn't just be the Lexentale family which could trace their lineage back to the region around Dalmasca but most, if not all of Garlemald as well yet none of the people shown in the echo vision have a third eye. Not even Jenomis' presumed ancestors despite him apparently having this trait himself.
Why is this?
Is the third eye something that developed after Orran Durai and his contemporaries lived and if so why did it develop? Does the eye have something to do with a Garlean's inability to wield magic and if so was it a natural development? It certainly possible if enough time could have passed but how long has it been since the days of Orran and the modern people of Garlemald? Is that enough time for something so distinct to appear? If it's unnatural who did it to them? I've often suspected that at some unknown time the Garleans were meddled with and cut off from the ability to wield magic because of how much of an outlier they are in a world where everyone else can apparently harness magic and they can't. An Ascian who had long ago planted the seeds for a xenophobic, sneering people who might be receptive to spitting in the eye of the rest of the world, to "reclaim" what was theirs through new found power?
If the allagan empire came after Orran Durai then perhaps they found a displaced people easy pickings and claimed them as servants or slaves and modified them to help prevent an uprising but again the matter of how long ago this could have happened comes along, Garlemald clearly reveres allag, it's seemingly a nation modelled somewhat after it's predecessor empire and while its not impossible for enough time to pass for bitter subjugation to become enamoured with the power their old rulers once had (it's certainly happened in the real world, look at how buildings in Europe from only centuries ago were modelled after roman buildings, signifying a sense of grandeur and power.) has enough time passed?
Could it be both?
Was it something they did to themselves? What caused the explosion at the clockwork city and could this have been related to the development of their third eye or lack of magical ability?
Was the eye introduced when those that potentially fled the clockwork city mixed with another group of people? Given that its something "only a pureblood" can have it sounds like a recessive genetic trait rather than some kind of magical marker that recognised people of specific birth and gives them the feature. It's possible that a family that lost the third eye through mingling with others that did not have the gene could therefore see it return when two people that didn't physically but each had the recessive gene for it had a child with a complete pair. Maybe since it was rare it was sought after for some reason and so became more common. I still find it very strange that any group of people could naturally be cut off from magic when its so common everywhere else.
Is it something that was less common at the time Orran was alive?
Is Jenomis' eye a rouse, a cultural prosthetic that integrated citizens might make use of to better fit in and if so how long has his line made use of them and why dosen't Ramza use one when he's clearly quite proud of being raised in Garlemald? If one were available then he'd have certainly wanted to use one so why not? The best explanation i can think of would be that it required invasive surgery so i think the idea of it being a prosthetic is less likely but I wouldn't rule it out.
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