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FFXIV players who want their WoL to kill the Elementals: "My WoL would be applauded for freeing the Shroud of their evil and their death will fix Gridania's shortcomings, prejudices, and xenophobia."

The actual likely consequences of that scenario:

#reblog for reference #leatherworker quest 68-70 #Princess Mononoke forest spirit #Proto dryads

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... Holy crap

At one point I speculated that Fandaniel's throwaway comment about Zenos being a case where Emet-Selch "finally succeeded" was about Zenos' corporeal aether being as dense as an Ancients'. Not his soul, but his body at least being 2x as dense as the average Source inhabitant (and 14x as anyone from a Shard).

One of the big reasons for the Sundering was that extremely aether-dense people can't interact directly with Dynamis. You can hear Meteion bc your aether is so thin. People turn into monsters bc Dynamis overwhelms and consumes their Aether.

What if Zenos cannot directly interact with Dynamis. At all.

What if THAT'S why everything seems dull and boring to him? There's a whole spectrum of emotion & feeling that he straight up can't feel because his booty too fat his corporeal aether is too thick. But he's still a sundered soul, so part of him still needs Dynamis to feel connected to other people (unlike the Ancients who seem fine?). But his corporeal aether blocks it. The same way that Zodiark's shield kept us from hearing the Endsinger for all those centuries (& by extension the whole universe really), Zenos' thicc aether literally prevents him from feeling connection to others.

This explains why he so easily no-sold the WoL. In addition to supernaturally thick aether, he's also mostly immune to our Power of Friendship crap.

... Mostly.

Because obviously the Ancients still weren't immune to the Endsinger, her effect was just different. They didn't turn into monsters, but their imaginations turned on them, causing their creation magic to manifest ravenous nightmares. In the same way, some part of the WoL's Dynamis was so potent that it broke through. And that's why he became so completely addicted to us. We're literally the only person with powerful enough Dynamis that he can feel any connection at all.

#reblog for reference #that whole Zenos choosing certain type of weapons because he can't access the non physical side of weapons #Zenos is limited to certain classes? #Garlean and weapons #Cleaning up Emet's mess #FFXIV

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cid

#A Cid was here #other people's art #FFXIV

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There was that bit in ARR where you return from a quest, the scions had prepared a feast for you but then ate it all before you could arrive, right? I cant for the life of me remember WHEN/which quest that happened in and I'd appreciate your help in reminding me.

I can no longer find part of it either; it seems Garland Tools has cleared out a lot of incidental/side dialogue, nor did the FFXIV Game Script seem to capture it.

I know there was a "WoL's mindset in ARR patches" post recently mentioning it in a reblog comment, and I do think the analysis has merit with the lore backing mentioned, but to call it a "prepared feast the Scions ate without WoL" or that "everyone else was more important" (as the reblog addition puts it) is honestly, I feel, a gross overstatement of what happens in optional dialogue between quests.

In very old screenshots, as WoL returns to the Rising Stones, I found a line where F'lhaminn apologizes to WoL as she thought she made enough food for everyone, but everyone else coming in from their own adventures and assignments were also really hungry.

There's the dialogue with Nanamo praying just before this in the screenshot log, so I want to say it's right after "Let Us Cling Together" when Eline Roaille escaped and then had to be recaptured in a solo instance, while the other Scions are investigating the ways to make white auracite work to defeat the Ascians. WoL hasn't even been in Mor Dhona for a bit (a day or several, depending how one decides to run one's timelines and teleporting travel), but in Thanalan dealing with Roaille's escape.

So it's really just a case of the folks in the kitchen not having enough meals readily on hand, and F'lhaminn kinda feels bad about it as 1) it's her entire self-determined job and 2) IIRC, she did mention something about having a meal ready for WoL when they got home, but by the time the quest is over, it's clear she underestimated.

Also, after the quest shifts to the next one ("Good Intentions"), talking to Tataru has her say this:

So it's not that the Scions are being intentional jerks to the WoL--it was entirely an aside in optional click dialogue, and mostly an honest mistake (and perhaps meant to be a bit comedic, but falls somewhat flat) of kitchen staff underestimating their adventurer colleagues' appetites and not preparing enough.

#reblog for reference #Post ARR stuff builds realtionship with WoL. Flavour text be like fleeting moments #FFXIV #F'lhaminn still owes Hylnyan a meal

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The Traveller - Default look (Ranger /Warden of a much larger territory).

Oni of Light ( Kidomaru / Greatclub GNB or DRK) - Light armour look(A), background and feats partially conflated with Othardian folklore by the Doman kids.

War Bard - Light armour look(B), The Green Lady/Huntress of Camp Dragonhead. (Blame Fortemps men, Bard boys and Camp Dragonhead folks for tales on this one). The Herald

Toadeyes Tinkerer and needleworking Artisan - Come visit Hylnyan's little collab business in Ishgard.

Uplander go fishing and seek rocks and greens - Psshkooor.... Gobbie hat keep furry ears warm.

Inspector Extraordinaire’s Assistant no.2

4/23/24

What are some of your wol(oc)'s main outfits/glams?

