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kaynotebook · 15 hours ago
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Wuk Lamat but she's tabasqueña! / 01-25
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kaynotebook · 6 days ago
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The twins in each expansion. I needed to make a reference sheet to keep my brain straight.
They grow up so fast 🥹
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kaynotebook · 8 days ago
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arcadion - next opponent
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kaynotebook · 13 days ago
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Do you think G'raha had an adjustment period of "initial reaction vs. experience"
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kaynotebook · 29 days ago
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but you see, bunnies own the moon collectively
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kaynotebook · 1 month ago
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My fave thing abt the scions is how they yell at WoL when WoL sacrifices themself once (1) as if each and every single one of them hadn't sacrificed themselves several times before. 1 hour ago even!!
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kaynotebook · 1 month ago
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FFXIV memes sticker set that I will be selling at #helloWOrLdmnl !!!!
Tag yourself, Im Estinien, Thancred, G'raha and Hermes
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kaynotebook · 1 month ago
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暗順応
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kaynotebook · 1 month ago
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I have always found it interesting that the WoL refers to Emet-Selch as not Emet-Selch but as Hades.
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Sure, the journal entry is named Emet-Selch. But the first thing written there is that his true name was Hades. You also see this when you describe him to the Minstrel for his extreme trial.
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Additionally, the description of the trial alludes to this as well. As when we talk about those we have faced in the First. We talk and refer to him as Hades. Which is also written similarly to the journal. Both of which were described/written by the WoL.
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"Hearken unto a requiem for a hero fallen. A man who lived a thousand thousand of our lives clinging desperately to faint hope, never shirking his sworn duty to his long-lost brethren. A man who stood proud and did avow his true name on the threshold of the battle that would see him fall to his rival—the light to quench his shadow. Borrowing liberally from the funereal rites of the Night's Blessed, the minstreling wanderer weaves an elegy in that hero's honor—the tragic-yet-triumphant tale of a man and a battle that ne'er shall be forgotten."
You can also see this in the quest dialogue and while we cannot know the exact words the WoL used (as it is your own intrepretation of it) it is still clear that the WoL didn't refer to Emet-Selch as Emet-Selch they call him Hades.
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For the WoL, this is about honoring the man who held steadfast to his ideas. Who fought for his loved ones just as much as the WoL does. Not the Ascian Emet-Selch. To honor and remember Hades as he once lived.
There is however, the matter brought up by the Minstrel: Why did Emet-Selch reveal his name to the Wol?
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We do have a simple meta reason why: Hades is a recurring Summon across the Final Fantasy games. Using the name Hades is just natural to do so.
However, let's look at this from an in-lore perspective as well. For which we can look to what he says and speculate.
In the quest, Return to Eulmore, before leaving to Wright you can question Emet-Selch over the information he gives in the cutscene before. Revealing to us that Emet-Selch, along with the rest of the ascians encountered, is merely a title inherited. Their true names are hidden to take up the name and position of their seat.
You can, upon hearing this, ask him for his true name:
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His reply to this is rather interesting:
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There are a couple of things to note from his response. Firstly, he doesn't outright dismiss telling you his name, only says that eventually he'll reveal it. Of course, this hinges upon you living through your trials in putting down the Lightwardens and containing the light within, or simply dying from other matters.
But this would be disappointing for him. This dialogue ties into what he proposes to you later in The View From Above. To stand with him as allies. He doesn't propose this to the rest of the Scions, just the WoL. He dangles these threads because he wants them to reach back as Azem would. The WoL dying would be disappointing, and he would have to begin his search anew for Azem's soul.
We don't know if Emet-Selch has encountered Azem's shards before the WoL. Maybe he had or maybe he didn't. But it wouldn't change the fact that the WoL's death would have him searching again.
Even as he hurls insults upon the WoL for once more disappointing him, that is still Azem's soul in there. After all, his invitation to seek him out in the Tempest allows you to die with dignity. Everything he ever does is not let himself be alone and reach out to an old friend.
He wants someone else to remember it all. Who is more worthy of remembering it all than Azem?
