#ffxiv ratatoskr

[estinininininen]

Varshahn:

Estinien:

Varshahn:

Estinien: . . . So, those are dragon scales.

Varshahn: yeah what about it HUH

Estinien: Did y'all . . . ?

Varshahn: . . . imprison or kill a dragon to get them like SOME countries would? No.

Estinien:

Estinien: ok cool

Varshahn: cool

Estinien: Good.

Varshahn: Good.

Estinien is then kidnapped by the Thavnair alchemists, complaining loudly the whole way, and no one knows if he's putting up with it cause Scion duties and this is just how he plays nice - he bitched all the way to Hraesvelgr, after all - or if he genuinely just forgot he could jump

Meanwhile, in the meghaduta

Vrtra: hey Ahewann cancel DEFCON 1, this guy is cool. Total softy. Also kind of a dumbass. Of course I'll be glad to help clean up, I'm not going to make the maids clean up dragon piss. Ahem. Did I ever tell you about my brother Nidhogg? Yeah, the one I've avoided answering for a thousand years. Uh, well, yeah the dramatic asshole who went off the deep end, yes. Him. Too be fair it was about our sister, Ratatoskr - yeah, oh I'm actually really glad you remember what I said about her! She was a lot like . . . No, it's fine to interrupt, I got lost in memories for a second there. Ummmm, yes, I suppose it has influenced why I . . . hestitate telling everyone I'm the satrap. But Nidhogg took it way too far, yeah. He used to be a cool big brother, I swear. Knew how to get under everyone's skin, didn't put up with bullshit, but let kids climb all over him if it made them happy. Whenever I visited he was always swarmed by his own kids and all his niblings, and teaching them how to hunt and defend themselves against morta - Oh, but that was a couple Astral eras ago, sorry. Turns out Tiamat and Hraesvelgr weren't joking - yeah my other sister, Tiamat, the one who went into battle recently with this guy against, uh, yeah, the corrupted image of another brother of ours. Bahamut, yeah - yeah. The one who almost destroyed a continent, yes. Hraesvelgr? Hraesvelgr's our other brother who lived with Nidhogg for a long time - yyyyeah yeah you heard right, last time they met Nidhogg did call his dead mortal wife a whore and tore Hrae's wing off. Anyway! Anyway they were right, this guy really is like if you sucked all the filling out of a Nidhogg donut and tried to squish it into an Elezen. Yeah, sorry, that is the closest I can get to describing dragon aether stuff. Is he . . . yeah he's the guy who technically killed Nidhogg and spent his whole life training to kill dragons but like I just said, Nidhogg smooshed the two of them together. He's all but a dragon walking around in a mortal meat suit and seems mostly just embarassed by it. Kiiiinda looking forward to messing with his head more, honestly. Let's get the curtain ready. Ahewann, why do you look so scared?

[meltylove97]

thoughts on dragons

[iamnotshazam]

in ffxiv, dragons can sense other dragons, and mortals can train themselves to "see" and feel other mortals' aether. there must only ever be a few people at a time in all of coerthas, much less inside ishgard, that can do both, and well. those who might, dragoons and blood-changed heretics, have until recently spent their lives racing towards death or dragonhood. no one knew . . .

which is why estinien is. a bit surprised. a little unnerved. when he wakes up in ishgard after the final steps of faith and something is . . . different about everyone in the city. it's very slight and takes him a long time to even try to describe. like there's a breath of dragon's aether just slightly layered in between their eyes and their mortal soul, but in ways not physical. it's neither mortal aether nor dragon aether. and it's so stretched and thin it should break and yet it's inexplicably strong.

it should not be familiar to him in his mortal shell but it is. nidhogg's memories and estinien's own acknowledgement of the truth of the war (that they do not deserve her) both pull against making the assumption but eventually he has to admit-

ishgard is steeped in ratatoskr's aether.

it gathers strongest in teachers and bards and parents nurturing children. it croons grief, and yes, anger, over the dragoon training grounds but also rejoiced when they drove back dragons that would kill the dragonets children of the nest city. it settles into warm bellies with the bite of fresh bread and twines around thumbs as if amazed. it keens hardest at betrayal and abandoned children. if an orphan in the brume is very tired and lonely or afraid as they fall asleep, they might hear a moment of a lullaby from a voice that isn't real, in a language that doesn't exist on hydaelyn or the dragonstar, but they understand all the same. it delights over the choir in st reymanaud's cathedral and dances over the air let out from the pipe organ. it coils around the soft skin of the elderly on a deathbed and gives what comfort it can for a people doomed to mortality. it is awestruck with every live birth, so painful, so triumphant, so weirdly . . . mammalian.