#wolqotd #glamour is the endgame #oni of light #Tracking Hylnyan #All your fashion sense is belong to Demon Tabard of Aiming #Green lady of Camp Dragonhead #Green Huntress of Camp Dragonhead

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I am sorry I never had the time to properly explore the Churning Mists.

I never knew there was a statue here.

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Wha? And to think I thought House Dzemael somehow hate my guts. Well yeah then again House Dzemael's artisans were in the Firmament's FETEs. Had so much trouble gone on with them that I can't think of them as anything but trouble?

hmmm... something missing? Eh will check it out after I get a few more medals

#Post EW Follow up quests #Tribal Quests #Tracking Hylnyan #book 6 - endwalker

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Pray return to the farming sands

Central Gridania gotten too crowded. Pray to return the Waking Sands as Rogue.

The other person farming this map in the morning doesn't return to the Waking Sands part of the map it seems.

Simple and pretty

Okay to Stormblood for Lord Enma. Then call it a day.

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Bonus - WHAT?!?!?!?! Guy left before I can examine his nameplate

#Yokai watch X FFXIV collab #Tracking Hylnyan

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the thing is. ryne was not suicide ideating because thancred was a bad guardian to her. that was a mindset she had literally as long as she can remember, one that was beaten into her by ran'jit and vauthry telling her that she would be better off dead. thancred (due to his trauma + emotional constipation + daughter-based trolley problem) does not manage to heal this mindset in her by the time we meet them in 5.0 (to be frank this would be an uphill battle for most caretakers, even ones who don't have the shortcomings thancred has), but what does allow her to stand up to ran'jit is the freedom thancred provided her. she isn't sure if she deserves to live, but she wants to live in the world that she has traveled in. she doesn't want to be put back in that cell. she doesn't know if she's perfect, if she's the "best" minfilia, but she wants to see the world and live as part of it, even if it's scary, even if she hates herself and thinks she's worthless. she wants to see the sky and the trees and to help the people she loves. certain parts of ryne's arc hit me really hard (as someone who was a suicide-ideating teenage girl, and is nowno longer a teenage girl) and this sort of... "incomplete" personal resolution works for me. she managed to scrape out the smallest handhold of wanting to live, but it's enough. it's enough to keep her from giving up on her life. the smallest handhold is enough to hold onto, always. that's the miracle. "to live is to suffer", to quote hydaelyn, but "wanting to see what tomorrow will bring," to quote gaia, is enough. the vast majority of people who attempt regret it, and are glad they failed/didn't go through. you don't need to be convinced your life has worth in order to keep living. this got off-track and a bit personal hahaha, but she's my daughtermelon and her story hits hard. im glad she's happy and thriving, and so is thancred (another person who hates themself and wants to die but refuses to do anything but survive), and so is ryne.

#reblog for reference #papa can't preach or he be ranjit #a job replacement not a replacement goldfish #Thancred #Ryne

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One thing that really gets me about Urianger comforting Minfilia in Amh Araeng is that when she says Thancred hates her, Urianger never actually says, no, he doesn't. He says instead, none of this is your fault, and the original Minfilia wouldn't hold anything against you, and in typical Urianger form he says some things about fate and faith, and his words are kind and beautiful--but he also completely sidesteps the question of how Thancred feels about her.

And I think this moment is very reflective of Urianger's relationship to Thancred and child!Minfilia as a whole. It reflects what we see when we first see all of them together in Il Mheg.

Urianger knows that the way Thancred behaves toward the girl is hurting her. He's spent enough time around the two of them to see that plainly. Theoretically, he could say something to Thancred about it; they're obviously close friends, and if Thancred was going to value anyone's opinion, it would be his. But he doesn't say anything, because he still feels guilty and responsible for all of it: about their Minfilia going to the First and what happened to her there, and thus for what both Thancred and child!Minfilia are going through now. Even though Thancred has never outright blamed him for it (however he may feel privately, which I think is hard to say), it seems like Urianger still feels like he has no right to say anything.

So he tries to compensate instead. He's kind to Minfilia, connects with her in his own way and gives her books, and by the time we see them together he's obviously become something of a familial figure to her. I would say that he and Thancred aren't so much raising her together as they're doing it... around one another. Thancred is gruff and cold and holds Minfilia at arm's length emotionally so that his protectiveness comes off harshly even when it's well-meant, and Urianger dotes on her and tries to make up for it all while avoiding the actual problem.

So that conversation in Amh Araeng is both touching and maddening to me, and it really drives home what's maddening about it when, upon overhearing it, the Warrior of Light turns to Thancred to ask him if he has anything to say to Minfilia--who has just said, out loud, that she thinks Thancred wishes she was dead--and Thancred just says, "Not today."

And so they both go on avoiding the actual problem, for just a little longer.

#reblog for reference #papa can't preach or he be ranjit #stuck between a rock and hard place #fear that his words would condemn Minfilia or a kid #The choice has to be her own #a job replacement not a replacement goldfish #What and how did Ranjit deal with his line of Oracle girls then? How close were the adult Scions on the brink on Ranjit's path #FFXIV #Thancred #Ryne #minfilia #Oracle of Light

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Digivolution

The risk of being summoner when one starts channeling summoners from other shards / past lives... Wait... Does having cleared Coils affect the Summoning?

