#shb. wow. yeah.

[astrxealis]

i was about to rb this really pretty shb art and then remembered i'm trying to avoid rbing spoilers <//3 anyways i love shb sm. love that it's an mmorpg but shb is literally one of the best jrpg experiences i (and many others) have had

[noxtivagus]

TODAY IS SO SO GOOD

[semi-imaginary-place]

back to shb eulmore

ok damn alphi. not easing them into it at all "everything you know is a line" what an opening line.

traveling by land up the cliffs is great and all but mt glug is floating, even if you try to avoid flying because of aerial attacks you're still going to have to fly to reach vauthy.

everyone in shb has depression

building a giant robot to grab a floating mountain has to be the least practical idea yet. you know how much material would be needed? why is urianger going to round up crystarium ppl and not the exarch. he's so bad at this secret identity thing.

I'm glad we have looped back around to the chai's tossing out that artist. i was wondering about that

lamitt was a freak huh. took off the helmet and was off lusting after ardbert's loins.

really wish there was a korma aetheryte

and thus with all our powers combined and all the friends we made along the way we achieved the impossible and reached the heavens

huh. if exarch had to merge with the crystal tower to extend his life, why are the scions not aging? the hero worship is real, just start a fanclub already. so many death flags

zenos roadtrip saga backpacking and hitchhiking across hydaelyn.

the feo ul plot point is so broken the writers had to not over use it.

mt gulg time. most of the time videogame building make 0 sense. but that's actually thematically appropriate here in that it's a mish mash of neoclassical design elemenents smashed together without any practicality. that builds are there to look pretty/cool not to have a function. hallways that lead nowhere. pointless staircases. a path that just runs into a wall. vauthy power fantasy self inset oc

yeah. again why was player character suppose to absorb all the lightwardens instead of distributing among all those with hydaelyn's blessing.

wow he had a villian monologue planned. does make a lot of sense to swipe the concentrated aether once it's already been gathered all together.

i'll be honest that chunking it into the rift sounds too easy. like why didn't you just do that with the lightwardens. or where is the rift? why not chunk them into the void/13th

emy sounds actually disappointed. awww did he get carried away on the pc's adventure to save the world, was there that little spark of hope, belief. he's angry the pc didn't win. why did he take the exarch? for info he says but he could have done that at any time

[drowxiv]

I just want to share the absurdity that is my intro-to-FFXIV experience because it comes back to bite me sometimes and it's kind of funny. I started playing FFXIV in 2019 after rage-quitting WOW. One of the things I hated most about WOW was raids, mostly because I was treated poorly by a guild while playing them. This is important later. My partner spent weeks trying to convince me to pick up FFXIV including "I'll literally buy you the game" but what finally got me was "You can be a Drow that picks flowers." I had a couple friends who played at the time and were VERY excited for me. Shadowbringers had JUST come out when I started playing and both my partner and my friends were really eager for me to reach endgame so I was told explicitly "just do the MSQ, don't worry about anything else." Cue absolute fucking CHAOS y'all.... I obviously did what I was told but the game kept pointing me at these job quests. So I asked about that and got "Oh yeah well obviously do your job quests AND MSQ" which is the point that I should have become suspicious about the advice.... but dear reader I am a dumb idiot who blindly trusts people. So I plowed through MSQ & Job quests per instructions until I got pretty deep into Heavensward and I wanted to unlock flying. THEN the instructions changed to "Oh, well, yeah, you have to look at those blue quests and if they have a green crystal go ahead and do those." One might think I'd start doubting the advice now, for sure. Nope. Dumb idiot. I just added that knowledge to the list and KEPT RIGHT ON TRUCKING. Blew through HW and SB that way. Finally got into SHB and my friends were so stoked for me. At this point I need to pause and point out that at this time the Crystal Tower raid was NOT required MSQ content. So I got to "THE MOMENT" in SHB. THE "parry this you fucking casual" moment and all my friends are freaking out and screaming and I'm just staring blankly like "...?" They go "Don't you KNOW who that IS?" No of fucking course I don't! And they go "OH! You should have played the Crystal Tower raid!" THE WHAT? So they had me unlock it and ran me through it to get the story. Because I only knew of raids from WOW I just kind of wrote that off as "the big raid" from ARR and then never thought about it again. Until alllllllll the way in Endwalker when my partner goes "Hey do you want to do the Pandaemonium raids with me." "RAIDS? I'M SORRY? PLURAL? RAID-S? THERE IS AN S? AS IN THERE IS MORE THAN ONE?" I missed EVERY. SINGLE. raid series from EVERY. SINGLE. expansion.... I'm still sifting through everything I haven't unlocked. I JUST learned that all the raid series' have savage versions which I haven't unlocked either. So I thought I had all of "Coils" open - NO WRONG! It's a mess.

