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BYREGOT | RHALGR
AZEYMA | NALD'THAL
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^ full of plague and rot and other lovely things
(commission for @naldthal-thetraders!)
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asked for some characters to draw and we got a healthy XIV and OP mix :)
it was a lot of fun trying clip to paint, just testing out things and having a bit more of freedom to paint around
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What did the Twelve actually... do?
WARNING: All kinds of FFXIV spoilers here. If you're not caught up with the EW MSQ and the level 90 Alliance Raids, this post will be discussing things you haven't encountered in game yet.
Ok. So. The Twelve. They tell us that they have laws about revealing themselves to mortals, and that they don't respond to mortal prayers, but that they do receive and are greatly empowered by aether transmitted via those prayers. They have large, sophisticated, private spiritual domains in the form of their respective Heavens, which are full of Created Servants of substantial power. They had some kind of nebulously-defined duties, and now that they are ready to return to the lifestream they have made the machine at the heart of the Omphalos to automate those duties, which will be fueled by redirecting the prayers that used to go to them individually to flow to the device instead.
But what were those duties?
They didn't interfere in the affairs of mortals. Nald'thal had no particular problem with their church becoming a deeply corrupt for-profit institution. Rhalgr didn't do anything to prevent the people of Ala Mhigo being conquered, or the Monks who were the core of his priesthood being eradicated almost to the last man. Nymeia's people were transformed into monsters with no indication that she was even aware, and she wasn't involved when Mad King Theodoric went to war with his own people in her name either. Halone was completely hands-off while her church waged a thousand years of pointless war, beginning and ending with the deaths of two of the offspring of one of Hydaelyn's most potent allies. Nophica watched passively as her beloved Elementals literally instigated a whole Umbral Calamity.
So long as the worship kept flowing in, apparently they did not give a single shit collectively or individually about the fates or dispositions of the actual worshipers.
So. What were they doing with all the essence from those prayers? What purpose was served by their respective Heavens, and the servants that filled them?
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