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here are some sketches for friends to test out my new tablet! (please help me buy CSP for it, check out my post about commissions 🙏)

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instrument or sport if applicable in tags. if you wish

#guess who was in choir in middle school!!!#refused to continue in hs tho

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andrakesffxivdump · 3 years

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woooo boy i am taking latin this semester and all i can think of is the new area in endwalker called mare lamentorum. lets translate the name of this area with my newfound latin knowledge.

mare -> latin word for sea, in the nominative case (latin is an inflected language and thus words change form depending on their meaning within the sentence) (nominative just means that it is subject of the sentence) [the full dictionary entry would be: mare, maris, n. (nominative form, genitive form, gender) and it is an irregular 3rd declension i-stem noun] (declension just means what pattern the word uses when changing itself to fit with a case)

lamentorum -> this has multiple meanings, bc latin likes to have words mean different things, but luckily the meanings are pretty similar for this word. so there is: wailing (only in the plural), weeping, groans, and laments. now this word is in the genitive case (possessive case) which would be translated as x of laments. BUT it's also in the plural, (the singular genitive ending is -i while the plural is -orum) so we can use wailing instead and it would make sense. [lamentum, lamenti, n. (a 2nd declension noun)]

so the final translation would be "sea of wailing". and wooo boy do i have many thoughts about this.

from the teaser trailer released by the ffxiv team, we already know that there are ancient amaurotine buildings on the moon. it has also been implied that zodiark is sealed within the moon (makes sense since elidibus hung out there a lot). so, the obvious answer is that the "sea" refers to space in general (think seas of stars etc) and "of wailing" can refer to the amaroutines who passed when the planet was dying or those who sacrificed themselves to create zodiark. (it was mentioned how all the people were crying out for salvation, either by elidibus or yshtola i dont remember who) of course we dont know what else is on the moon.

in the teaser we also saw a crashed allagan themed contruct (likely a space ship or smth) which is either how we end up on the moon, or was left there by the allagans. makes sense since they have a history with meddling with moons considering they created dalamud.

there is also what appears to be vegetation and some fungus(?) looking stuff. so its not implausable that there are other lifeforms on the moon. my first guess for these lifeforms would be that the area of labyrithos that we recieved a preview for is on the moon as it has an artifical sun and sky (likely it is underground, even if its not on the moon). my guess is that the new beast tribe, the loporrits, live there. (little bunny things we were showed during the keynote)(they even have a little moon shaped thing to hold their little sash together im-)

the point is, im really excited to go to the moon. and theories are how i cope until it releases djfhdhadjfjsjdjfjfsk

if yall dont understand any of the process of the latin translation i did feel free to tell me! i will edit the post to make it as clear and easy to understand as possible.

#ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #endwalker #endwalker theory #endwalker theories #endwalker spoilers #uhhhh tell me if i missed any tags #featuring: my knowledge from one semester of latin!

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andrakesffxivdump · 3 years

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hmmmmMMMMMmmmmMmm

so.... amaurot in ff14 makes me feel,,,,some kinda way

its based off a city of the same name in a book called utopia (also apparently where hythlodaeus comes from i think) which uh. has a lot of implications as to what amarout was like/its society and what regard it was held in to other societies at the time

but the two dungeons after the main 5.0 story - akadaemia anyder and anamnesis anyder - are what im ranting about rn.

so i finally got around to searching up what these words actually mean and

now anyder doesnt really have a specific definition bc its not really a word. it is another word taken from utopia as it is the main river that runs through amaurot in the book. its taken from the word anhydrous which means waterless (which is kinda ironically funny, but im pretty sure utopia is meant to be satire anyways as its a book on a utopia that doesnt really exist)(side note: amarout is apparently taken from the greek word amaurotous which means disappearing so theres kinda a theme going on that really sets the tone for this so called utopia) also hey, amaurot is kinda underwater rn on the first so the whole water theme kinda has various meanings depending on what youre analyzing

akadaemia is simple: it kinda obviously comes from akademia, so smth like a school or university. considering the dungeon is a place where amaurotines researched and experimented on stuff like you might at a university or smth, its pretty accurate.

now anamnesis on the other hand gives me a lot of stuff to work with. the word means to reminisce about the past. so the first meaning for that is obviously: amaurot was an ancient civilization whos sundered souls were passed onto us (ie. azem and wol) and our souls can still somewhat remember the whole planet dying bc of whatever shit storm happened (but thats another post).

then we've got the explanation that is in context for the dungeon specifically. if you dont remember, or didnt pay attention, we end up fighting the concepts that amaurotines had created and preserved for ages (hmm memory motif), but more importantly, we get to see a recording of venat. now idk much about venat bc i havent done much research into their lore (someone can add that onto this post if they want) but we learn that venat is the one in charge of the whole hydalyn thing to oppose zodiark.

(im pretty sure that venat was also planning on become hydalyn's heart just as elidibus became zodiark's but id have to rewatch the cutscene)

ANYWAYS this is a pretty important memory as we piece together the major events that happened in amaurot. and when we tie it in with the memories theme that is somewhat explicitly stated in the very name of the dungeon, yeah it makes a lot of sense.

this information makes me feel a lot of ways esp considering that amaurot is one of my favourite areas in game (part of the reason to this is bc on first sight it reminded me of zanarkand with ffx, then all the dream zanarkand parallel with amaurot and....well you get the idea) (it only makes me more excited for the other ffx stuff in endwalker - ANIMA MY FAVOURITE AEON FOR ITS LORE, GAMEPLAY, AND DESIGN - so yeah)

ill prolly make a post about how i think how anima might play into the lore we have so far. so yknow.

#final fantasy xiv #ffxiv #ff14 #amaurot #lore #analysis #wow im for sure gonna make that anima post bc god i freakin love ffx #it was my first ff game and holds the most nostalgia for me #yuna my beloved....im was so gay for u....#and riku and lulu but like...yuna was def my main haha

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