#gnath

[afancyartblerg]

Support me on Patreon / Adoptable Patreon / Ko-Fi / Store / Commission me! / Adoptables / YCHs sometimes the whims of my soul compel me to shitpost, sometimes it's offhand comments in this case i showed up in an ohthatnk stream, and Needed to give this life after hearing her joke that the mustache made the gnath elder yet another white-haired prettyboy to add to the cast two versions, since i couldn't decide which was funnier

#digital art #sketch #fanart #gnath elder #final fantasy #gnath #ff14 #final fantasy 14 #final fantasy xiv

[kicktwine]

give him one of these bad boys

#I need him to stop overthinking his little brain cage is going to start smoking #sit down read some eyewitness #my art #ffxiv #In reality he would be more entertained by the biggest driest tome on history or somesuch #No I promise I’m interested in gnath anthropology. keep talking. ysayle is interested too right ysayle #sorry for not drawing estinien he’s a mean girl. he’s CATTY! he was mean to vidofnir #play game

[axolotlelle]

behold: trist's parents who I made way too hot for no reason

#he's a cook and she's more of a gleaner/handywoman type #they meet in sharlyan before the colony is abandonned and that's where trist is born #they decided to move back to the twelveswood to be closer to family (because there's no going back to the golmore jungle) #but they tragically get killed in a gnath ambush on the way

[krahka]

14, 19, 26 and one of your choice from the character ask prompt!

14: What hobbies does your Tav have?

Back in Limbo, Gnathe liked to make things that were outside their duties as an anarch. Toys for children, tiny models of buildings and creatures, sculptures of the people they cared for, that sort of thing. On the material plane, matter isn’t as responsive, and for a while they thought they couldn’t shape it at all. They’ve figured out something like it though, carving, painting, smithing. Shaping with their hands instead of their mind. The disconnect from their materials is unpleasant, but it forces them to look at things differently. Limits can keep you fresh, keep you from becoming complacent.

Zirseth likes looking out at the sky, tracking the clouds, keeping an obsessive eye on the weather. He finds both the unpredictability and the inevitability comforting. This is part of his devotions to Talos, so not exactly a hobby, but aside from all the murder, Talos is all he’s got.

19: How do you think they'll meet their end?

Gnathe’s post-game goal is to figure out what Orpheus does that disrupts the illithid hive mind, harness it for themself and use it to free every last mind flayer in the multiverse from the elder brains’ control, and basically be to them what Gith was to the People. I can see a lot of people wanting to kill them once they knew of this plan (maybe even Orpheus, lol), and a whole lot more wanting to kill them once they actually start doing it.

Zirseth would like to die by a thousand lightning bolts. Kneeling in a burning building, thanking Talos with his few remaining breaths as he asphyxiates in the smoke. Nothing would make him happier than to stand outside in a tornado as the winds flay the skin from his unworthy flesh. What Zirseth wants doesn’t matter; it never has.

26: What animal best represents your Tav?

Gnathe is an octopus. Constantly shifting, moving, planning, squeezing through the smallest holes imaginable to escape to freedom.

For Zirseth, I think a Pallas cat? He's a poor little meow meow, but also he’s always thinking about arson.

28: Is your character the de facto leader of the party? Or do they consider someone else to be the leader?

Gnathe is incredibly stubborn. Once they’ve picked a course of action, they will pursue it without doubt or hesitation. If you want to complain, that’s nice, but it’s not going to change their mind. Best you can hope for is that they trust you enough to take advice sometimes.

Zirseth does not consider himself in charge, like, in a cosmic sense, but also, anyone trying to keep him under control or direct him on any particular path is going to find it extremely difficult. Even if the plan is “kill them all,” he might end up including you in the “all” plan, and it won’t be something he can tell you about ahead of time. He gets to be the leader entirely because everyone else is afraid of him, not because he wants to be or has anything resembling good ideas.

#replies #egg-witch #bg3 spoilers #oc: gnathe #oc: zirseth salothan #suicidal ideation tw

[impossible-rat-babies]

me having done all the beast tribes in the game like well now what

#i have enjoyed them and i have hated them #mostly sea of clouds fuck the sea of clouds for traveling around #doing the HW beast tribes really puts in into perspective how much traveling in the areas isn't fun #after the first time you do it #owen plays ffxiv #but i love them dearly ;--; #the gnath story is so special to me its up there in the favorites

[picaroroboto]

one of my favorite WoL Moments is still this dialogue choice in Heavensward:

Context is that during the HW roadtrip, the party gets caught in this Catch-22 where the dragons won't let us pass through unless we get the Gnath to stop bugging (lol) them, but the Gnath have summoned Ravana. It seems obvious that the WoL needs to kill Ravana in order for anything to progress, but Alphinaud asks to make sure they're willing first.

