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#haurchefant greystone #ffxiv #dragonsong reprise ultimate #haurchewol #haurchefant x wol #I am unwell #screaming crying throwing up #ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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My hottest take about Heavensward I guess is that Haurchefant should have come on the Dravanian road trip. For being such a major character in HW we get to do surprisingly little with him until the very end. Just imagine: Ysayle like "I will expose the truth and tear down the Holy See," and Estinien all "I'M GONNA STAB NIDHOGG SEVENTY-SEVEN TIMES" and Haurchefant in the middle like, "Is it not a sign of Halone's blessing that we are here together, comrades all, working for the good of Ishgard!! 😊😊😊" He'd have been so proud of Alphinaud for building his little campfire. And he'd have fucking loved the moogles.

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when you get cleared of regicide charges in the middle of HW

#LMAOOOO

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in the ShB role quests, we watch each of Ardbert's party members make some sort of personal sacrifice, forced to discard their own goals, for the sake of the greater good. The moment they make that choice is when a Crystal of Light appears, officially marking them as Warriors of Light in recognition of their heroism and sacrifice. "By your sacrifice, a warrior made.", as the Shadowkeeper says in battle.

The same lore doesn't hold true for the WoL, back when they were in crystal-collecting mode in ARR and HW, the crystals just appear after major victories without the need for some sort of momentous sacrifice, and seem to serve mostly as a marker of how much story progress you've made/need to make to the end of the expac.

But if you think about it not lore-wise, but symbolically -

With each victory over a Primal, you're ensuring that you'll be the person who'll be called upon for help when next a Primal appears. You're cementing your own role as hero each time.

And each time, you are making personal sacrifices.

You might not even realize it until much later, what you have offered up, bit by bit - your freedom, your peace of mind, your own goals and desires, for the sake of the greater good of the star.

"By your sacrifice, a warrior made."

#yep. Yeah #good post #ffxiv #shadowbringers #shadowbringers spoilers #never thought about it this way but makes absolutely sense #I've also unknowingly incorporated these sacrifices in my own WoL's lore and story #and the path to becoming a hero and a savior in ARR makes sure that you'll have to make further sacrifices along the way #even in heavensward you end up sacrificing a lot *sobs* #and in exchange you gain your Crystals back

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It has come to my attention that Sidurgu from the DRK questline has the moniker of "Sidurgu of the Obsidian heart" which is funky because yeah it sounds edgy- obsidian is black and shiny so it's cool right?

W R O N G

Obsidian is GLASS. Sidurgu has a glass heart. Obsidian can also be extremely sharp- sharper than steel. But it is still so much more brittle and will break if it is not used correctly.

Dark Knight at the end of the day is a protector- they train like hell to be able to protect what is important to them. The path of the Dark Knight is not an easy one- a Dark Knight will inevitably have to kill for the greater good. So they need to be stronger than everyone else. Sharper, if you will.

All of this because the Dark Knight is born out of love. The first Dark Knight was seen as a monster by the Holy See because he protected a child. Their hearts are just as fragile as anyone else's but they have tempered their body and soul to be strong enough to stand tall and protect the innocent in this essay I will-

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There's nothing inherently wrong with the Ancients choosing to live solely for the sake of the star, except their over-emphasis on their duty leads to Hermes's crisis and through him their downfall. On the flipside there's nothing inherently wrong (putting aside all the atrocities for one second) with Zenos choosing to live solely for his own pleasure except that it's shown to be a lonely and empty existence.

I hate criticisms of Hermes that blame him for being too sensitive or too depressed, but if there's any fault that he committed it's that when he had his whole existential crisis, he chose to make Meteion to find answers for him rather than find them for himself, and then accepts her answers without arguments when she returns. Shit, even Zenos understands that the meaning of life, of each individual's life, has to be decided by them:

Endwalker shows you a variety of potential answers to the question of meaning, but you don't get to choose from them. To explain, when Venat asks you how your journey has been you get interrupted before you can answer. When Zenos asks you whether you thought life was a gift or a burden, you are also unable to answer. It would be impossible for the game system to account for all the potential answers one could choose to either question, and forcing you to choose from a small list would essentially railroading you into understanding the story a certain way. I think what Zenos says here is a large part of Endwalker's existential thesis: That you have to decide for yourself.

(wait, does that make me a hypocrite then for trying to explain the meaning of a story who's meaning is to find meaning for yourself? AGH)

#endwalker #endwalker spoilers #ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #ff14 #ffxiv spoilers #such a good analysis! #overlooking Hermes' issues leading quite literally to the apocalypse as a metaphor for ignoring the needs of the individual leading to ruin

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haurchefant is working ok

#ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #haurchefant greystone #heart eyes

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will you live to see the end? 

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I had been spoiled about his death when I was playing ARR, and judging by the negligible relevance of the character back then I was expecting that he would be killed as a collateral in a GoT-style plot between houses, while the WoL was absent and otherwise occupied. Then The Vault came, and as soon as the cutscene began I screamed "NO! HE'S GOING TO DIE PROTECTING ME"

Thinking about how I’d known Haurchefant died from early on (I wasn’t spoiled-spoiled - I just had a feeling from Reactions I’d gotten when mentioning that my wol loved him) and it was so still much worse than I thought it would be

Because, since I knew it was coming I started looking for signs of the when’s and how’s of it. And the lead up to The Vault was pretty fucking obvious with that in mind.

So I’m listening to Haurchefant make his impassioned speeches after Aymeric is captured. How it’s his Knightly Duty to Aid Those in Need and Rescue a Good Honorable Man like Ser Aymeric etc etc

And I go “oh yeah okay he’s going to have his big Knight Moment and die saving Aymeric gotcha gotcha”

And then. he doesn’t.

He dies saving the Warrior of Light.

And I’m sure it’s a different read if you don’t ship your WoL with him but boy fucking howdy if, like me, you do!!

It’s Haurchefant, who has put so much of his fucking identity into knighthood and serving Ishgard and all that jazz, in the single emotional instant of the Warrior of Light being in peril - throwing all of that away to protect them. because in that instant that is all that matters to him. they are all that matters to him.

it's there in his final words, how he says "forgive me, i could not bear the thought [of you being harmed]"

he loved the Warrior of Light so much that for a second it eclipsed everything else. and thats what killed him.

anyways my WoL is real fucked up about this everyone have a nice night

#heavensward spoilers #haurchefant greystone #classic they make you care for him and then they kill him in the most painful way possible for your character

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Become what you must... The Warrior of Darkness.

#ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #ff14 #ffxiv fanart #ffxiv spoilers #male miqo'te #shadowbringers #shadowbringers spoilers #ffxiv shadowbringers #that one scene after holminster switch

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Hello handsome, doomed by the narrative all on your own?

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The Crystal Exarch is about to isekai the WoL

#ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #ff14 #ffxiv spoilers #ffxiv fanart #shadowbringers spoilers #crystal exarch #shadowbringers #g'raha tia

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The Third Seat bows out of this world after 12,000 years of pining

#ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #ff14 #ffxiv fanart #ffxiv spoilers #shadowbringers spoilers #shadowbringers #emet selch #long post #my art #watercolor art

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Year of the Dragon Year of the First Brood! HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR! With my attempt at a Bahamut and Ratatoskr too! ;v;

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A Knight to Remember

#haurchefant #haurchefant greystone #heavensward #Heavensward spoilers #ff14 #ffxiv #vertical #b'ig #static art #long post #aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa #sobs #aaaaaaaaa #aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa #aaaaaaaaaaaaaa #aaaaaaaaaaaa

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Haurchefant: Maybe in another lifetime, my love.

WOL: That's not fair. I want you in this one.

#haurchewol #ueueuueue #haurchefant x wol #haurchefant greystone #haurchefant de fortemps #ffxiv #I'M CRYING #This is one of the scenarios in my mind with haurchewol #like they promise to meet again in another life but I've always thought #I WANT HAURCHEFANT IN THIS LIFETIME

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This style of coloring reminds me a bit of CLAMP and that's the concept I had in mind when painting this Oschon portrait ANYWAY DID YOU KNOW THAT THE JAPANESE VOICE ACTOR FOR OSCHON IS THE SAME AS HAURCHEFANT

#ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #ff14 #ffxiv fanart #ffxiv spoilers #oschon #deryk ffxiv