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impossible-rat-babies · 4 months

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what gets me sometimes w the idea of the calamity is that there are probably places in the deserts of thanalan where the fire of bahamut turned the sand to glass and it’s just. a few handfuls of sand there are layers of glass

#like eyrie hears about prospector types in southern thanalan #and might have gone on a few ventures to keep them safe in the desert #and hearing about and seeing these layers of glass in the sand #like that sort of stuff is what messes with their head the most after the calamity #these bits and pieces of the mundane of life that have been so utterly changed #coerthas and its people are the starkest of the bunch but in the city states it’s these small things #the parts of the shroud that are so twisted and gnarled as the elementals cannot heal some of these hurts #how the wind and the water and the creatures of the area are. wrong and off #eyrie has been to western shroud only a few times and they have regretted it each time #gnarled ugly things live in that dirt #the debris in the oceans around La noscea #how it changed the landscape of the oceans. the tides and patterns changing now that a moon is gone #u don’t like. put a moon in orbit and it not effect the oceans #how many dead fish and other sea life washed ashore. the heaps of death #tainted and unable to be consumed. fires for burning these dead fish #pyres for the dead sahagin that washed ashore #idk I think about the damage to the people of Eorzea—the emotional and mental #but the ecological damage #like. if eyrie had the gumption to write a thesis for the studium #which would be a very rare chance since they would much rather write a book for the masses to have access to #but it would be a compiling of their offhanded ecological and human responses to the calamity #that push and pull between them #as someone with a vague familial connection to what thrived in the earth of their home ie. akin to elementals #it’s puzzling to them

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