There's a lot you can dig up in this seemingly simple interaction - first, Alphinaud's side of things: during late-ARR and it's post-patches, there's a lot of evidence to be found that shows he treats the WoL like a bodyguard, like a weapon, taking their strength for granted for his political ends while giving little, if any, thought to their own thoughts and feelings. It's not outright malicious manipulation, just a sort of blindness. Since the betrayal at the banquet he's been humbled, and grown closer to the WoL thanks to their continued support of him despite the fact that his vanity caused the disaster. Him asking the WoL is they're okay with fighting Ravana, even though it's a given that they have to, can be seen as him not wanting to repeat the same pattern of using them.

For the WoL, the "choice" seems obvious - kill the Primal. Their first Primal battle, Ifrit, was a fight for survival brought on by a twist of fate. Every one since then has been an active pursuit by choice - if you can even call it a choice when they're the only one who can do it and many people would die if they didn't. By HW they're already firmly locked in to their role of being the guy who kills Primals, and whether they like it or not they continue to choose to fight. By choosing the upper line here they confirm that, while also giving some cool and heroic bravado to reassure Alphinaud. But notably it's just to say that they don't fear their duty. They may hate it, regret the choices that lead them here, all manner of things, but they are not afraid of fighting Primals.

Or they could simply say nothing. Giving silence also recognizes that their choice doesn't really matter and they're going to have to fight anyways. When it comes to silent protagonist-type characters who have few dialogue options, every option they're given has all the more weight. There are cases where choosing to say three ellipses "..." says a thousand things more than not being given a dialogue choice at all, and this is one of them. It's as if the two choices here are actually "Be the Hero" or "Be the Hero (not happy about it)".

#ff14 #ffxiv #wol #warrior of light #ffxiv meta #alphinaud leveilleur #heavensward spoilers #meta posting on my art blog

[venx-art]

Lord of the Gnath

#Final Fantasy #Final Fantasy XIV #final fantasy xiv heavensward #ffxiv #ffxiv art #ffxiv fanart #ravana final fantasy xiv #artists on tumblr #art #pinup #monster #venx art

[noosphe-re]

*gno-

*gnō-, Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to know."

It forms all or part of: acknowledge; acquaint; agnostic; anagnorisis; astrognosy; can (v.1) "have power to, be able;" cognition; cognizance; con (n.2) "study;" connoisseur; could; couth; cunning; diagnosis; ennoble; gnome; (n.2) "short, pithy statement of general truth;" gnomic; gnomon; gnosis; gnostic; Gnostic; ignoble; ignorant; ignore; incognito; ken (n.1) "cognizance, intellectual view;" kenning; kith; know; knowledge; narrate; narration; nobility; noble; notice; notify; notion; notorious; physiognomy; prognosis; quaint; recognize; reconnaissance; reconnoiter; uncouth; Zend.

It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit jna- "know;" Avestan zainti- "knowledge," Old Persian xšnasatiy "he shall know;" Old Church Slavonic znati "recognizes," Russian znat "to know;" Latin gnoscere "get to know," nobilis "known, famous, noble;" Greek gignōskein "to know," gnōtos "known," gnōsis "knowledge, inquiry;" Old Irish gnath "known;" German kennen "to know," Gothic kannjan "to make known."

—Etymonline

#etymology #knowing #knowledge #know #language #linguistics #Proto-Indo-European #Sanskrit #Persian #Latin #Greek #Irish #German #quote #gnosis

[before-calamity]

Gnath Using Cut Weapon Model

On my main while waiting for Dawntrail to come out, I've been going through and unlocking and working on old beast tribe quests.

Imagine my surprise when I saw that the Nameless One uses the cut arcanist weapon from 1.0!

It's kind of cool that they reused the model, honestly, it sort of works for the Gnath culture.

#final fantasy 14 1.0 #ff14 #ffxiv #final fantasy xiv 1.0 #ffxiv 1.0 #ffxiv 1.0 arcanist

[candycryptids]

🦇 biggest material fear (ie heights, bugs etc)

Hiii omg sorry this like, the next evening I conked out @u@

So! This is such an interesting question I’ve never actually thought about it before 🫢 (how exciting)

Chuu has a fear of pits where you can’t see the bottom, and quicksand. Not that quicksand is often actually a danger in day-to-day life, but the idea of being sucked under and- dying, essentially. Surprisingly ok with deep water and heights, though.

