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Beneath Yon Burning Star (FFXIV)

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I main ranged phys so my affinity for some choices is pretty strong here!

I do think hunting is a great grab in general, since it covers a pretty broad array of skills that are pretty widely applicable. A background with alchemy and sneaking and basic skill at tracking are pretty useful for a mercenary or adventurer in ways that our Myrmidon skills simply won't cover, but most all the options look neat, and can probably be folded into something quite useful and interesting in the long run.

[X] Hunting. The sport of princes and the salvation of paupers, a mercenary who can hunt and gather from flora is never at risk of starving. You learned to hunt with stealth and trickery, laying traps and following tracks with equal skill, and studied alchemy to anoint your weapons with poison.

[X] Dancing. Once a form of meditation, then a martial art, the dances of your homeland are frenetic and joyous. It is said that masters of the art could shake the earth with their steps and stir fire in dead hearts, but for you it was only ever a way to relax, and let the cares of the world drain away.
 
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[X] Cooking. A mercenary who can turn trail rations into a feast is always welcome, and you take comfort in recreating the meals of your childhood. Alas the salts and spices of your native cuisine are harder to come by nowadays, especially on a budget, but you have learned enough herb lore to compensate.

[X] Metalshaping. Though you were never the equal of your Ananta teacher, you did manage to pick up some of her tricks for weaving metal and sculpting crystals into things of beauty. Practice is hard to come by nowadays, for an Ala Mhigan bearing such exotic wealth is often assumed to have stolen it.
 
[X] Cooking. A mercenary who can turn trail rations into a feast is always welcome, and you take comfort in recreating the meals of your childhood. Alas the salts and spices of your native cuisine are harder to come by nowadays, especially on a budget, but you have learned enough herb lore to compensate.

[X] Dancing. Once a form of meditation, then a martial art, the dances of your homeland are frenetic and joyous. It is said that masters of the art could shake the earth with their steps and stir fire in dead hearts, but for you it was only ever a way to relax, and let the cares of the world drain away.
 
[X] Hunting. The sport of princes and the salvation of paupers, a mercenary who can hunt and gather from flora is never at risk of starving. You learned to hunt with stealth and trickery, laying traps and following tracks with equal skill, and studied alchemy to anoint your weapons with poison.

[X] Metalshaping. Though you were never the equal of your Ananta teacher, you did manage to pick up some of her tricks for weaving metal and sculpting crystals into things of beauty. Practice is hard to come by nowadays, for an Ala Mhigan bearing such exotic wealth is often assumed to have stolen it.
 
[X] Dancing. Once a form of meditation, then a martial art, the dances of your homeland are frenetic and joyous. It is said that masters of the art could shake the earth with their steps and stir fire in dead hearts, but for you it was only ever a way to relax, and let the cares of the world drain away.
 
[X] Cooking. A mercenary who can turn trail rations into a feast is always welcome, and you take comfort in recreating the meals of your childhood. Alas the salts and spices of your native cuisine are harder to come by nowadays, especially on a budget, but you have learned enough herb lore to compensate.

[X] Prospecting. While you are no miner to labour in a shaft, you did learn to scout and search for sources of water and flora amid the barren lands of your home, and to deduce the most subtle details of the world through taste and touch. Frustratingly, finding natural wealth is easier by far than keeping it from the Syndicate's grasping hands.
 
[X] Cooking. A mercenary who can turn trail rations into a feast is always welcome, and you take comfort in recreating the meals of your childhood. Alas the salts and spices of your native cuisine are harder to come by nowadays, especially on a budget, but you have learned enough herb lore to compensate.

[X] Metalshaping. Though you were never the equal of your Ananta teacher, you did manage to pick up some of her tricks for weaving metal and sculpting crystals into things of beauty. Practice is hard to come by nowadays, for an Ala Mhigan bearing such exotic wealth is often assumed to have stolen it.
 
[X] Cooking. A mercenary who can turn trail rations into a feast is always welcome, and you take comfort in recreating the meals of your childhood. Alas the salts and spices of your native cuisine are harder to come by nowadays, especially on a budget, but you have learned enough herb lore to compensate.

[X] Hunting. The sport of princes and the salvation of paupers, a mercenary who can hunt and gather from flora is never at risk of starving. You learned to hunt with stealth and trickery, laying traps and following tracks with equal skill, and studied alchemy to anoint your weapons with poison.

These compliment each other nicely and could see a decent amount of use, even amid Thanalan's deserts.
 
[X] Cooking. A mercenary who can turn trail rations into a feast is always welcome, and you take comfort in recreating the meals of your childhood. Alas the salts and spices of your native cuisine are harder to come by nowadays, especially on a budget, but you have learned enough herb lore to compensate.

[X] Dancing. Once a form of meditation, then a martial art, the dances of your homeland are frenetic and joyous. It is said that masters of the art could shake the earth with their steps and stir fire in dead hearts, but for you it was only ever a way to relax, and let the cares of the world drain away.
 
[X] Cooking. A mercenary who can turn trail rations into a feast is always welcome, and you take comfort in recreating the meals of your childhood. Alas the salts and spices of your native cuisine are harder to come by nowadays, especially on a budget, but you have learned enough herb lore to compensate.

[X] Metalshaping. Though you were never the equal of your Ananta teacher, you did manage to pick up some of her tricks for weaving metal and sculpting crystals into things of beauty. Practice is hard to come by nowadays, for an Ala Mhigan bearing such exotic wealth is often assumed to have stolen it.
 
[X] Cooking. A mercenary who can turn trail rations into a feast is always welcome, and you take comfort in recreating the meals of your childhood. Alas the salts and spices of your native cuisine are harder to come by nowadays, especially on a budget, but you have learned enough herb lore to compensate.

[X] Dancing. Once a form of meditation, then a martial art, the dances of your homeland are frenetic and joyous. It is said that masters of the art could shake the earth with their steps and stir fire in dead hearts, but for you it was only ever a way to relax, and let the cares of the world drain away.
 
[X] Cooking. A mercenary who can turn trail rations into a feast is always welcome, and you take comfort in recreating the meals of your childhood. Alas the salts and spices of your native cuisine are harder to come by nowadays, especially on a budget, but you have learned enough herb lore to compensate.

[X] Metalshaping. Though you were never the equal of your Ananta teacher, you did manage to pick up some of her tricks for weaving metal and sculpting crystals into things of beauty. Practice is hard to come by nowadays, for an Ala Mhigan bearing such exotic wealth is often assumed to have stolen it.
 
[x] Cooking. A mercenary who can turn trail rations into a feast is always welcome, and you take comfort in recreating the meals of your childhood. Alas the salts and spices of your native cuisine are harder to come by nowadays, especially on a budget, but you have learned enough herb lore to compensate.

[x] Hunting. The sport of princes and the salvation of paupers, a mercenary who can hunt and gather from flora is never at risk of starving. You learned to hunt with stealth and trickery, laying traps and following tracks with equal skill, and studied alchemy to anoint your weapons with poison.
 
[x] Cooking. A mercenary who can turn trail rations into a feast is always welcome, and you take comfort in recreating the meals of your childhood. Alas the salts and spices of your native cuisine are harder to come by nowadays, especially on a budget, but you have learned enough herb lore to compensate.

[x] Hunting. The sport of princes and the salvation of paupers, a mercenary who can hunt and gather from flora is never at risk of starving. You learned to hunt with stealth and trickery, laying traps and following tracks with equal skill, and studied alchemy to anoint your weapons with poison.
 
I really like the idea of dancing. Some holdover of the actual culture of our people we can teach the the younger refugees to give them something tangible to hold onto.

Also, the image of a grizzled old catman letting go and dancing is fun.
 
Get the food + cook the food.