[theemperorsfeather]

I'm glad the game has the option to run dungeons with npcs, partly because it's nice to have a more chill option, take in the sights, learn things slowly, and partly because it's just nice to go through that part of the story with them and get their bits of in-dungeon commentary, too.

So I got to Amaurot last night.

And then I got to Amaurot.

I thought perhaps I should quit for the evening because it was getting close to bedtime but I know about how long dungeons take, soooo, yeah! Sure! I toyed with the idea of maybe taking on the next step after that (tho I figured that would be a bad idea on multiple levels, because inevitable sequence of cutscenes).

I'm glad the game has the option to run dungeons with npcs also because I failed mechanics a truly shameful number of times (ok; with a player party, if the healer/other players are competent, meaning "any amount more competent than me", it might not have been quite so bad), and so it got quite late before I finally, somehow, made it through. I don't think I'm that terrible? I think it really might have been -that- difficult? (To say nothing of the emotional elements, which, wow, dungeon design in ShB has been amazing.)

I'd say I'm looking forward to getting to the next parts, which I have been anticipating for a long, long time, but for too many reasons, no.

[capriccio-ffxiv]

Is your character proud of how far they have come? What inspires them to keep going?

Illyria:

Once upon a time she really was. Illyria started out as, in her mind, not much of anybody—she had no talent for acting or dancing like her mother, nor for music or song like her brother, and she flunked out of Arcanist school and by extension proved she had no head for business (since said school also teaches finance). In her eyes, Ywain offering her a place in the Lancer's guild was solely out of pity (this wasn't the case; he genuinely saw potential in her, and figured what she really needed was *focus* more than anything).

Even through ARR and Heavensward, she had a lot of impostor syndrome. Why would the Eye of Nidhogg choose me, of all people? The only reason the Scions give a damn about me is the Echo.

Don't get me wrong—Illyria always appeared cheerful on the outside, quick with jokes and a smile. But all that masked deep insecurities.

(basically, she's your classic "I have severe ADHD and so I will make silly jokes to mask the fact that I think of myself as useless and lazy")

But, well, you can only escape the found family of the Scions for so long, and, over time, she came to realize that she did have valuable things to offer the world.

As of Endwalker, she was even given an honorary degree at the Studium, which was basically what she'd always wanted—to prove that she wasn't stupid.

Unfortunately, the combined Wow Ouch of the whole story also hit her at around the same time, which led to her current situation where she's asleep under Feo Ul's ministrations, and her Esteem, Voidsent, and Anima have kinda taken over "being" her for the moment.

Ryuu:

Extremely! Ryuu had a really bad habit of running away from her problems in her youth. She ran away from home because her Echo told her to find Kian (the WoL in her story); then she ran away from Kian for a LOT of complicated reasons, including "we're in our late teens / early 20s and he clearly has romantic feelings for me but while I like him a lot I think I'm a lesbian" "also he's in love with some weird idealized version of me, not the real me," who the hell is the real me anyway"; she met Ysayle sometime shortly before Kian started ARR and then ran away from her right before Heavensward due to an angry disagreement over the use of Primals... yeah. But she's since stopped running and thinks of that as a huge accomplishment. She's really glad she reconnected with Kian and through Kian met her now-wife Y'shtola (long story) and her close friend Lyse... She's SO glad to be part of the Scions now and is even planning to write a thesis on the peoples of Norvrandt. Currently she's at the end of SHB so we'll see how Endwalker goes!

[search-queery]

so I tried to come up with lore for my wol, but accidentally wrote a little fic (ShB spoilers)

Close friends start to notice that, since returning from the First, Rhelazi has started being very deliberate about how they wear their hair, sometimes tying it up or letting it down several times in a day.

* * *

"Perhaps it's just whatever suits their mood in the moment. Sometimes they seem quite different after changing their hair."

"I think they've started to notice," said Rhelazi.

"Notice what," asked Ardbert, "the hair thing?"

"Yeah. They've been... I don't know. Less confused recently? When I've taken the front? They used to take a while to adjust but now they start changing how they talk with us before I'm done putting my hair back up."

"Huh. That's uh. Convenient, I s'pose. Should we tell 'em?"