Tuesdays fear is deep water, because… he can’t really, ah, swim. He sinks, like a stone. And he’s not so much afraid as he is creeped out by things that are not human but DO have human-like faces. Like [Deidar] or the [Fishman] from Windwaker (worse, if they don’t behave in a human fashion, or they come close but it’s Wrong)

Mochiie has a fear of bug stings/bites- he’s not allergic, but he knows enough about toxins to be alarmed if he doesn’t know what just got him. 🫢 yet he’ll still handle bugs, just… cautiously.

Tangy is afraid of Magitek War Machina. Over time she gets to the point where she doesn’t seize up at the clunk of their heavy mechanical legs or the whirr of their engines, but it still sets her fur on end. Going to Chuu’s workshop is an overwhelming hellscape (so it’s good their meetings were in a quieter part of the FC house…)

Colette claims she’s not afraid of anything. Not a damn thing. She’s very freaked out by spiders, though, in a ‘set the whole house on fire’ kinda way. Someone else has to safely remove the poor creature before she DOES accidentally burn the house down casting Flare. She’s been getting better, but it’s down to a very rapid exit of the room no matter the case. [Belladonna] in Saint Mocianes Arboretum was a nightmare- but at least she was allowed to blast it to pieces.

Ishi’li … mm.. They’re tough. Before Eorzea he was afraid of cockroaches? Freaked out by the sensation of bugs crawling on him too. But after being in Eorzea and camping a bunch and getting slimed/torched/waterboarded/blown about/All the other crazy shit that happens to the poor WoL in battle… cockroaches don’t seem so scary anymore? The Gnath are literally giant talking bugs… I think they’re afraid of real deep water though. Like where you can’t see the bottom? It’s hard to say he’s afraid of Krakens but I think he might be a little bit.

Levraut is freeze-sometimes-faint afraid of Dragons. If it’s anything bigger than a Chocobo his knees are rattlin’. He tries to put on a real brave face about it, but…. It’s a hard hurdle to cope with. Their teeth, the vaguely sulfuric hint to their breath, the piercing eyes, the ripping talons…. Yeah, he just can’t. Au’ra are fine, after he’s met a handful. But the first one… 🫢 they had to get him smelling salts.

#gnawing on this ask like a bone #fears is such a good one I hadn’t thought about em before #except Lev. who I knew when I started. lol. #and Tuesday kinda ! but I had to give it serious thought to see if there was anything else bdbdnrfjs #ffxiv Chuu #ffxiv Tuesday #ffxiv Tangy #ffxiv Levraut #ffxiv Mochiie #ffxiv Colette #ffxiv Ishi’li #I almost forgot Ishi again it was super embarrassing 4 me

[yamisnuffles]

Writing Pattern Tag Game

Rules: List the first line of your last 10 posted fics and see if there's a pattern! (I’d take it literally and just do the first sentence but if I feel like it works better with the first two sentences, that’s what you’ll get lol)

Tagged by @mizgirl100880 and seemed fun (I've been sick so this is late)

In The Beginning: There once was an angel who didn’t Fall. 

Off My Head And Onto Yours: Aziraphale wasn’t sure what made him do it.

Lean Your Weight To Me: Edinburgh had been a dizzying affair. 

And You're To Blame: “Ready!” Crowley didn’t think he’d ever been less ready to do anything in his long life. 

For Want of Words: It wasn’t that Crowley didn’t like Muriel.

All Good Things: It would be easy to assume that little could change for two immortals in a few short years, especially when compared to the thousands that they had been together.

Too Much of a Good Thing: Before the beginning, Crowley’s heart had encompassed the whole of creation.

Starshower: With life came death.

Dragoonsong: By the time Ravana was brought to heel and the Gnath problem solved, the day was on its final legs.

The Heat of Battle: The air smelled of death and ceruleum, of burning metal and flesh. 

I don't know what I've learned lol. I guess I tend toward being relatively succinct in my opening sentences (with some exceptions). Something quick that sets the tone/setting and, with GO, usually I try to set up whether it's Crowley or Aziraphale's POV right away. If not in the first sentence, it was usually there in the second.

Uuuuuh, still sick and brain bad, so idk who to tag. @feralkwe and @icescrabblerjerky and anyone else who might wanna

#ask memes #about me #my writing

[krahka]

kicking my feet in the air with an enormous owo 23 24 29 one of those d20s rolled like shit on all three rolls anyway tell me about gnathe

What are your Character's thoughts on the dream visitor?

