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Level numbers are always really funny to me cause with a game that gets new expansions you'll inevitably get situations where The Godlike Embodiment of Entropy and Suffering is 10 levels weaker than Some Critter on a Dirt Road in the new map
Ko-fi bust commission of Rai (commission for @robynamethyst)
Happy (early) Dawntrail and thank you for the support!
I finished Dawntrail last night, & I know it hasn't been out long, so I wanted to get these thoughts out now. Spoilers under the cut.
The entire time that I was playing through Alexandria, I was thinking about Myste, our darling little boy that wanted to help people. I was thinking about how similar the situation with Myste & Sphene were, of course what Sphene is doing is on a much MUCH larger scale, but still. Both of them wanted a world where people don't have to suffer loss, or pain, or grief, they love people so much. They also both use memories to bring the dead back, though Sphene does so by holding the person's memories of life, while Myste uses the memories of their loved ones.
I personally couldn't get my character to become emotionally attached to most of the endless, not completely. He wanted to help them let go, to finally sleep & rest, but he did not grieve for them, he did not feel guilty about their erasure. Because he's done this, maybe not with his own hands, but a part of him has done this process before, he knows how this goes, that it isn't more than a dream, unrealistic. He snapped at Sphene in one scene due to this headspace, as I imagine he's upset she didn't realize how pointless this endeavor is like he had. Though, then maybe she didn't have anyone left close to her to stop her anymore, how lonely she must have been, trying to protect everyone.
Hey there
I'm putting together a static for Dawntrail, a chill LGBT+ static, not being pushy about clearing fights quickly (ex trials, raids, whatever we all feel like doing). We need 2 healers and 2 DPS. You don't need a lot of experience raiding or anything. (DMs open). ~ <3
Real life pictomancer plays FFXIV!!!
Hey, I'm live doing msq and the pictomancer quest.
Come hang out, tell your friends! ~ <3
Livestreaming Dawntrail!
Real life pictomancer plays FFXIV!!!
Hey, I'm live doing msq and the pictomancer quest.
Come hang out, tell your friends! ~ <3 https://www.twitch.tv/destinnybunny
I'm live!
Doing the rest of the pictomancer quest and getting started on Dawntrail msq! Come hang out in chat https://www.twitch.tv/destinnybunny ~ <3
More Dawntrail shenanigans!
I'm live, making progress on Dawntrail, I might be getting close to the first trial. :3 Come hang out ~ <3 https://www.twitch.tv/destinnybunny
DAWNTRAIL
This is it, I'm about to reach the end of current Dawntrail MSQ in FFXIV.
Dawntrail static (CLOSED/FULL)
My group needs more members, it's a chill, casual LGBT+ static, not being pushy about clearing fights quickly (EX trials, raids, whatever we all feel like doing). Currently learning M1S. No parsing. We only need 1 DPS. You don't need a lot of experience raiding or anything. (DMs open).
Our schedule is Tuesday and Wednesday at 8PM PST.
~ <3
Viper questline live!
I'm doing more viper stuff live! I might do role quests too. Come hang out ~ <3
You know... having played some more... Why didn't we get to see the brave soul that laid with Gulool Ja Ja to make Zoraal Ja. I want the story behind that. Cause like. Gulool Ja Ja my have Strenght ans Wisdom, but the wife definetly have courage.
I hope the size difference crowd out there is ready.
Reblogging because my thought were way too long to put into a comment. I will try to keep it organised into point.
1. Their whole technology relie on soul and soul usage. Their knowledge and manipulation of it have to be on a total different level than ours.
2. Taking our souls out of our bodies isn't that difficult. It happen, quite often actually. But generally, the process used is offensive in nature, since it's to seal the being or steal its body, or use it for nefarious purposz, like zombie. Also let's remember that The exarch was not only trying to drag soul through the dimmensionnal rift but also fuck with time on the Source on top. Oh and also, he didn't really have them in his lune of sight, knowing where they are and "know" their souls.
3. The reason it was so risky with the scions was 3 fold:
- time discrepancy between their body and their soul. Alisaie and Alphinaud are good example. They are three years older, yet their body just aged a month or so.
- Aether discrepancy. Without necessary becoming a Sin eater, they did interact and evolved in a very Light rich aether world, in contrast of the more balanced one of the Source and this has to have influenced them somewhat. More light than they had when their soul/body where together.
- Finally, the souls need to cross the dimensionnal barrier... 2 times.
4. Teleportation and aetheryte network, if we're accurate to lore is actually a form of soul manipulation. You change your physical aether into soul aether, ride the current until your destination and then materialize again. Hell, our trip down the aithascope is us in soul form.
5. And finally, and that's what actually make me see it as maybe lore breaking, the simulation we interacted with maybe a form of advanced VR. But that stipulate that this simulation is working on different methods than Omega and Omicron one. Because you could access these one in a processus not too different from aetheryte teleportation.
5.2. Another possibility, is that it's further proof that all of the simulation was really just a very advanced simulation doing preedictive pattern extrapolated from the memories of people. There was no consciouness inside, and no simulated realm, the aether was merely used to power very complex calculation, and what we saw was merely how we interpreted it.
Omicron, on the other hand, would emulate an artificial realm/dimension, and the difference would stem from the fact there is soul and pseudo soul inside.
Sorry this got long
Overall, I liked Dawntrail as an expansion. The story is fun, especially the first half, the dungeons and raids have some interesting and novel mechanics, and I think they managed to do well with Wuk Lamat what they struggled to pull off with Lyse in Stormblood.
But the number of lore-breaking moments in it are driving me nuts. Setting aside even the timeline shenanigans, which I GUESS can be handwaved as "time doesnt always line up between the Source and its reflections" (heavy sigh)
The thing that really sticks in my craw is that we're apparently able to just. Choose to leave our bodies? And put our souls into the Meso Terminal?? And Cahciua just happens to have a plan ready to let us do this?
Like, there's a lot of lore already established about how bloody hard it is to safely separate your soul from your body. It's Aulus mal Asina's whole ~thing~. It's literally the entire premise of Shadowbringers, pre-, during, and post- patch quests. It took G'raha world shattering spells and the power of the Crystal Tower to drag souls out of their bodies and across the rift, and even if you want to explain that away as "that's not what he was actually trying to do, so maybe soul separation is easier than that" (and ignoring Aulus's whole storyline again), we see just how difficult and risky it is to try to transfer souls during the ShB post patch quests, where we have 3 whole patches dedicated to safely trying to transfer the Scions' souls back to their bodies.
Like I don't know about you, but my Warrior of Light heard the plan was "take your souls out of your bodies, shove them into the giant computer tower, and leave Erenville (untrained in combat) out here to watch over your empty shells" and went, "Nope. Nuh-uh. No thanks." (Before being forced into it anyway)
WoL as the pictomancer
Pose reference is from @jookpubstock
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FFXIV: Dawntrail
Also known as "directly attack Shu for burning out by implementing several different things that are Entirely His Aesthetic, Plus Hrothgirls."
Goddammit it ain't fair. Even the Mandervilles are comin' out swingin' at me! /sobs in relic final stages
in lieu of recent events... *ha hem*
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