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FF14 players have been told to hear, feel, and think since day 1, yet somehow hate Dawntrail because it expects you to do exactly that

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They're up in the peanut gallery throwing popcorn whenever the WOL does something

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~ tfw your world gets screwed over by ascians. ~

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wukrile

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I haven't been this stunned by the landscapes in such a long time~

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i also updated my ffxiv ot3 wol/estinien/graha fic!!! its both my birthday and my catboy!!! please give it a look! (this chapter is focused on the graha and estinien dynamic!)

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Alphinaud headcanon: he is actually a remarkably UN-picky eater. Truly omnivorous specimen. One might expect Mr. Hoity-Toity Rich Boy to have extremely exacting dietary preferences, but he’s actually willing to eat basically anything offered to him. He’s a diplomat, after all. What’s he gonna do, refuse hospitality? Never.

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*ishikawa voice* It's a surprise tool that will help us later

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this guy in my ffxiv guild befriended a woman also in the guild and started being a creep after he saw what she looked like, she was highly weirded out by this so she pulled the "you know im trans, right" card to try to get him off her back

and this dude backpedaled so hard because of his fear of being attracted to a trans woman that he left the guild with all his little buddies and made an anti woke guild LOL

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The symbology of the Convocation of Fourteen is just... one of my favorite details in ffxiv. And yeah, I know they have zodiac signs because Final Fantasy Tactics had zodiac signs and FF12 had zodiac signs, but 14's spin on them is inspired, and I don't think that gets enough appreciation.

Each of the Ascians is characterized to at least superficially match their sign. Emet-Selch seems like a Gemini, seemingly on both sides of every issue. Fandaniel seems like a Leo who wants to be the center of attention. Lahabrea, The Creator, seems like an artsy Pisces... just...y'know, a horrible one.

And it's not as if "terrible, messed-up version of Zodiac symbol" is new here. Tactics definitely had that already. The thing ffxiv adds to the trope is the presence of the Sun.

Azem's symbol being the sun and not a constellation tells us exactly what their role in the Convocation was supposed to be. The sun's path through the constellations is what gives all those signs their meanings. You can't be a Gemini unless the sun is in Gemini. The sun's passage through the zodiac is supposed to illuminate the best way forward. This is why Emet-Selch calls them both "Shepherd to the stars in the dark," and "Counsellor to the star's people." They're meant to inspire people to become their best selves. This is inadvertently what WoL does in numerous places and times across the game, (and one of the ancients in Elpis even comments on it) because apparently repeatedly dying at the hands of their coworkers and friends for eons did not get them out of having to do their job.

When the sun protested their unspeakbly terrible plan, they went all in on their hubris by casting it down forever. They never replaced Azem. They don't even want to remember they ever had a sun. They don't have the light that illuminates their best selves, their better future. So they can't find it anymore. They don't know how to be themselves anymore, in Azem's absence. In Elidibus' case, literally. He is so desperate for the guiding star he can't even remember having, that he constantly, instinctively, seeks out Azem in different forms. Wearing Ardbert's corpse, and wandering up to WoL for awkward chats, and looking back to the heroes of the past who were definitely Azem shards.

The sun, torn from the heavens, leads to the maker's ruin.

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hi sorry going through tags and feelin the graha feelings

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"I am the adjudicator of the sacred history with which you dared trifle."

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Crystal exarch feat Crystarium

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So i've been playing through ffxiv on a dumb npc alt i made. and uhhh this moment kinda hits different with Krile, i think