Bad! Don’t trust! There are only two beings of sufficient psionic power to grant visions over the multiverse that Gnathe trusts, and that’s neither Zerthimon nor Menyar-Ag, and no matter how much this gith mystic in the Astral Sea seems to be trying to play on that trust, she’s definitely not them. They would never ask anyone to betray themselves by drawing on the power of the illithids. If they would, Gnathe would renounce them in an instant.

She said that they needed that power to save Toril. Well, in that case, let this plane burn. Whatever fate she's trying to get them to avoid, it's a kinder one than the fate they'd grant these people as a ghaik.

Was your illithid tadpole empowered by anything in Act 1? If so, how does your Character feel about that?

I guess the part where every time they try and get it out, it worms further in might count as making it more powerful, or at least, get it stuck in there further, and Gnathe took literally every opportunity offered to get it out. At least every opportunity, except with Priestess Gut. She was talking about how the parasites are a gift from her goddess, who speaks to her through them, but yeah, sure, drink this potion! It’s definitely not poison, and this is definitely not an illithid cult!

Even past trying everything they can to get rid of the parasite, Gnathe has also been destroying every single tadpole they come across. Fuck you, Dream Visitor!

It’s also a lesser, unintentional fuck you to Astorian, who is not impressed by their hypocrisy. They've made it clear that every path of power is acceptable when it comes to fighting the mind flayers, who haven’t held any power over the gith for generations, but when it comes to fighting Cazador, who has very directly been personally enslaving him for centuries, now there’s a line? Fuck you.

Did you adopt an owlbear? Do you have a name for your child?

Yes! Gnathe rescued him from the goblins who were chasing him around with the usual method they handled problems in the goblin camp, namely, by pretending to be in charge. The cub ran away, and they were content to let him go, but he came back to their camp because he had nowhere else to go, and their disguise self spell didn’t hide their smell. (Given that I’ve had multiple companions mention how their smell turns them on, I can only imagine what it is.) They fed him, over Lae’zel’s objections, and now he’s allowed to stay with them for as long as he likes.

They haven’t given him a name. He can choose one for himself, if he likes.

#replies #amgeforns #oc: gnathe #bg3 spoilers

[transjinako]

why do the gnath get the coolest primal to worship 

[shizucheese]

So in order for us to gain access to Sohm Al, we need to do a little pest control. So what's the deal with the Gnath and Ravana? (AKA: We're likely doing Ravana at min ilv tonight folks! Keep an eye out in Aether's PF for Shizune Dazkar if you want in on the fun!) Catch me on Twitch every Sunday starting at 4:30 Central and every Tuesday and Thursday starting at 7:30 Central! Miss a stream? Find my VoDs on YouTube!

#final fantasy xiv #ffxiv #final fantasy 14 #ff14 #final fantasy streamer #vtuber #ffxiv heavensward

[blairstales]

Dàir na Coille – The imbuement of the woods – New Years Day

“Dàir na Coille celebrates the arrival of blessings, life-forces, and spirits, brought on the West Wind and nestled in the trees until each new blessing and new life, and new spirit emerges in due course in the months ahead. On New Year’s Day, the head of the household would go out and get a small twig from a fruit-bearing tree and bring it into the house saying “Fas is gnaths is toradh”, meaning ‘Growth, tradition, and abundance’, so that his family could share in the blessing of the new emerging life. As far as I know, this is all that remains of this custom. We are not told where the blessings and spirits come from exactly, or who sends them, however, we can interpret the symbolism that is still present in this simple custom.

The new spirits are brought in on the West Wind, which, apart from being wonderfully animistic, says something important. The wind is a vehicle for vitality; we affirm this fact with every breath we take, but the West, the direction of sunset, death, and the ancestors, is a direction of endings. So these newly arriving spirits come from the place unto which departing spirits go. The spirits are not just coming, the spirits are returning! Renewed!

Michael Newton suggests in his handbook of the Scottish Gaelic World that the individual trees imbued in Dair na Coille are a source of life, much as the Tree of Life is the ultimate source of life.”

#dair na coille #new year #scottish customs #scottish new year #scottish folkore #scottishfolklore #mythology #Scottish animism #animism #scottishpaganism #paganism

[ainyan]

Summary: The Gnath have summoned Ravana once more, and Kal'istae Miurani and her fellow Scions hurry to Thok ast Thok to deal with the resurgence of the insectoid primal. They arrive only to watch Ravana die and to meet the Warriors who felled him. The meeting turns ugly when the other primal-slayers attack unexpectedly, but the Scions are aided by the arrival of an unexpected but welcome ally.

#ffxiv #kal'istae miurani #thancred waters #ardbert #patch 3.1 #post-heavensward #au: woven souls #ao3