Read this in korean inven forum. Thought it was pretty neat, and here is the translation with a bit of MSG on my part.
It seems that the ancient Ascians are based on Thomas More's Utopia):
Despite being wealthy, all people wear the same types of simple clothes and there are no dressmakers making fine apparel.
Childrens wear lavish clothing, but they soon grow to be shameful of it as they mature and begin to wear modestly.
Anyhow, in Utopia, lavish apparel equates to lower social statuses, such as children, slaves, prisoners, and sinner.
Perhaps this is why an NPC in Tempest believed you to be children on field trip, not because of your small size, but because of the way you dress.
Considering their status prior to the sundering, it is no wonder why Ascians wear the uniform and hide their faces with masks.
Emet-Selch was also wearing similarly, as seen in the gathering of the Ascians and the flashback of Vauthry's past. Yet, as Emet-Selch travels with WoL, he continues to wear a lavish apparel fitting for Solus zos Galvus, to the point where you even have a choice of asking him "Why are you still wearing that?" and Emet goes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Emet-Selch is stubbornly choosing to wear a lavish apparel, and we are lead to believe that he considers himself as a sinner, with a heavy burden. The cutscene from the Tempest by Hythlodaeus reveals that:
He will pay the price of our return by whatever means is necessary.
Emet-Selch is not a man to bear his burden lightly. In fact, I imagine they have only grown heavier with every passing century. A terrible weight he has chosen to carry.
The time with WoL wasn't an original plan and more of his personal hope. And let's remember where the idea of "personal" belong in the communal, utopian world of Ascians. Perhaps he was guilty of his time with WoL and was showing his repentance and grievance with his apparel. Perhaps he saw himself as a sinner, a sin of surviving, when his brethren died.
Upon his defeat as Hades, he left his final word as an Ascian (uniform), not as a sinner (emperor's dress), signifying that he alleviated himself of the heavy burden he carried on.
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It seems that the ancient Ascians are based on Thomas More's Utopia):
Despite being wealthy, all people wear the same types of simple clothes and there are no dressmakers making fine apparel.
Childrens wear lavish clothing, but they soon grow to be shameful of it as they mature and begin to wear modestly.
Anyhow, in Utopia, lavish apparel equates to lower social statuses, such as children, slaves, prisoners, and sinner.
Perhaps this is why an NPC in Tempest believed you to be children on field trip, not because of your small size, but because of the way you dress.
Considering their status prior to the sundering, it is no wonder why Ascians wear the uniform and hide their faces with masks.
Emet-Selch was also wearing similarly, as seen in the gathering of the Ascians and the flashback of Vauthry's past. Yet, as Emet-Selch travels with WoL, he continues to wear a lavish apparel fitting for Solus zos Galvus, to the point where you even have a choice of asking him "Why are you still wearing that?" and Emet goes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Emet-Selch is stubbornly choosing to wear a lavish apparel, and we are lead to believe that he considers himself as a sinner, with a heavy burden. The cutscene from the Tempest by Hythlodaeus reveals that:
He will pay the price of our return by whatever means is necessary.
Emet-Selch is not a man to bear his burden lightly. In fact, I imagine they have only grown heavier with every passing century. A terrible weight he has chosen to carry.
The time with WoL wasn't an original plan and more of his personal hope. And let's remember where the idea of "personal" belong in the communal, utopian world of Ascians. Perhaps he was guilty of his time with WoL and was showing his repentance and grievance with his apparel. Perhaps he saw himself as a sinner, a sin of surviving, when his brethren died.
Upon his defeat as Hades, he left his final word as an Ascian (uniform), not as a sinner (emperor's dress), signifying that he alleviated himself of the heavy burden he carried on.
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