Rhelazi twirled a loose strand of their blonde hair around their finger, staring at their feet. "I'm not sure they'd...."

"Believe you?"

"No, it's not that."

"Trust you?"

"No, it's- it's-" Rhelazi searched their mind for words, but couldn't find the ones to complete the thought.

"Look, I haven't known them as long as you, but they seem like the understanding types. Open-minded, and all that. And hey, if it's anyone they'll be upset at, it'll be me!"

"That's not better! I don't want them to dislike you! You're my-" Rhelazi stopped, realizing they didn't have a word for this thing that they were together. "We're a team now. And you're not going anywhere."

"I'm not going anywhere," Ardbert assured them.

"Even if they were understanding of our situation conceptually," said Rhelazi, going back to his previous point, "I'm still... different now. I'm not who I've been saying I was. I don't know."

Ardbert thought for a while. He tried borrowing some of Rhelazi's memories to see if any of the books they'd read would help here, but found nothing he could easily apply. Then he tried searching his own memories. He remembered Cylva. He shared this memory. They shared Cyella's memory with him. They were both quiet for a while.

"Do you want to see her again?"

"I don't know."

* * *

* * *

okay wow I thought I was writing a bit of lore I didn't expect a fic. go read this fic someone wrote about my RP but also accidentally about my headmate Cedar, with whom I cowrote this fic. https://archiveofourown.org/works/26353189

[catleha]

 @hyethla asked: falls asleep on her desk aka a depressing drabble nobody asked for.

  ‹  THERE WAS A SOFTNESS INSIDE HER; oft disregarded, set aside as if meant to fade & wither. Sparsely had she openly shown signs of a more mellow composure, something beyond the rough demeanor of a hardened scholar raised in a cave; ‘twould seem she was someone oh so in love with chiding words & a certain scorn, following in old matron’s footsteps oh so indignantly. Yet sometimes one could not help but surrender; a blink, a mere string of syllables muttered underneath her very breath: requesting help, leaning onto a dear friend’s shoulder. Oh, such moments were rare & brilliant in their subtlety -- clandestine, softest palm set against pugilist's very arm to express concern / an embrace shared with her dear astrologist after being saved from ash & cinder -- prone to bursts of compassion, expressed in her very peculiar way; admitting defeat, mourning the loss of so much / seemingly so little. 

      Oh, only two have ever borne witness to a more mild-mannered side; an astronomer, ever so delicately building the most unlikely camaraderie forged midst a raging forest fire & the desire to find someone to confide in. A healer, just like she once had been with a gift, however, not blighted by crude persona / whatever darkness dwelt within. -- why, Urianger’s very words never ceased to remedy what own doubt tempted to tear apart. The second was someone regarded with mayhaps a bit too much cordiality -- Lyse, an even more unlikely companion; pondering day & night about her whereabouts & well-being, as if one’s very existence was enough to threaten the lives of those she had chosen to love. What else could one of her kind do but worry, those that had died had mainly been hers to doom. -- perhaps that had been the sole reason for their unlikely bond; the agony felt over the loss of another. && through one would have never admitted anything similar: both, Papalymo & Minfilia had left a hole, a gaping void; ‘twas only herself she ought to blame for the demise of the latter. 

         Now & forevermore, it seemed.

      Memories oft lingered on that very day; seething light, own voice drowned by the very rumble heard above. -- flow. Oh, had she but known the repercussions of that wretched spell. Had she but known that next to the rogue she ought to save, yet another had been cast into the lifestream only to be grasped & used. Lost & forlorn, too far beyond an archon’s reach. && upon awakening, upon being torn out of a dreamless slumber, what numbness had overcome heart & soul both? This foreboding sentiment of something sinister / this excruciating feeling of uncertainty? Something had not been quite right, something no longer in place. -- pray, recall the anxiety / the panic / the paralyzing realization that one had PAID; for what, she could not tell alas alas, now she knew. 

    Blind eyes could not decipher the details of her unwelcomed guest's clothes, hair or stature, could not determine what the child’s motives had been ere drifting off. Yet ears could decipher a quiet little ‘snore’; most gentle breath, the minuscule rustle of accessories dragged across the wooden surface. The girl had most likely exhausted herself, had studied whatever ancient tome she had wagered to haul onto the sage’s own desk. -- inclined to sort papers & parchments, trying so desperately to be of use. For but a moment, a witch would remain, scorched gander cast above the oracle’s very head; drifting, yet again in keepsakes long forgotten. Aye, ‘twas a familiar sight. Yet in her memories ‘twas a woman hunched over her desk, asleep with her face resting upon latest paperwork; remember: usually beatific features twisted into some somber mien, with brows furrowed & petite wrinkles there to cast drab shadows across an otherwise juvenile visage. Never had younger self dared to disturb; why, the antecedent had had a tendency to hardly rest; not before all work was done. Always laboring, quarreling, intermingling. -- ears twitch, lids flutter. Remember, remember: you have been acquaintances, comrades, fellow scions bound by the will to protect & serve a greater good.

