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starlightnest · 2 months

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Remembered I had a ffxiv blog, and I can use it to spread my horrible little theories onto the web.

(EW spoilers, including the tank role quests)

Here's my hot take:

Gridania is an Ascian plot.

Hear me out.

Gridania was founded when a person named Jorin arrived in Gelmorra, teaching the people to commune with the elementals and causing an exodus up onto the surface.

Before the EW tank quests name him as Jorin, he is called The Masked Emissary. His mask is what the wood wailer masks/the low level masks are based on. His children then become the first padjals.

So a masked emissary arrives out of nowhere to teach a struggling people powerful and strange magics, and has children with traits that mark them as not quite Normal Humans.

Who do we know that fit that bill?

Hello Elidibus!

(I know Emet-Selch is the one with the utterly enormous superpowered kids/grandkids, but it's clearly an Ascian thing)

But why would he do that? What is to be gained from teaching humans to commune with the elementals?

To stop Gelmorra from pulling a Ronka.

In the first we find the ruins of Ronka, a largely subterranean city-state in the shard's Black Shroud renowned for their stonework and warding magic.

Who used that magic to bind the Great Spirits and force them to sit in time out until they learned to behave, turning them from the tempramental and arbitrary bastards we know and loathe from the Source into allies for mankind.

A setback to be sure, but the First is slated for the flood of light anyway. Oh well!

But what if the eerily similar Gelmorra were to do the same on the much more important Source?

So instead, Elidibus does what ascians do best: he shows up and teaches them a new magic. The ability to speak with the Elementals. To negotiate with them. To aquiesce to their demands.

Make mankind subservient to them before they can tame them.

#This one is really good and I'm taking it into my many hcs thank you op #ffxiv theory #ffxiv lore #endwalker spoilers #anti-gridania hours is 24/7 indeed #I just need to kick an elemental

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starlightnest · 9 months

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closer by nine inch nails is just irrevocably lahabrea coded to me now i'm sorry for everything i choose to be. last rb relevant,

#thank goodness someone said it #Listen that brainworm has been living inside of me for too long and I was gaslighting myself #You're not alone in this #big brain moment yes yes #I'm going to stop rambling before I get too weird #lahabrea #text post

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starlightnest · 10 months

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"Believe, and walk in faith. Let the light of your soul shine for all to see."

Available as a print, keychain and bookmark on my SHOP!

#final fantasy xiv #ffxiv #not my art #hythlodaeus #Hyth bb

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starlightnest · 10 months

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#ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #not my art #elidibus #ffxiv themis #my beautiful baby #if they had gave us the “say my name” in a voiced cutscene I would have perished

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starlightnest · 10 months

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Was it you who I’ve been searching for?

Spent my life alone and waited for?

So tenderly and endlessly

You made me whole, you made me whole

-Zero, Case Study of Vanitas

I just….them… Their story is one of my favorites now ngl. I loved the raids and just…Erich. My brother in shitty family, let me hold you. Or let Themis do it.

#ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #not my art #elidibus #themis ffxiv #erichthonios ffxiv #My babies #I love them so much

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starlightnest · 10 months

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You know what makes Aymeric and Haurchefant special?

Despite having every reason to be cold, vengeful, mean and selfish people-being bastards, living in a house they weren't born to, growing up in an environment as hostile as Ishgard, having inherent beliefs different to everyone around them- they still chose to be kind.

I think it takes something away from them if we assume they were simply born with a kinder deposition.

Haurchefant was bullied by all of Ishgard, including his step mother, for being a Greystone. Aymeric was adopted and has really low self esteem because he probably grew up hearing how ill deserving he is of everything he got by being adopted into house Borel. Yet they both made a conscious choice to be better. They wanted to treat others the way they wanted to be treated themselves. They wanted to love and invite change when Ishgard taught hate and stagnation.

This is why the warrior of light would've failed in doing everything they did if it wasn't for Haurchefant and Aymeric. How many warriors of light have tried helping Ishgard before us? Over hundreds of years of war, this revolution can't have been the only one. Yet it was during our lifetime that the stars aligned perfectly to have Haurchefant aid us and Aymeric lead us into changing Ishgard for the better and bring about peace.

Without Haurchefant, we'd have ended up in prison and possibly executed (he saves us again by taking a blow meant for us) and we wouldn't have been let into Ishgard. And without Aymeric's trust over his best friend he wouldn't have let us go to Dravania and afterwards, invite the reality shattering truth about his ancestors' actions and usher Ishgard to peace and unity.

Everyone hails the Warrior of Light as the antithesis to bad with absolute power. That, if they're there, everything is solved. But without Haurchefants and Aymerics, the Warrior of Light would be nothing and would not be able to solve half the problems they have solved.

#ffxiv #text post #final fantasy xiv #yessss yesssssss #Aymeric #Haurchefant

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starlightnest · 10 months

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Hello new followers!!! Emet + Fer appreciation

#ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #not my art #emet selch #emetwol #You have no idea how happy it made me to find that I was already following you here in the middle of the weekly twitter debacle #I know that I could have just checked but I'm a mess #Anyway I love how you draw Emet he's just so tired #You capture the old-sad-tired-man-who-has-lived-thousands-of-years feeling

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starlightnest · 10 months

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yall know the feeling when you're reading a fanfiction and you read a line/dialog that's just so beautiful that you rethink all your life choices and want to start being a better person so you just stare at it like: