#gwiber

[draconesmundi]

Happy Dracones Mundi, Gwiber!

Trying to strike a balance between 'adder like' and 'very colourful serpent' but giving this gwiber bright wings and featherlike wattles! Gwiberod are flying serpents from Welsh folklore!

For a new dragon every Monday follow @draconesmundi

#Gwiber #Dracones Mundi #Dracones Monday

[tarotoro0]

Fae-themed piece, thank you for commissioning!

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[dated-radz-at-han-coin]

Well Emerald Weapon sure was being more generous than Ruby, did we get four drop out of 10+ runs while Ruby only blessed us with one.

#ffxiv #ffxiv screenshots #emerald gwiber #gwiber #mounts #having an urge to work towards the mecha dragon

[peculiarmarsu]

This marks the day I got my first dragon, haven’t done much extreme farming... :D Back with Shadowbringers I toyed with the idea of lil dragonet becoming this big fella.

#ffxiv #ff14 #ffxiv screenshots #final fantasy xiv #gwiber

[ver-caster]

Got my first Gwiber!

#ffxiv #ffxiv miqo'te #Gwiber #ffxivonline #red mage #gpose #final fantasy gpose #ff14 #ff14 ffxiv #ffxiv miqo #ffxiv oc #ffxiv screenshots #FFXIV ​screencaps #b’runi masna

[xii-ember]

I got the Hades gwib today after running it 50 times for the totems xD

#ffxiv #ffxiv screenshots #final fantasy 14 #final fantasy xiv #xiiember #ffxiv gwiber #gwiber #ffxiv hades #ffxiv mount #ffxiv gpose #gpose #miqote #ffxiv glamour #ff14 screenshot #ff14 #ff14 gpose #final fantasy #final fantasy gpose

[mabwee]

Ah. So this is why I only ever see gpose of this mount from side angles.

#ffxiv #gwiber #innocence GET #ardyn hoboking #this one took 70 runs but i stuck around for 10 extra for a group kill me

[halybs]

That one hue meme, but with the FFXIV mounts I like

#drawin #ffxivart #ffxiv #ff14 #final fantasy #final fantasy 14 #final fantasy xiv #dragon #digital art #midgardsormr #kirin #fat cat #fae gwiber #arion #battle panther #cerberus #tyrannosaur #mount #inked and digitally colored

[mimble-sparklepudding]

Fae Gwiber

@miqomischief you weren't kidding about how small it is! Even for Mimble (who is the smallest possible Lalafell). Still pretty though.

#mimble sparklepudding #fae gwiber #ffxiv mount #ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #ffxiv oc #ff14 #final fantasy 14 #lalafell #ffxiv lalafell #ffxiv wol #ffxiv gpose #ffxiv screenshots #ff14 ffxiv

[a-book-of-creatures]

does the term wyvern ever show up outside if heraldry? Got in a silly argument about whether wyverns are dragons and the other person is adamant that wyverns are mundane animals while term dragon exclusively denotes demonic creatures which is a version of the Wyverns Are Not Dragons argument I've never hear before and really doesn't sound right to me, but you always have some really cool information I never knew so I figured Id ask

The thing with wyvern is that it's not directly connected to any mythological concepts. The word and its many relatives and derivatives - including the Welsh gwiber and the French vouivre - literally means "viper".

So you can find references using similar words... but they refer to dragons, serpents, vipers and their derivatives. Until heraldry took the term to mean a two legged dragon in the 1600s at the latest, it was synonymous with dragon or serpent (those are the same thing). The Sockburn Dragon, for instance, is referred to as a "monstrous and poysonous vermine or wyverne, and aske or werme".

In general, I go by what the text calls it. Doesn't matter how many legs it has or if it has wings or not, if the text calls it by a name then that's what it is.

Unfortunately a lot of modern retellings decide that, if a dragon is depicted with two legs, it has to be referred to as a wyvern, even though the original text uses dragon or worm or whatever term.

So is there something textually referred to as a wyvern? I used to think that the classic wyvern story was that of the wyvern of Coed-y-Moch or Llyn Cynwch in Wales.

(Illustration from Wonder Tales of Ancient Wales (1922))

(Cigarette card art (1936) from here)

But the original wasn't referred to as a wyvern! The English translation is wyvern, but the original Welsh refers to a gwiber!

So is this a reference to a wyvern? Are gwibers wyverns? Depends. Are guivres, wivres, and vouivres wyverns? Where do you want to draw the line? Some of these have a more developed folklore than the wyvern. You could take every reference to vipers and run with it, or you could count each variation as its own thing.

Incidentally, the name of the venomous weever fish is derived from the same viperw origin! And most of its names are dragony. There's E. vipera, T. draco, in English it's weever, in French it's vive, in Greek it's drakaina!

Venomous wyvern fish!

So in short: wyvern is more or less synonymous with serpent/dragon/viper, and only really became distinct when heraldry took it.

Even shorter answer: your friend's wrong, wyverns are dragony as fuck.

#wyverns #gwibers #vipers #vouivres #dragons #serpents #worms #etymology #weever #I really wish I could read Welsh #There's like so many gwiber stories and I can read none of them without Google Translate #And that has its own problems :/

[draconesmundi]

Amphitheres

Cuélebre, jaculus and gwiber, the three amphitheres or 'winged serpents' in Dracones Mundi, rough sketch to work out anatomy.

