#this is a ffxiv post

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

There is nothing that takes the teeth out of existential dread and despair like experiencing unprompted and unexpected camaraderie with strangers

#this is a ffxiv post #i helped a bunch of sprouts clear their first EX and then had a fun chatty time in prae and my heart is full of the light of humanity

[lanaevyssmoved]

the monster hunter vibes from the new zones off the charts

#fray.txt #this is a ffxiv post

[lillyavonlea]

Open emote list

/frighten /dance /dote

#HOW ABOUT THAT NEW TEASER HUH #this is a ffxiv post #ffxiv miqo'te #ffxiv #cosplay #ff14 #ff14 oc #ff14 wol #wol #ffxiv wol #ffxiv cosplay #ff14 cosplay #final fantasy 14 #final fantasy 14 cosplay

[pocketbelt]

they announced one of the main writers for FFXIV: Dawntrail is the one who wrote the Shadowbringers trial series, "Sorrow of Werlyt", and the amount of people going "ew no that's the one that redeems Gaius" drives me kind of insane

That storyline takes Gaius and says "Behold this idiot, watch and be stunned as everything he ever said to anyone turned out to be fucking obviously wrong. Watch as the fascist imperialist philosophy he ingrained into his beloved children makes them run to their deaths, even as he pleads them not to, and they tell him to fuck himself and do it anyway. Marvel as he watches them die by your hand, you, who destroyed Gaius himself at the peak of his life, and he can do nothing to stop it", and that's a redemption arc to people

The only surviving kid only makes it because her brother acts to protect her, she doesn't make it because of any act of Gaius'

The entire story is literally "In case you somehow missed it in ARR and most of Stormblood, everything Gaius believed in was horseshit and there's no such thing as a 'noble general in the evil empire'". All his meritocracy bullshit vanished the second he was gone, no-one but his own children believed it or held onto it, and the empire put someone directly opposed to that belief into his old seat when he vanished. No-one cared, no-one else "believed", the Empire was never about that, it was only propped up in his own singular legion by him being there and the second he was gone the legion dumped it and moved on and only Gaius was too naive and stupid to see it.

I mean for fuck sake, the Empire digs up the chemical gas weapon he explicitly had sealed away and destroyed all record of after he's gone and if it wasn't for a particularly dedicated and enterprising catboy and his comedy crew of hardcore engineers, it would have caused the eighth apocalypse

Even the follow-up in patch 6.4, of the family portrait, isn't some "aw he good now" thing. The family portrait you help organise for him has to have four of its six members be projected onto the scene via a machine's reconstruction of them as normal people because they're dead, they threw their lives away because the ideology Gaius taught them meant they could only think to die fighting and nothing else. That's his loving family portrait: four ghosts stood at his back as his last living child smiles through her pain.

"well the people of Werlyt didn't kill him for conquering them" they let him clean up the mess he made (which meant watching his children be killed) and as "thanks" they're letting him stay there to live out the last third of his life or so attempting to atone by fixing the damage he did.

He's 56 at the time of ARR; the Empire he gave 3-4 decades of his life to is gone, it's a smouldering ruin, all but one of the people he loved is dead, his surviving daughter is scarred by the path he led her down, and what few friends he had are also dead. He learned that his beliefs were all horseshit and pretty much everyone around him except for himself knew it, he must live knowing that those beliefs got his children killed, all that he achieved that he once considered "good" was for nothing, he learned that the cool old emperor he idolised who had no magic but built an empire by pulling up his bootstraps and who told him that magic and gods were bad was actually an ancient incredibly magical sorceror attempting to resurrect his own god.

That's not a redemption arc, he's the most owned man still alive in XIV

#ffxiv #pocket post

[worldformula]

you don’t know what you’re asking for.

#ffxiv #final fantasy 14 #final fantasy xiv #hermes ffxiv #emet selch #fandaniel #ff14 #Finally my last comic of the year #Been obsessed w like 30 different concepts lately so I crammed 5 of them into this cheers #Also to that sweet anon in my ask box I shall post what you seek I prommy ❤️ #This is a long ass post but like look upon my metaphors boy #endwalker spoilers

[rennebright]

マトーヤママ 48 by 梁巨爽 [Twitter/X] ※Illustration shared with permission from the artist. If you like this artwork please support the artist by visiting the source.

#y'shtola rhul #ヤ・シュトラ #final fantasy xiv #ffxiv #club 3 #posted art

[picaroroboto]

Point #1: The first thing we learn about Emet-Selch, even before we learn that Solus zos Galvus is Emet-Selch, is that Solus loved theatre.