Bahamutdramon!! I summon you~~~ GACHA!!!!!!!! Only because this happened on Yokai watch collab week

Granted Digimon, Monster Rancher(Tiger of the wind!!!!) and Pokemon are more like Beast Master.... While Fate's Ritsuka (Shirou, Rin and Co are summoners of spirits using mana to sustain the summon and crystals as initial payment...)

Yeah Digimon with its dragon types and FGO with Fefnir(black - Sieg host) and Albion (white - Melusine subform) . At current point I'm not motivated to unlock BLM (haven't found plot pt to unlock) and AST yet.

Carteneau Flats

-------- The great book club... What is it about the Great Gubal library that attracts Miqo'te? First X'rhun and now Y'mhitra. Would G'raha get a run around in there as well?

Are they all library cats? Mostly neutral about Y'mhitra. so eh.

Bonus - Allagan Master ball this? shouldn't it be Moon size? (Yokai watch event quest scene)

And 2 down. Is rather pretty

#Post EW Follow up quests #the summoning #Yokai watch X FFXIV collab #way too much digimon and fgo later #Tracking Hylnyan #Gudako was here

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this was a part of the endwalker final credits to me

#EW was one big BRD Quest expansion #It was silly going through it as a BRD main thinking where had I seen that before... oh wait.... oh shhh... oh noess.... #Sad blue bird need to meet bard team - BRD party to help sad birb girl with therapy #doing post EW tribal quest the Vanu Vanu talks of feathers of night black made me nervous that EW could had left unfinished business #FFXIV Team Bard #FFXIV #other people's wols #other people's art #Sanson #Guydelot

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Wanna be the biggest dreamer

But I'm not unlocking Astrologian. No card deck to card slash Training summoner muuuuchhhh~~~~~ What in the Allagan Master ball is this? This ain't no digivice.

Soo.... be like corrupted card slash turns Carbunclemon in the Proto-Carbunclemon? Much as I would like to Tailmon, I want that Kyubimon that has nothing to do with Koyanskyayapayaya. Sorry Jibanyan, I'm from the wrong batch of monster tamers.

Renamon is that you? More like a Renamon with Kyubimon's tails. Is pretty

Staff of the Snow Maiden - Blizzaria - North shrd

Irony of wanting a pretty snowflake staff for a class I have yet to unlock. Somehow reminds me of Yuna.

I'll get the rest when SMN makes it there. I still have NIN backing up. Yeah wanting is for glamour reasons mainly. Hylnyan's colours and styles doesn't effectively match these well.

twin tails of flame fox - Kyubi - Central Shrd Cane of Shrine Guardian - Komasan - East Shrd Codex of the Shrine Guardian - Komajiro - - East Shrd Fang of the Fearless Cat - Hovernyan - South shrd Rapier of the Serpent Lord - Lord Ananta - HW Gunblade of the yo-kai king - Lord Enma -SB

#Yokai watch X FFXIV collab #way too much Digimon and FGO later #Tracking Hylnyan #Renamon ja nai Kyubi da!

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I hope she dosen't hates me... Enroute to Bookman's shelves. X12.4, Y22.0

Il Mheg was a trippy experience for BRD. Somewhere along the way I realised ShB Thancred still wears olive green(or whatever shade that) on his person.

#Book 5 - Shadowbringers #Hylnyan Tales #Ryne #Thancred Waters Collection #Thancred #my art #FFXIV fanart #FFXIV #Of Thancred and Ryne #baka kouhai and baka senpai #my wol #peak a peak

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#Uh... Only played tactics.... soooo... Thundergod #most other games were inaccessible because console reasons #FF polls

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Write about your ocs, make art of them, take gposes, do the things you love. Who cares if someone thinks it's cringe? Does creating things make you happy? Then do it and don’t worry about what anyone else thinks.

Put your work out there and even if no one likes it, YOU like it and that's all that matters!! (And let's be honest, this is such a great community with so many great artists and creators, I would be GENUINELY surprised if no one else liked it) I often get inspired to create more art when I see other’s work and I think that’s one of my favorite things about this community.

Keep creating.

#Excuse me while I debrief my brain. Too much stuff stuck in brain after playing need an outlet #It used to be that sewing and doll photography was much faster for debriefing brain on whatever new franchise I latched onto #But building diorama (Island Sanctury and Apartment and house) and complicated outfits(glamours!!) was easier to draw give or take... #And writing stop the annoying words-ideas loop in my head #FFXIV #Yes I owe my minions the simpler outfits

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#Would have thought it be a fight of Cid VII VIII IX X and XIV over who's more distinctive in my head - Ironworks Cid - Thundergod - Kramer #Guess all those Prea runs dates-turned-raids and magitek toys paid off. Slight bias for “current life” #Cid Kramer aka Mr Hideo Shimazu lookalike came close #No Thundergod to challenge Ironworks Cid and i haven't played XVI. Rikku's dad was ok #FF polls

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estinien eats a sandwich

#is queue here #Fun with Estinien #FFXIV #other people's art