ffxiv 4.0 yanxia

uh water flows downhill to the sea. if the ruby sea is NE why are the mountain streams flowing down from that direction. and if we are far inland away from the sea why do i hear sea birds. well actually you do find inland seagulls.

gosetsu when trying to keep a low profile: yells at an entire village to announce his presence.

i wonder how long that kojin water charm lasts.

depending on just how long ago the failed rebellion was, some of them might not have been executed yet. idk how efficient the garlean bureaucracy is

omg we have a cover story. we are so bad at this. really should have gone with the mercenary story

and we were so concerned with ishin. but its the same or worse a situation in namai. if we free the captured villagers, the garleans will know that it was this village that was interfered with, its easy to track, and any retribution will fall on them. it puts an interesting contrast between gosetsu who is outwardly loud but chose not to directly face the imperials and yugiri who has a calm demeanor but would not allow the villagers to work to death even if it endangered their village.

the shinobi tradition is from the hidden mountain villages and yugiri is from the secret sea village, how'd she become a ninja? it really is a strange choice at all to make her come from sui no sato since up until now and even now in the story yugiri has been the most prominent representative of doma both as the player's only real connection to doma as also as an advocate for the resistence. But it sounds like she came to Doma as an adult so when the villager talk about the party not knowing their suffering this adds another layer as yugiri didn't grow up under imperial rule. like this could be an interesting take, irl people can and do change national allegience, but i worry this will not be addressed at all.

so yugiri isn't exactly fighting for doma. yeah i get the feeling this is once again a case of different writers having radically different visions for a character. the 2.x writers clearly intended her to represent doma for the players. and this whole sui no nato backstory was written by a different writer who wanted something else for yugiri's character. It really feels like 2 characters sharing 1 name. one yugiri who is fully devoted to hien and doma, and one from sui no sato. Again, they could pull this off and fully integrate these two sides to her character but I haven't seen it yet. The other part of this was that 2.x yugiri seemed much older like mid thirties and an established leader. 4.0 yugiri feels much younger which makes me wonder at the timeline. because if is is young and she trained as a shinobi away in the mountains then she might have spent next to zero time in doma which undermines her characterization in 2.x and her writing thus far.

it would make more sense if hien was yugiri's secret childhood friend, or perhaps if he isn't her story doesn't make sense.

I get the feeling that stormblood is setting up for a Return of the Rightful King arc with Doma and I get it and all but ugggggggg even ishgard, ISHGARD! got rid of their totalitarian regime, and Hien already seems supportive of like popular vote and democracy and the old Doma is over this would be the perfect opportunity to abolish the monarchy. narratively the devs could frame it as the people finding their will to fight and live independently, decide their future themselves instead of garlemald deciding for them. which is what this whole first arc in doma has been about. but noo… this is probably going to end up with another monarchy.

an arc I would really like to see is one where we incite half the imperial army to defect. Its already established that most of them are conscripts from other occupied areas, a lot of them don't want to be there. its free real estate, soldiers who would rather be at home. like there is an interesting layer of complexity there that the game seems reluctant to delve into that those who were invaded and subjugated would then enact that same violence on other people. instead ffxiv tends to simplify this to the blacks and white of imperial vs rebel.

I will say I do like how all the main characters are women, another case of didn't realize what was missing until it was back, hw needs more women. Lyse is essentially the main character of the ala mhigo arc and yugiri is the main character of the doma arc so far. I do like how these stories are centered around them. and then the other major character is alisaie, its good to see her again after bahamut.

2nd zenos encounter: about what i expected. villagers fighting is very symbolic and very stupid. before gosetsu said he wasnt stepping in

yeah I was thinking about the logistics of this too. carvellain's ship sure looked empty enough but that could have been a graphics/asset thing. probably could at least get all the ninja over. between the la noscea gang and the scions gang we'd have a few dozen at least.

the geography still confuses me. the ruby sea NE. the water in the river is flowing east. so doma is more inland/west of namai? weird how there's fog when its sunny but those fog clouds disappear when its raining.

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