Point #2: Emet-Selch plays the villain with mannerisms so over-the-top you'd think he's about to burst into a disney villain-style song and dance number at almost any moment.

Point #3: He's self-aware enough to recognize that he is a villain in your story but a hero to his own people, and that whoever wins the battle will write history to declare the loser the villain.

Point #4: The Tempest, the zone where Amaurot is located, is named for the Shakespeare play of the same name, with other landmarks named after characters from the play. The BGM "Full Fathom Five" is also named for an iconic line.

Point #5: Amaurot feels so empty because it is, in essence, a set for a stage play. After the play is preformed it has no purpose.

Back to Point #1: Emet-Selch really loved theatre.

#whatever else Emet is he was the best damn stage designer in the world #built an entire replica city just for one play seen only by a handful of audience members #ff14 #ffxiv #emet-selch #shadowbringers #shadowbringers spoilers #ffxiv meta #meta posting on my art blog

[birues]

WE FIGHT AS ONE!

#ardbert #ardbert hylfyst #final fantasy 14 #final fantasy xiv #shadowbringers #ffxiv #shadowbringers spoilers #warrior of light #americans are asleep!! quickly!! post ardbert! #jk jk i shall rb this for you americans later #its time for you to sleep now! listen to ardbert!

[memorys-skyscraper]

its wild to me that for as much as people rave about the voice acting in FFXIV (and rightfully so), i've literally never seen anyone talk about the performances for nidhogg and hraesvelgr???

like those VAs were having to deal with a conlang that looks like this:

and still managed to give really great performances with emotion befitting the content of each line

anyway this is an appreciation post for simon greenall (nidhogg) and steven hartley (hraesvelgr), absolute legends

#rambles #ffxiv #this post is brought to you by DSR prog #where the highlight of every pull is the p3 transition #when nidhogg shows up hollering SLOSKH AN GAHR / AHM IN LHEIN FHAIL #the latter part of which my static lovingly mistransliterates as I AM NAMED KYLE #also i learned while making this post that nidhogg and lolorito share an english VA lmfao

[ephemerle]

#realized i never posted this here but its so important to me #ardbert hylfyst #ffxiv #ff14

[viiioca]

one of my favorite bits of minor coerthan lore is that there's an abandoned castrum (castrum aquilonis) that they stopped construction on because of how tremendously shitty coerthan weather is now. the garleans -- from garlemald! notorious for its harsh conditions and shitty weather! -- took one look around coerthas and said, "actually, fuck this."

this is after they sent a spy to infiltrate ishgard & lost her. thing is, lucia received the ranking of "goe" before her defection: that places her at the same social rank as rulers of imperial territories and provinces, and among the frumentarii, it would indicate leadership. she was not just a normal field operative, she was a major resource for the empire. and she took one look at aymeric and said, "ummmm yeah i'm catholic now."

ishgard racking up Ws and clowning on the most powerful country in the known world at every turn just by existing in the mountains and having cold weather and hot elves. that is so funny to me

#ffxiv #loreposting #3.0 spoilers #heavensward spoilers #text post #ishgard #coerthas

[oooocleo]

another headshot batch! ill do more when im back from MCM 🫡

patreon

#my art #commission #commissions #dnd #ffxiv #will i remember to put my patreon link in posts.. who knows #i just noticed the UI update fucked up my tier icons!!

[nights-at-crystarium]

get out of those stuffy clothes, old man, time to get objectified

#i held off posting this yesterday bc tumblr seemed on fire. like. technically #it still barely loads for me today but i hope you can see this #ffxiv #vivien rell #emet-selch #emet selch #wolemet #own: next lvl

[surfacage]

meteor 7.0 looks like the protagonist of a telenovela named carlos miguel altamonte who is going to find his one true love after 50 hours of convoluted plot twists

#ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #you know what ill jsut post everything here lmao #dawntrail

[ryuucae]

⚔️ 🛡️

#themis #elidibus #ffxiv #ff14 #final fantasy xiv #final fantasy 14 #ffxiv pandaemonium #art #digital art #illustration #a themis I drew a while ago #I keep forgetting to post this so I give up trying to post this when everyone is awake #just take it

[bigskycastle]

kupo

#sorry if i posted this one already #its an old one i just edited it so their hair is accurate now #my art #ffxiv #lil-e-yanna