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This may be old speculation; I didn't start playing until just before the last patches for Shadowbringers were released. But I was rewatching the Shadowbringers trailer & suddenly realized...Zenos had to survive Ghimlyt Dark. And didn't in the original timeline.

In the trailer, it shows the WoL killing Zenos, and it looks like that fight, using that cracked mask to suggest Zenos in someone else's body while showing him in his own so we know for certain who it is. And that's not what happened. *That* was the moment G'raha first significantly altered the timelines, by pulling the WoL out of their body for a conversation, which of course seemed like the absolute worst timing. Instead, I think it was the opposite, G'raha chose that moment intentionally. Because without Zenos, Black Rose was deployed which was what devastated the original timeline

There may have been nudges to the timeline earlier when he grabbed the Scions, but we know those weren't intentional. People like Estinien and Gaius were trying to stop Black Rose production, but they weren't enough. We know they weren't. It was only stopped because Zenos survived to kill Varis, reclaim his body, & stop Black Rose, whatever his twisted reasoning for doing so. So his survival was an important turning point.

Either way, I think that fight at the beginning of the trailer represented the moment the WoL killed Zenos in the original time line. It has no resemblance to what ultimately happened to Zenos in our timeline.

Zenos deciding to destroy the production of Black Rose might even be a bizarre instance of Azem's gift working even on an enemy who had begun to think of the wol as a friend in a twisted way, whatever the WoL thought of him. Certainly Azem's gift best accounts for his surprise appearance in U-T later.

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soon in Fragments

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Today's Seal Is: Ya Really Mean It?

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The way you change your immediate reactions to things is that you catch yourself having an uncharitable/bigoted/overly judgmental thought and you catch it and replace it and then you do that a hundred times a day for your whole life and eventually one day like five years later you realize that you think differently now and you’ll always be working on something but that’s how life goes and that’s fine.

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This is so cool! A new species of boa was discovered, Boa atlantica. Also great to see Argentines were elevated to species status. I need to update my Boa info files on here!

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All the fish in the Dawntrail Benchmark

Here's the name of all the fish species seen in the FFXIV Dawntrail Benchmark. ⚠ Please note: DO NOT assume these are species of fish that will be in Dawntrail! These are just existing aquarium fish models probably added as fill-in for the benchmark. Nothing more!

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Old Commission

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Bards in Dawntrail Be Like...

Fare thee well, Butt Lute.

Warm welcome to Guitar Bow!

(Wait... why not both?)

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She would have to be a half sister because Zenos's mother died shortly after giving birth

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ended up in thaleia with a couple of moby dick RPers

unfortunately, the fight with llymlaen did not contain any whales

unbeknownst to captain ahab, between battles i quickly edited my usual party greeting macro to work for alliance chat

videogames are good actually im going to be giggling about this all night

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BABY CAT

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More assorted doodles of my FFXIV Catman and friends...

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for as much as I love and adore stories where the power of hope and friendship is a blinding wonderful light, full of happiness and ease and laughter, something hits different about the way hope, in ffxiv, looks like this

covered in blood and dirt and limping forward. It’s probably been said multiple times before but isn’t it a reassuring image to know that hope drags itself through the mud just as much as you do and keeps fighting when it can hardly stand. and amidst deepest despair, light everlasting

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awwww cute gaelicats hold on wait-

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beastmaster erenville 🙏

i don't really care for designing outfits so i just tweaked the gleaner fit. as you can see my research into other ff bst looks didn't help, but they were kind of funny

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