it is not really her. more like the echo of an echo. nidhogg expected the ascians to try some terrible scheme with her memory, as they had with tiamat and bahamut, but they didn't. perhaps the villains knew the first brood would never fall for that again. no matter how badly he missed her he knew she wouldn't want her life extended unnaturally if her eyes and body were gone. yet midgardsormr and his brood are not mortal, and something of choice remains for them after death. to dissipate into the aetherial sea? or, like midgardsormr resting in the lake, to linger for some watchful purpose after death?

estinien books it the hell out of ishgard with a lot of flowers. he's got a lot of graves to see, and he doesnt plan on stopping until he reaches sohr khai

[capriccio-ffxiv]

With the fall of the old order of Ishgard and the followers of Nidhogg both, I feel as though I can, at last, embrace my heritage in full. I am Elezen, and I am of Ratatoskr's brood. These things are not in opposition, but in harmony.

[speckled-dragon]

He Sings the Song of Change (1633 words) by speckled_dragon Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Final Fantasy XIV Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Estinien Wyrmblood & Ratatoskr Characters: Estinien Wyrmblood, Ratatoskr (Final Fantasy XIV) Additional Tags: Time Travel, Time Travel Fix-It, Alternate Universe - Time Travel, Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, ficwip, Ficwip5k, Estinien Wyrmblood-centric, Estinien Wyrmblood Being Estinien Wyrmblood, Estinien Wyrmblood is Kinda Feral Series: Part 1 of Reverse Scale Summary:

Estinien doesn't intend to find himself compared to the Warrior of Light, but he has to admit.

Being sent back in time and actually managing to alter the course of history does not help.

[the-manderville-mambo]

Speaking of how boss music with lyrics is a great way to add characterization, I'm reminded of my personal headcanon regarding Dragonsong's singer. Officially it's supposed to be Hydaelyn, but tbh it would make more sense (to me at least) for it to be Ratatoskr singing it, especially after going through Endwalker

Firstly, Ratatoskr was noted for being a singer. Several of her descendants are mentioned as succeeding her legacy in the same way (that one PvP mount). Secondly, the word choice within the song doesn't match up with another one that's sung from Hydaelyn's PoV: Answers. Where Answers has "my children," Dragonsong has "children of the land." It doesn't make as much sense for Hydaelyn to say something like that, but if we consider that the people who once dwelled in the Churning Mists were known as landlords, in comparison to the dragons being called skylords, it would make far more sense for it to be said by a dragon

Thirdly, it would have greater emotional impact for Dragonsong to be Ratatoskr's spirit lamenting this thousand-year war and wondering why mortals would do such a thing, why they would betray her so, than for it to be Hydaelyn doing so when she has a far greater understanding of mortals (compared to something as alien as a dragon). Especially given that Dragonsong is a track more closely associated with Nidhogg and Hraesvelgr, Ratatoskr's two closest siblings, than with Hydaelyn or even Midgardsormr. You hear a vocal-less version at Zenith, where Hraesvelgr lives, and the full version during the Final Steps of Faith, the culmination of the Dragonsong War and the final confrontation with Nidhogg. Midgardsormr, meanwhile, has his own personal theme (Primogenitor) and Hydaelyn is notably absent from most of HW's story

[dovalore]

midgardsormr and the first beans

[trustinsighters]

In the farthest reaches of the Churning Mists rests a beautiful palace, once Ratatoskr’s abode. Following her passing, dragons renamed it Sohr Khai, meaning "grieving apology," now a remnant of a forgotten era of peace, adorned with human-crafted carvings of the wyrm.

Dragons are believed to preserve history through their songs. Ratatoskr was known for creating beautiful songs until mortals' betrayal silenced her forever.

[sheekns]

Nidhogg from Final Fantasy XIV. I wanted to do a full card with color pencils and test a couple of things :)

[avirael]

Ratatoskr

[lunarosewood23]

"Never underestimate the power of song, of a voice. For when one cries out, many more can and often will rise to join in its chorus."

THANK YOU SO MUCH @joshua-beeking FOR THIS GORGEOUS ART OF RAVEN AND RATATOSKR!!!! I am legit still in absolute awe over this gorgeous piece!! He did an absolutely beautiful job with the piece and he is a very sweet human. If you want a commission from him, his comms are open (his prices are here!)

Some nifty little lore bits under the cut for crossover chaos. Warning, XIV spoilers under the cut

Ratatoskr is the Eikon of Sound in crossover chaos. Most of the time her Dominants are bards, but in Raven's case she weaves elemental magic into her songs in the form of Eikonic music, which she mixes lyrics and melodies from both in Valisthea and back home in Eorzea. FE: Wind magic she mixes the melody from XIV!Garuda with the lyrics of XVI!Garuda. (Her voice channels the magic while her staff channels the elemental power)

The meteor shower "weather" condition is a reference to several things in XIV, between it being the logo of FFXIV, a reference to the Seventh Umbral Calamity, the Final Days, the very fact that she isn't from there, and that the fire of the meteors is a reference to the fact that Clive Rosfield is her shard.