     Alas upon rogue & oracle’s arrival, there had been no love for a child bearing the name Minfilia of the First, no recollection, no merry moment meant to prompt some heartfelt reunion. Adamant & unforgiving, had MASTER MATOYA not but turned on her very heel, solemnly cursing what dear friends had dragged into her lair. What was this thing but a pawn cast out of Hydalyn’s maw; a mere trick, a carbon copy meant to manipulate & deceive. A common cause meant to anchor them to this wretched world. Torture! Naught but a crude joke with an aether as bright as the First’s original sin. -- & yet times had changed; here a girl oh so eager to please, to see the good in people, to be seen as someone else. 

     Seconds pass, ticking on & on ‘till craned neck grew stiff. ‘twas a cruel sentiment, destiny’s bitter hand dealt & taken. A curse, a horrid quip; an ache so palpable she could not ignore it no matter how much one attempted; to bury it alongside former self / to adjust & cease to trace the scar deeply craved into her very chest. Naught but a spectre, chained to the sins of yesteryear. -- what are you, if not a woman turned stone to bear & bear forevermore for the sake of those you have learned to love more than your very self? Again & again predestined to sacrifice yourself ‘till final breath would leave parted lips. Brushing loss aside akin to a common bruise. Predestined to stand tall, to be the voice of wisdom, of reason, of strength found in the most sullen of nights; to pave the way for THEIR WARRIOR OF LIGHT. && never falter, never break for those they could yet save.  -- o, all this came over her in this very moment, haunting, clawing at her very heart. All this & more, all this & ceaseless worry / guilt / most bitter regret. An old, bleeding wound; a knife stuck / grown between her ribs torn out by a girl who was as innocent as she was guilty.

     There, a witch moves, slender hand reaching for the very cloak she never forgot to don. A gallant motion dispatched that tattered thing ere yet another followed aether sight’s guiding hand. Clumsily would she drape the cloth over other’s slumbering body, her shoal glimmer briskly brightening an otherwise blackened field of vision before vanishing ever so slightly. 

     Lo, a witch moves once more / freed from prior stupor, eager to continue the same evening routine [ever sleepless]. Fleeing her study, eloping into the sheltering night. To not return ‘till Urianger would wake the oracle in the morrow, parting ways with the Night’s Blessed sage once more. Without a word, without a second glance; running, hiding [hypocrite] midst whispering winds & roots & everything wild; to again permit herself a moment of solitude / weakness, to allow frenzied mind to return to its former work. -- turning to stone whilst ears listened to the soft buzzing of the Greatwood’s nocturnal life. 

[mirror-to-the-past]

A realization behind G'raha's line of "I want to visit Ishgard with you, properly," just hit me. When I first heard the line, I thought he was referring to when everyone was briefly there, and he met Estinien, and he felt a little jipped of the experience.

And, okay, maybe he was referring to that to some extent, but I COMPLETELY forgot that he HAD visited Ishgard before then. When? Why, when it was being put under fire during his time involved with the Eighth Umbral Calamity timeline, and he was rushing to read Edmont's memoir in order to find a good time to pull the WOL from the other timeline. You know, because the WOL and everyone else was dead and all.

I watched the damn cutscene again (SHB 77) where the Ironworks guy G'raha was with was telling him to hurry up while he was inside Edmont's former study, and the Ironworks dude was like 'Wow, the rate things are going, bunch of Ishgard's landmarks are toast,' and poor G'raha just responds "Is there nothing we can do?" The man's a historian, on top of losing everything else, he must've been heartbroken to see this city of so much historical relevance falling to pieces around him.

So yeah, he wanted to visit Ishgard, properly. At a time where famous locations are still intact, and the people he wanted to speak with aren't dead and gone. A distinct reminder that, it's all been worth it, after everything is said and done.

