#amaljaa

[halybs]

Amalj'aa

[moonlightpaladin]

Please look at my son, he is so stronk

[communitycatboy]

If you thought G'ohak was pretending to be bad with a bow to get more 1 on 1 time...you'd be wrong, but you won't see them complaining >:3

[helleborexiv]

love all the scaevan gear, but the striking set is my personal favorite

[shipperwolf1]

Dawntrail to outright confirm that the beast races have sundered ancients among them just like everyone else 2k24

[kicktwine]

right well naming anon I had a whole post and then tumblr deleted it. I’ll be back if I get over how betrayed I am

[graha-stan-account]

I never did binding coils... until now. Before tonight I just did up to turn 2 for tome farming with BLU...

I just finished and... I'm... I'm feeling. 🥹

[budugaapologist]

unsafely thinking in tags

[before-calamity]

Unfinished Nald's Reflection

Okay, so here's something I stumbled upon randomly.

I was getting material for the future, and stumbled upon an out of bounds area.

This area led me to a cave, and this room was at the end. This is unusual - I happened upon an "edge of the world" scenario earlier today, and this room mainly looked like there were world objects that were supposed to be there, but either didn't load in or weren't placed there. I had a hunch what it could, be and sure enough...

This is Thal's Respite, nestled north of Camp Drybone. We'll talk more about it in the future, but for now, take a look at the picture of it and compare it to the picture above. Especially look at the left hand side - that little torch area with the ledge fits exactly with the missing texture, and the statue area itself also fits!

In ARR, there are two statues of Nald'thal. One is north of Drybones, called Thal's Respite. One is in the Red Labyrinth (south of Little Ala Mhigo), called Nald's Reflection. In 1.0...there is only Thal's Respite. There is no Nald's Reflection. Given the lore of Ul'dah and Nald'thal, this doesn't make sense - there are two statues because Ul'dah considered Nald and Thal to be "seperate but whole" - they are twins, although part of the same godhead.

Thus, it doesn't make sense to only have one of those shrines in Thanalan in 1.0, especially when there are two of these statues in Ul'dah in 1.0 (in the THM guild and in Milvaneth Sacrarium).

Seems to be that there was going to be one, but they either ran out of time or budget or simply didn't want to finish it.

What is really interesting to me is the placement - this unfinished room was found literally right in Zana'rak, which is the Amaljaa's main area. It's their home. This room was found in a blocked off area. I noticed that there seemed to be a cave entrance on the other side, so I phased through the barricade. I was expecting to see the edge of the world...but not this. If the original area was meant to be Zanar'ak...this has interesting implications for the original plot of FFXIV. How pissed off would the Uldahn's be that one of Nald'thal's shrines be occupied by the Amalj'aa? Especially since Nald represented the living and most importantly for the desert nation -commerce. Ul'dah is a country built on commerce, so much so that the city is in an ever fight between the Sultana and the merchants. What a plot point that would be! "Hey Warrior of Light/1.0 Adventurer, the Amalj'aa is defiling this statue of our patron diety, go and run them out of their home." However, this is just stipulation. It's possibly it was only worked on in an out of bounds area outside Zanar'ak and then moved closer to another location. Given that is in another location in ARR, a more neutral location, just makes me wonder the original plan for Nald's Reflection. Given what happens later in ARR's story in the post Shadowbringer patches, it's probably a good thing that it was moved to be in a neutral location - those Ul'dahns probably would never live with the idea of the beastmen occupying the shrine. TL;DR: There is no Nald's Reflection in 1.0, but looks like it was merely unfinished. It is located out of bounds near Zanarak, at the end of a cave entrance you wouldn't normally have access to. Given the story of ARR, this has interesting consequences.

[shizucheese]

So I was going to take a cute pic with a delivery moogle because we're doing the Delivery Moogle quests tonight but then I noticed this cute little picnic (?) area near my FC house that has this cute little snow carbuncle and now I need it as a housing item make it happen SE.

But yeah. Tonight! Delivery Moogles. GSM crafting quests (I was able to get that one to 50). The next phase of the Sylph and Amaljaa beast tribe quests and the start of the Ixal quests. Let's get real crazy and unlock FSH while we're at it. Basically tonight's going to be a mostly chill stream where we try to clean up some quests ahead of finishing up ARR on Sunday. Catch me on Twitch and YouTube on Sundays starting at 4:30 central time and Tuesdays and Wednesdays starting at 7:30 central time!

[voidsentprinces]

Here is Ifrit the fire primal of the Amaljaa, Titan the Avalanche of the Warren Kobold, Garuda Maelstrom and Razor Wind incarnate! Moogle Mog legendary pom king of the Moogles, Shiva Saint of Dravania, Leviathan Leviathan! 🎸 🎸, Ravana War God of the Onemind!

What about that whale?

Oh that's Bismarck...he eats islands and produces ill tempered bubbles.

[moonlightpaladin]

Logged in to check my Cactpot winnings only to discover that I hadn't bought any tickets last week lmao

So I did today's tribe quests. I think Dal would get along with these Brotherhood of Ash Amalj'aa honestly. We're gonna be bestfriends.

[galianbeast]

slightly younger chuluun and amaljaa friend who I forget what I named them (it's on a file somewhere...)

[kiturnix]

did the amaljaa quests with my femroe and she fell in insta-love

[vermanaward]

actually to bounce of sasha's post on minority cultures in the eorzean city states, this is. another reason i was actually disappointed the variant/criterion dungeons didn't give us one per city state (as i originally guessed they would), like. the uldahn one gave us a look into sil'dih, belahdia and the amaljaa that you just don't. get anywhere else in the game

imagine if there was a gridanian variant which dug into gelmorran or keeper culture. the underground dwelling elves originally living in gridania who got forcibly 'civilised' by the human (sorry, hyuran) culture which worshipped the elementals. the mooncats, who have barely any worldbuilding ingame outside of a few fates and the fucking. postmoogle questline

a limsa variant which gets into the kobolds and the double standard between limsa flaunting the uldahn rules on 'beast tribe' traders for some (goblins, qiqirn) but not others (kobolds, sahaugin). the struggles faced by the kobolds and the sahaugin in the face of the calamity, on top of having to deal with limsa's colonial ambitions. it wouldn't be a particularly deep exploration of any of these topics but it'd be fucking. something. instead i gotta babysit eorzea's most annoying weeb, or sit there consumed with irritation while matsya fishes and i can't.

[arcann]

If I were an npc on ffxiv I know I'd be that poor guy from the drk mission asking wol to save some guys from the amaljaa and instead of being normal they tell me I'm so weak and useless and it's their own fault they got kidnapped as if we're not living in the middle of kidnapping central on freaking hws thanalan and i can't see fray giving wol an identity crisis.