While not planned, the fact that there are six meteors here tickles me bc this is the exact number of people who fall into Valisthea.

The light in her hand is meant to be a reference to how the first Dominant she befriended in Valisthea is Dion Lesage, who she calls oath brother basically on sight and she adopts him, his partner and his dragoons as her own.

Raven is basically what happens when you take Songstress from X-2 and mix it with elemental magic. I have a slide in her powerpoint with her lyrics, including Leviathan, though that's probably gonna get updated with whatever happens in The Rising Tide DLC

[calowlmitygoddess]

single father of seven taking his kids for a ride

[elveny]

I wonder what Nidhogg was like before Ratatoskr's murder drove him into violent insanity. Was he the protective, kind elder brother, indulgingly granting his sister every wish? Was he ever the protector of the world Midgardsormr wanted him to be?

And would've Vrtra gone the same way had Azdaja been killed and not vanished and by an enemy he could have actively engaged?

[desertleviathan]

All right FFXIV Tumblr, I need a little help.

Warning, Dragon-related spoilers spread across the MSQ for pretty much the entire game and all expansions!

My character's main job is Dragoon and I'm decorating my house with a theme surrounding that job, including a lot of Dragon-related stuff. In fact, the location is called "NIDHOPPS", Ishgard's first and only Craft Brewery/Dragonsong War Museum, with such memorabilia as I can find for all the First Brood.

I'm working on the Orchestrion choices. I have 8 slots, and here are my thoughts on how to use them.

1.) "Primogenitor" - The boss music for Midgardsrormr in Keeper of the Lake and in Alphascape 2.0. And now that I take the time to check, also apparently for the first time we fight Nidghogg in the Aery, and the fight with Hraesvelgr in Sohr Khai! Although the rest of these are chronological in terms of in-game appearance, I put this one before the next one to reflect Midgardsormr's place in the family.

2.) "Answers" - The music for the End of an Era cutscene where Bahamut was revealed. There are a few Bahamut-related choices, but this is the most dramatic.

3.) "Roar of the Wyrm" - The theme from the Aery, where we first face Nidhogg directly. This isn't actually what plays during the boss fight though, so its place on the list is most tentative.

4.) "Apologies" - The theme from Sohr Kai, where Hraesvelgr tests our mettle before we face Nidhogg again. Like Roar of the Wyrm, the actual boss fight music is actually Primogenitor though.

5.) "Revenge of the Horde" - From the Final Steps of Faith, Part 1, where we vanquish Nidhogg. This being an Ishgardian residence, I feel like the antagonist of the Dragonsong War deserves extra prominence.

6.) "Freefall" - From the Final Steps of Faith, Part 2.

7.) "Seven Flames" - From Paglth'an, where we fought along Tiamat's side to reach and slay Lunar Bahamut.

8.) "As The Sky Burns" - From Vanaspati. I'm hesitant because I'd rather enshrine Vrtra in glory than grief, but no moment in the game highlights his nature better than when he's begging you to show mercy to the Blasphemies because they're still Children of Thavnair.

Missing - Azdaja and Ratatoskr don't have tracks on this list. The former because all the music that plays around her is more about her circumstances and her captor than about her personally, and the latter because she's a conspicuous absence in the story, and Nidhogg's rage is the primary memento we have of her.

I also thought about putting Shinryu on this list, because I love "The Worm's Tail" and "The Worm's Head" from the Royal Menagerie trial. But I wouldn't have put one on the list unless I had room for both, and as a weird sort of footnote to the First Brood I didn't think Shinryu deserved multiple slots like Nidhogg does.

Anyway, does this sound about right, or does anyone have suggestions of tracks that would fit better, or would make sense for the two missing First Brood? As important as Nidhogg is, 8 tracks for 8 Dragons seems like it's meant to be, you know?

[capriccio-ffxiv]

If Midgardsormr got a humanoid simulacrum like Vtra does he would pick a min height fem-ra and I will die on this hill

Reasons:

* he likes being smol

* he laid those eggs guys

* canonically dragons are like "what's a gender" and he probably has less of a clue than any of his kids

* horns & tail & scales still familiar & good

his voice would be exactly the same tho

[xenodile]

Been on my mind for a while but there's definitely some kind of sexual/romantic subtext about like, Ysayle being Shiva's spiritual successor as the lady that wants to get with a dragon, Shiva and Hraesvelgr bonding so that her soul is always be with him, then Estinien fusing with Nidhogg and effectively becoming a dragon-man, and then receiving the armor blessed by Ratatoskr that he names after Ysayle so she will always be with him.

Like there's layers to dig through here but it's all there