[elfyourmother]

@kunstpause yeah re: Blizzard’s fuckery, the problem is WoW really had no viable competition for the longest time and they rested on its success and it didn’t matter how terrible the shit they were shoveling out was, where were people really going to go? then you had people like me who basically quit playing years ago but held onto subs because of sunk cost fallacy/nostalgia (I literally kept mine towards the end just to look up things for my fanfic lmao)

but everything they’ve been doing for the last 5 or so years in particular with that game has really smacked of desperation to me because they’ve been bleeding subs like crazy and need to staunch that somehow. that’s how you get shit like trying to bring Illidan back and vanilla servers and all this nonsense. this latest thing is just vile though and healthy games don’t do that. the difference in philosophy is so stark and it’s not to say SE is perfect and yoshida can do no wrong. but even with their mistakes and missteps there is a genuine love of the player base that you never saw with wow. Can you imagine any of those ding dong bros sticking themselves into the game to thank their players once a year? (rather than just putting self inserts to fuck blue chicks). I think a lot of that is certainly down to cultural differences but also failing so spectacularly out of the gate the way xiv did I think had a way of making SE humble. yoshi p & team are immensely grateful for that second chance and it shows. For all the cash shop jokes we make, we’re not treated as walking wallets.

on top of all this it’s been very obvious for a long time now that XIV has blizz scared like no other competing MMO ever has. back in the day everyone used to crow about the hot new mmo being a wow killer and none of them ever were, it was a running joke even. Conan, Warhammer, etc were all supposed to kill wow. The only game that’s even still around of that lot and was moderately successful is GW. but XIV is the one that’s going to do it though, it already has the knife to the jugular and that was obvious to me even back in Stormblood but especially now

nowadays all you see even on my small server are sprouts with Azeroth derivative names and every other day on reddit there’s a “I’m a wow refugee” thread. like I said I noticed this during SB even when I was new but ShB really accelerated it. I think it’s a combo of the critical acclaim it’s gotten and bofa being the nadir of the game according to everyone ever. It was like the perfect storm of factors. I really don’t think XIV will stay #2 in numbers for much longer. I don’t think anything will reach the numbers Blizz had at wow’s peak just because the market is so much more saturated now and mmorpgs have largely been supplanted in mainstream popularity by battle royales. But XIV will definitely catch them it’s just a matter of time

[astrxealis]

i miss the times back in shadowbringers. don’t get me wrong i love how things are in endwalker but there was just ?? something so magical about shb to me ???

[semi-imaginary-place]

patch 6.3(?) they changed sohr khai again!! this is the third version of the hvresvelgar fight i have done since i started playing in 2019? 2020? devs really cant decide what they what from that fight.

why do i seem to recall hvresvelgar recovering his eye. when does he do that....

ah i'd love to study aymeric under microscope. reminds me of that catherine shamir support in fe3h. between ishgard and estinien he'd choose ishgard and between estinien and himself he'd choose estinien.

still so incredibly funny how hard aymeric tried to quit being king so they made him prime minister instead.

ok yeh hvras got his eye back

doing the international trading quests released in 5.x and yeah wow the new writers didn't check up on gridania lore. tbf the story never engaged with gridsnian politics but yeah gridania is ruled by a nobility class thats mostly hyur and kann-e through a coup and declared herself supreme benevolent dictator. wait did they edit emmaelain's storyline? i remember when i first played it 3.3 ended with him taking over camp dragonhead but now he's traveling the continent? well i do think it suits him better. weird to see ffxiv as a living story where the writers are constantly rewriting old drafts. messes with my head you know constantly needed to relearn supposed old facts. oh no... taking count durendaire into the mateus quicksands...

odd choice for xephatol duty support to be with house fortemps knights instead of the nameless scion npcs that usually join you. wtf did they do to this dungeon

played through more of the 5.x ishgard quests. oh yeah these feel like shb quests. like at the point in the msq where it unlocks 3.3 all the hw is recent like the ink is barely drying on the new government papers so it feels a little early to reminisce especially the part with raubaun and illberd. like its a nice line but at that point in the msq the player doesn't even know the lengths illberd will go like the player doesn't know that he's the griffin and has been rallying for ala mhigan independence for months or that he's planning on summoning a primal (still idk how summoning rhalgar turned into a doman dragon) so the talk of his despair as he saw raubaun sitting pretty and doing nothing is cheapened a bit. also everyone is talking about putting down the sword and the garleans are right there like sure you might not be actively attacked anymore but there is definitely still a need for soldiers

The ishgardian restoration firmament quest line and emmanellain msq quests clash especially badly. They happen at about the same time with the firmament quests unlocking after 3.3. So you have all these quests about ishgardians leaving the war behind, putting down the sword and taking up the plow right at he same time that emmanellain the dude least suited to fighting takes up the sword and a military position. Emmanellain hates being a soldier and he's bad at it, what he is good at is networing, connecting and knowing people, and social affairs. We see this during the firmament quests themselves where he connects us with uldah merchants. This is what he's good at so putting him in the military is not only a disaster but also a waste of his talents. Its just so jarring to see the quests deliverying a message about ishgard healing and then seeing emmanellaingo in the exact opposite direction and against this message. He really would be best off as list a radio talk show host giving the hot news of the day, writing for a magazine, and organizing community/firmament events.

[astrxealis]

it is so weird being a mentor now ... ;O

( tags got really sentimental at the end WHEEZE beware if you check T___T )

[astrxealis]

okay i’m rambling a lot about ffxiv rn and it went from elidibus -> endwalker -> this is (now) thancred

[astrxealis]

i find it really interesting and a bit sentimental to see people going through msq for the first time bcs wow it's been a while since i've been there!!!

but also . KEEHKD it is also Intriguing to see people take really long with doing msq ... bcs yeah i took a bit longer with. arr-hw but MAN stb. finished in around less than 10 days and same with shb! though shb patches i was a bit lazy with >_< i finished enw in around less than 10 days too ..... aagghh help

[semi-imaginary-place]

yorha raids

wow pc is getting sassy here. really should fire that guard. wow look at that animation budget. i realize this is a cameo thing. but eulmore totally would have noticed a giant city on the other side of their island with their airships. oh both twins have good arguments, 2p shouldn't be trusted (although idk why they're trusting me), and 2p is their best source of knowledge. the map is useless. they used the alliance map but allow access to areas off the map. oddly somber carvinal music but ok. god those balloons. they're so pastel in contrast all the surrounding brown that they look like they're fluorescing.

ok 2p's evil and a machine. and other white humanoid machines attacked komra? why what do they gain from that. or was it actually androids and 2p infected them or something. either way the attack is the machines/androids fault. the dwarves deserve to be mad yeah their village got turned to rubble and people are dead/dying. konogg and anogg could have take more precautions but it's not like they blew up the village. anogg's taking this hard.

i wonder where that secret dwarf tunnel is. we literally took the longest mead trip. there's 2 other towns along the way to stilltide. also Wright was the one where we had the whole... ale? questline and is famous for brewed drinks. writers didn't talk to each other.

oh the ball's back. i don't like that. huh pushed their little brother out of the way of a falling boulder, two pairs of siblings. i did get spoiled on this like most of shb. good tie in with 5.0's themes of loss, death, and grief. the angel script is probably there to look cool but oof yikes the drakengard knowledge. so anogg likely got crushed by a boulder pushing konogg out of the way but he finds her gloves and and hat down the cliff leading him to what looks like the machine hive ball thing which turns into a copy of anogg and like scans him or something and learns how to talk. which raises the questions where did machine anogg go? back to being an orb? actually when was the last time we say (orb) anogg, she was with us for puppet's bunker and then afterward with the angry mob when her guilt really got to her did she run back to the alien ship and revert to orb? im sorry you found both of them in that same tunnel originally? double orb?

boy can't stay away from the orb. then it covers itself with angelic and spawns more 2ps. hey's there's (replica) anogg she brought 2b and 9s and tells us to destroy the sphere. oh great another ominous tower. anogg comments it's too late. anogg's not coming back from this.

orb hatched. it's a girl!. music is good as always but wow is it meaningless. devola and popola for the twin guardians which kinda fits. but kaine for the red girl 2b chimera? ah i remember seeing clips of this on twitter. yup god is evil and hates you in drakengard. i wonder how canon this is wouldn't put it past troll lord taro.

so in the end they all had to go no matter who went first.

replica anogg totally had this entire journey of self discovery and existential crisis offscreen.

i wonder what this means. i she telling konogg she's gone to another world, remembering orb world, or did she really go on an adventure while gone.

"Death! Mutilation" yikes we got a lynch mob its better that konogg skipped town. wow maybe the throlls were right.

and then i disconnected.

we're getting 1 dwarf tribe faction quests. they should have just done 1. oh not tribe quests. devs are just forcing us to wait a month irl. they should have made warp points for the raid not just return.

the story isn't complete but from here's I'd say this is one of the better side quest lines. that said i remember first joining ffxiv during the 5.x patch cycle and watching this this because i never planned on playing shb at that point. and seeing it on it's own, sure it's hype but it doesn't tell a full story certainly no where near taro's words (yes even dod1).