#ffxiv ancients

[uneryx]

saw a poll floating around about which ancient is the most boopable and the consensus was almost unanimous. Remember him. Remember that he once was booped.

[egguv]

sunder.

🎭prints🎭

[miqojak]

Y'all ever think about just how much Garlean architecture looks like that of Amaurot's?

Y'all every just think about how much Emet Selch missed his home, and his friends? How his heart must have hurt so badly, even after all that time?

Y'all ever think about how many times he must have tried to re-capture the essence of it - just to feel something? Just to evoke their memory? Even if no one in the world knew but him?

Y'all ever think about the depths of loneliness and insanity that chasing this morbid dream must have led to over unknowable - unfathomable - lengths of time? And how, amidst this growing insanity and obsession, he still clung to hope - even in a twisted form? He still evoked their memory everywhere he went. He left monuments in his wake that none would ever recognize but himself; vestiges of a civilization long devoured by time, and a pair of warring gods.

Remember us, he said, because that's what he'd spent eons trying to do.

Anyways, the day I was looking for a spot to take screenshots in Garlemald, I was struck by the architecture of an empire that fell - not unlike how his own people eventually fell - and these thoughts, and thought I'd take some screenshots and be sad about them.

[galacticsabc]

When the Sun is Snuffed Out

[ffxivmemes]

Emet Selch hot.

[akirakirxaa]

The FFXIV Swap Discord proudly presents Ancient May, or, more colloquially, #Mayncient! On the discord, many of our members have ancients that are not Azem, and I know that goes for here on Tumblr as well. So we wanted to make an ancient OC based month that would not feel limited to only Azems. Azems are of course welcome, but not required, as are any OCs that hold other seats, or are even just normal people trying to get by in the pre-Sundering world. We want to see all your Ancients!

Mayncient is open to all types of art, be it gpose, drawing, writing, anything you can do is welcome for Mayncient! And we're posting nice and early so everyone can have a chance to participate, even if you need to prep before May.

We hope you have fun, and we're excited to see all your beautiful and unique Ancients!

Edit: Please don't think that you can't participate because your only ancient is Azem, Azem is still welcome! We just wanted to be inclusive of all Ancient OCs, not only Azem. :3 So bring your Azems! All Ancients are welcome, including Azem.

[chicinlicin]

self-indulgently putting ancients in 20s formal wear

[balladingbard]

How Deryk Solved the Problem of the Ancients

When we talk about the Myths of the Realm finale, I think many of us went in expecting how the story would end.

We knew the Twelve were former Ancients from Venat’s faction. We knew they were getting ready to pass the torch to mankind. Heck, we even knew Deryk was Oschon.

But despite the predictability of the story, I think Myths highlighted a nagging problem Ancient society was plagued with and never could get over: the inability to enjoy life simply for what it was.

When we think about it, the Ancients based their lives on their work and purpose. Once that purpose was done, death awaited. We saw it in Ancient society with the Elpis arc. We saw it with the Ascians, like Emet-Selch and Elidibus and their speeches on duty. We also saw it with the Twelve, who after all these millennia of guiding mankind to stand on their own feet again, decided to call it quits and return to the Star.

Work becomes life, according to the Ancients, and once that work is done, what life is there left to live?

But then Oschon came along.

Like the rest of the Twelve, Oschon (or Deryk, as he called himself) was like the other Ancients. His work was wrapping up, and after a final test for mankind, he was going to return to the Star with his friends like the other Ancients before him. But unlike the rest of the Twelve, rather than observing and keeping communication to a minimum with mankind, he reached out and became one of them - joining their travels, breaking bread at the table, listening to their hopes and dreams.

Though still at work, he got to do something the other Twelve had little chance to do - see the newly created world not from the eyes of a protective deity, but of a man. And when he allowed himself to glimpse a life outside of his work, it awakened a desire to remain. While the other Eleven returned to the Star, Oschon decided to stay, embracing Deryk’s identity and finally taking the time to simply enjoy the world and people he’d spent lifetimes protecting.

In short, Oschon learned a lesson the Ancients ignored - how to see the beauty of life outside of work.

Though the Ancients weren’t wrong in celebrating their purposes and finding joy in what they did, we saw in the Elpis arc and Hermes how damaging it was to make life solely about work. Would Hermes have been as distraught in taking Fandaniel’s seat knowing it didn’t mean the end of his mentor? Could the Eleven have gotten to know their people had they stayed, and thus find new purpose in the world they helped shape? Menphina says in her final battle, “Let’s delight in the simple things,” but does she really allow herself to?

No. Instead, it’s Oschon, the wanderer…the loner. The one who really wasn’t supposed to be around people much, but chose them over his purpose as an Ancient anyways. And despite still having love for the Eleven, he allowed himself to do something no other Ancient (except perhaps Elidibus) could do: remember the Ancient world, but still embrace the new.

[yuuefa]

𝑭𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝑭𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒎 𝑭𝒊𝒗𝒆

Emet Selch fanart in shade Amaurot

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[silketara]

Did not expect to like Themis more than any ancients but here I am :’)

[gelatinpanda]

━━━━━━━━━━━ [M] Chambers of the 14th Mana [Hades] | Empyreum | W14 | P21 You get stuck upon entering, just jump then walk forward. Like always, if you want to visit, I can add you!

[evaporatingvoid]

colored commission for @b0g-b0dy 💗

[staticcolour]

Commission 💐

[stars-and-clouds]

I did another thing

[ooeygooeyghoul]

Azem || The 14th Seat of the Convocation

Vulcan || Master of the Forge, Beastslayer, and Forbidden Keeper of the Primordial Flame. A cold and apathetic man misunderstood by the people around him. Not a single one of them knew just how deep his ambition ran. Vulcan is one of those Azems who is only vaguely similar to his shards. He and Shiun don't have a lot in common, but Shiun's construction does contain a part of Vulcan's soul.

[magellanica]

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