Emet-Selch is a man of many masks. It is true, and his emotions are ever cloaked, but there are ever glimpses of them throughout Shadowbringers. Especially if it's Azem's soul prodding at him to reveal the layers underneath.
So in his final confrontation, when either the WoL dies or he, wouldn't it not be disappointing to leave the question of who the man underneath is all truly is? Perhaps even this even the last-ditch attempt to have the bearer of Azem's soul remember before either of you dies.
Emet-Selch yearns for his old friend to come back to him and remember. Just as much as he wishes shoulder the burden of remembering all of those that lived before. The WoL bears that last wish and remembers the man who fought for it all underneath as Hades. A man who once lived.
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kaynotebook · 1 month ago
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i like class quests i miss class quests because. class lore
what even IS dragoon's rise of the dragon
is it nidhogg taking a leisurely stroll thru the astral sea, and breaching the surface like a whale?
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probably not, but I choose to believe it is now that i drew it
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kaynotebook · 2 months ago
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As I've been revisiting the Warring Triad quests for fic purposes, I've been struck by just how prickly Krile is with Unukalhai when they first meet, how she immediately takes offense to him calling her "diminutive" and continues to needle him from that point on.
There's some really interesting stuff going on with Krile in Heavensward, I think. She's recently awakened as the sole survivor of a mysterious cataclysm that robbed her of her beloved grandfather as well as many close friends and colleagues; immediately after that, she learns that her best friend is missing, and sets off for Eorzea to help find her, only to learn that she's become Hydaelyn's emissary and isn't coming back.
Her first interaction with Thancred is also frankly bizarre, with seemingly neither of them really knowing much about Minfilia's relationship with the other despite both of them supposedly being so close with her. I think a lot of Krile's early interactions with the Scions bely some insecurity--understandably so. They're all friends, and she's the newcomer; they all had their own relationships with Minfilia that she wasn't a part of. So I'd venture that a lot of Krile's early prickly and over-the-top behavior boils down to that. She's trying to find her place in this group, she wants to be liked and belong and be useful (especially as she basically has nowhere else to go!) but she doesn't know their dynamic. She tries to break the ice with Thancred with teasing that lands very poorly because she doesn't know him like that, and doesn't understand his state of mind at the time, as his present manner doesn't much resemble the Thancred she heard about from Minfilia.
I also wonder if the offense she takes at any mention of her size has to do with her not being raised by Lalafellin parents--and misliking the reminder that she is "different" from the larger people she's always around.
In "When the Bough Wakes," early in the Warring Triad quests, Krile makes reference to "You Scions," implying that she does not yet consider herself to be one of them. This is in the context too of her admitting to being frightened of facing Sephirot, even at the side of the Warrior of Light.
Following Sephirot's defeat, Krile prods at Unukalhai thus:
Just what are you hiding beneath that mask of yours? Hmmm... A longing for hope. An appetite for power. A lingering sense of regret. And do I detect a desire to test your strength against a certain hero...?
Unukalhai's reaction suggests that Krile is not wrong. She subsequently assures him that the Echo does not allow her to read minds, and these were merely "wild guesses." I think perhaps they were not so wild, though--that Krile simply saw something of herself in Unukalhai, even without knowing his history. As we'll later learn, there are some striking similarities in what they've endured, as sole survivors who have lost their homes, their families, their people.
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kaynotebook · 2 months ago
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Oh Azem... nobody can haunt the narrative like you <3
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kaynotebook · 2 months ago
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But seriously stop asking Ishikawa about story and lore or writing process or whatever. Give that woman a mic and say “talk about how fascism is a weak system that styles itself to appear strong by using false perceptions of antiquity” you would probably have to knock her out to take the mic away. You guys need to let her talk. THAT is what shadowbringers and Endwalker is about.
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kaynotebook · 2 months ago
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some much needed advice from the goofiest character imaginable
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kaynotebook · 2 months ago
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reblog the child
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kaynotebook · 3 months ago
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One thing I love about FFXIV is dragons are refugees from a robot war in space and we all just accept that.
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kaynotebook · 3 months ago
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Seekers of Eternity
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