[x] Cooking. A mercenary who can turn trail rations into a feast is always welcome, and you take comfort in recreating the meals of your childhood. Alas the salts and spices of your native cuisine are harder to come by nowadays, especially on a budget, but you have learned enough herb lore to compensate.

[x] Hunting. The sport of princes and the salvation of paupers, a mercenary who can hunt and gather from flora is never at risk of starving. You learned to hunt with stealth and trickery, laying traps and following tracks with equal skill, and studied alchemy to anoint your weapons with poison.
 
[X] Cooking. A mercenary who can turn trail rations into a feast is always welcome, and you take comfort in recreating the meals of your childhood. Alas the salts and spices of your native cuisine are harder to come by nowadays, especially on a budget, but you have learned enough herb lore to compensate.

[X] Metalshaping. Though you were never the equal of your Ananta teacher, you did manage to pick up some of her tricks for weaving metal and sculpting crystals into things of beauty. Practice is hard to come by nowadays, for an Ala Mhigan bearing such exotic wealth is often assumed to have stolen it.

The Ananta - among many other narrative elements - got done kinda dirty in Stormblood itself, so I can't not vote for it! As for the other, cooking in general seems a highly versatile social skill that can be the focus of a lot of narrative setpieces moving forward.
 
[X] Dancing. Once a form of meditation, then a martial art, the dances of your homeland are frenetic and joyous. It is said that masters of the art could shake the earth with their steps and stir fire in dead hearts, but for you it was only ever a way to relax, and let the cares of the world drain away.

[X] Metalshaping. Though you were never the equal of your Ananta teacher, you did manage to pick up some of her tricks for weaving metal and sculpting crystals into things of beauty. Practice is hard to come by nowadays, for an Ala Mhigan bearing such exotic wealth is often assumed to have stolen it.
 
[X] Metalshaping. Though you were never the equal of your Ananta teacher, you did manage to pick up some of her tricks for weaving metal and sculpting crystals into things of beauty. Practice is hard to come by nowadays, for an Ala Mhigan bearing such exotic wealth is often assumed to have stolen it.

[X] Cooking. A mercenary who can turn trail rations into a feast is always welcome, and you take comfort in recreating the meals of your childhood. Alas the salts and spices of your native cuisine are harder to come by nowadays, especially on a budget, but you have learned enough herb lore to compensate.
 
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[X] Dancing. Once a form of meditation, then a martial art, the dances of your homeland are frenetic and joyous. It is said that masters of the art could shake the earth with their steps and stir fire in dead hearts, but for you it was only ever a way to relax, and let the cares of the world drain away.

[X] Metalshaping. Though you were never the equal of your Ananta teacher, you did manage to pick up some of her tricks for weaving metal and sculpting crystals into things of beauty. Practice is hard to come by nowadays, for an Ala Mhigan bearing such exotic wealth is often assumed to have stolen it.
 
[x] Cooking. A mercenary who can turn trail rations into a feast is always welcome, and you take comfort in recreating the meals of your childhood. Alas the salts and spices of your native cuisine are harder to come by nowadays, especially on a budget, but you have learned enough herb lore to compensate.

[x] Hunting. The sport of princes and the salvation of paupers, a mercenary who can hunt and gather from flora is never at risk of starving. You learned to hunt with stealth and trickery, laying traps and following tracks with equal skill, and studied alchemy to anoint your weapons with poison.
 
Adhoc vote count started by Unsung on Jan 20, 2022 at 10:03 PM, finished with 32 posts and 30 votes.
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[X] Cooking. A mercenary who can turn trail rations into a feast is always welcome, and you take comfort in recreating the meals of your childhood. Alas the salts and spices of your native cuisine are harder to come by nowadays, especially on a budget, but you have learned enough herb lore to compensate.

[X] Metalshaping. Though you were never the equal of your Ananta teacher, you did manage to pick up some of her tricks for weaving metal and sculpting crystals into things of beauty. Practice is hard to come by nowadays, for an Ala Mhigan bearing such exotic wealth is often assumed to have stolen it.
 
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