The cuélebre is the largest species of amphithere, from Spain, the jaculus is from north Africa and the gwiber is the smallest amphithere, from Wales :3

#Dracones Mundi #Amphithere #Amphitheres #Cuélebre #Cuélebres #Gwiber #Gwiberod #Jaculus #Jaculi

[wystaria-garden]

Close your eyes and look around No one can find you here

#mypic #myedit #ff14 #ffxiv #final fantasy #final fantasy 14 #final fantasy xiv #lalafell #gpose #spoilers #tw spoilers #endwalker #endwalker spoilers #shadow gwiber

[elliewiltarwyn]

Top 5 Mounts! I love seeing which mounts people are drawn too!

ohhh, that's not something I think about often, and I'm lucky enough to have acquired a hefty number of rare ones, so this is going to be fun and sentimental! and maybe a little humblebraggy im sorry im not trying to be! :D

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Eden

like many players I'm sure, Shadowbringers was when the game really for good hooked me for life, and Ryne is a significant part of that. I loved her character so much that I was overjoyed when I realized the raid series was not only going to expand on her as a character, but give her a girlfriend.

But that's not the only reason; Eden's Promise is also the tier my static formed and we began to take on savage raids, and one of my greatest memories of this game is defeating the final E12S boss alongside them like 0.7 seconds before she enraged. The Oracle of Darkness is still one of my favorite fights in the whole game, and between that, the fact that the whole raid storyline is a handwrapped gift for lesbians who have Ryne as their favorite character, and a personal fondness for FF8 YEAH THAT'S RIGHT I SAID IT SUCK IT GAMEFAQS BOARDS FROM 1998...well, getting to ride Actually Eden in this game kind of rules.

I do wish it played The Extreme though. :V

2. Sunforged

Meanwhile, Abyssos was extremely memorable for, unfortunately, much different reasons. A lot of our group started facing a lot of personal problems IRL, and we had to say goodbye to some very good friends we had made and then bring new ones up to speed on the tier, so it took us an immensely long time to make it all the way to P8S, prog both phases of the fight, and get eight clears for all of us; we were struggling so much that even when the tier unlocked, we weren't able to clear him more than once a week. I still think P8S is too rough around the edges and I like the fight a lot less than the other Pandaemonium finales - not necessarily poorly designed, but extremely demanding to the point it was actually taking a toll on us.

...So basically, to me the Sunforged represents us dragging our broken, battered bodies over the finish line of the raid tier, succeeding despite all the shit both it and real life threw at us. We fought really fuckin' hard for this fucker, and as difficult as it was I'm really, immensely proud of us for managing it.

Also the mount itself is just sick af. Big fire snek!

and it turns into a godsdamned phoenix for flight, come on!!

3. Garlond GL-II

i mean come on this thing was built for biker girl femroes!!

4. Megaloambystoma

I am BEYOND LIVID that the Axolotl mount is locked behind Savage. Savage is for neckbeard no-lifers who play this game 24/7. Give them a crappy Magitek mount or something but cute mounts do NOT belong to raiders!!!

okay but seriously look at this dope. what a good boy. and in addition to being cute AF he ALSO has a sentimental story about my static's experiences with the relevant raid tier: for some strange reason, for the last bits of phase 1 and all of phase 2 of P12S in particular, I was the one who ended up studying the fight, writing down explanations, walking the group through the mechanics, and making callouts. it'd be a little aggrandizing to claim that Pallas Athena is my victory because obviously it's the whole group's... but it is the fight that somehow made me the one confident enough to lead my friends through it.

So in a weird way, this little dope is like, a representation of my self-esteem. I love him.

5. Fat Cat

I'm a cat person. I was morally obligated to buy this. Pay no attention to the mount description that posits that it is either a VOIDSENT using a BLOATED CAT'S CORPSE AS ITS CORPOREAL VESSEL, or a DECEASED PET REANIMATED by one well versed in the NECROMANTIC ARTS. these are lies and slander. look at this :3 face. is this the face of someone who would hide their true insidious voidtinged nature? clearly not. stop worrying about it. you don't need to sleep with a knife under your pillow with this baby around. >:3

this was really fun to reminisce and write about, thank you @disciple-of-frost for the ask!!

#ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #femroe #wol questions #ask games #ffxiv mounts #ffxiv raiding #there are so many good mounts that deserve honorable mentions but it was shockingly easy to narrow down top 5 at least lol #honorable mentions include: pod 602 because i love nier; battle panther which was my first tank achievement mount; #rolling tankard because it comes with a laser button; lunar kamuy because wayward daughter is AMAZING; fae gwiber bc trans rights dragon; #demi-ozma bc i like orb and cube; amaro because Seto still makes me cry; miw miisv bc it's just so out there and hilarious #there's a lot of good stuff! and i don't want to think about how long i've spent collecting all these rare ones! :') #long post #just in case

[dated-radz-at-han-coin]

Joined a lil Ruby Weapon farm party and got me my second gwiber.

#ffxiv #ffxiv screenshots #mounts #gwiber #ruby gwiber

[thebmatt]

After weeks of hopping into Castrum Marinum party finder groups.....I finally won an Emerald Gwiber

Which, if you happened to keep up with this journey of mine....means that I now have all the Gwibers.

And thus a dream of mine has finally been realized, and I am a very happy Bmatt

#Final Fantasy XIV #Gwiber farmin #It's over it's finally over #And now I shall never use any mount but the Mecha-Dragon ever again

[gwalafell]

got a mount i've been wanting for a while now! 🐲✨

#gpose #gposers #final fantasy xiv #final fantasy 14 #final fantasy xiv online #final fantasy 14 online #ffxiv online #ff14 online #ffxiv #ff14 #lalafell #dunesfolk #fae gwiber #gwagwa gwa