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birdblues · 9 months

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Violet-tailed Sylph

#violet tailed sylph #sylph #hummingbird #Aglaiocercus coelestis #Strisores #Apodiformes #Trochilidae #Aglaiocercus #bird #upl

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colorsoutofearth · 10 months

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Long-tailed sylph (Aglaiocercus kingii)

Photo by Fernando Burgalin Sequeria

#Aglaiocercus kingii #Aglaiocercus #long-tailed sylph #sylph #hummingbird #lesbiini #lesbiinae #south american birds #birds #blue #green #blue birds #green birds #tropical birds #nature #animals #wildlife #blue and green

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herpsandbirds · 6 months

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Violet-tailed Sylph (Aglaiocercus coelestis), male, family Trochilidae, endemic to the Choco region of Ecuador and Colombia

photograph by Jose/Tropical Birding Tours

#hummingbird #sylph #aglaiocercus #trochilidae #bird #ornithology #south america #animals #nature

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2ghosts · 2 years

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little sylph

#ffxiv #sylph #my art #perfect design

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oograths-pizza-and-chill · 2 months

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Here is your daily dose of (tears erupting from eye sockets)

#ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #final fantasy 14 #ff14 #noraxia #sylph #a realm reborn #arr

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lookbluesoup · 1 year

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So while I get that Gridanians live under these.... essentially toddler-gods who can afflict the entire territory with horrible plague, who will severely punish well-intentioned children that were manipulated by adults instead of the adult, and can't communicate their desires clearly, which leads the community to adopt a lot of hostility to change, paranoia, hate and even violence toward outsiders, etc...

Unless there's more explanation for this I haven't found? I know I'm not 100% up to speed on everything Gridania, especially pre-ARR....

Keepers of the Moon were living in the Black Shroud outside of Gridanian authority, for generations, presumably not being laserbeamed out of existence. There would have been a lot going on outside of the Seedseer's effective reach, and there aren't Moonkeeper Padjal to make up the gap there, only Hyur get to be Padjal.

Miqo'te are described as traditionally being far more in tune with nature and eschewing things like major city developments and whatnot. They're predators, yes, but predators have a place and function in the natural balance of the world.

"Beast Tribes" are a made up word from Ul'dah to protect trade monopolies in Thanalan, and Miqo'te could easily have ended up on the wrong side of that label if the rich elites had wanted them barred from the city. Historically, they're a lot more "feral" than a lot of the other spoken races.

I mention all this because it's unlikely the Elementals divide people into Beast Tribes and Human Races. Sylph's aren't being deleted by the Elementals, either, despite certainly having no inclination to live like the Gridanians do and being fairly mischievous.

My point being... I wonder if maybe the Gridanians kind of brought the Greenwrath on themselves. A lot of the time. The same way that some IRL religious institutions preach hate in the name of a deity and stir paranoia and fear of eternal condemnation. They create sins where there didn't need to be... Justifying division and destruction and isolation out of fear (and thus a need for control), and actually creating their own problems.

Elementals might not care about a lot of the stuff Gridania does, its clear a few times when something bad happens to someone, even just getting sick, panic strikes that the Elementals are behind it and people act irrationally out of fear, like the IRL Salem Witch Trials.

If you look at places like Haukke Manor... a country living in balance with nature does not need massive monuments to vanity like that. And there's apparently a whole quarter devoted to mansions for nobility in Gridania (which the npc says we're not allowed to visit.) Why do you have that. Why do you think that promotes peace with the natural world.

There's Wood Wailers who talk about wanting to kill Moonkeepers on sight, just in case they're "poachers." That's sort of like killing wolves because they're predators. Outside of some genuine bad apples, though, a lot of what seems to drive actual Moonkeeper poachers AND Duskwight Elezen to banditry is a straight up need to survive. Gridania's essential demand that they have dictatorial rights over management of the forest leads them to disrupt these group's lives, sometimes with exceptional cruelty.

I know that "central authority" is kind of... not super really a thing for Gridania, power is pretty divided up and a lot of it seems to run on an honor system. But that seems to have led to a lot of Process Loss and enabled a lot of prejudice and abuse to run rampant. Especially now that the Elementals are weaker than pre-Calamity.

I guess basically I wonder if the reason Sylphs and traditional Moonkeeper clans managed to survive out there was because, unlike Gridania, they don't have social systems built from the ground up on fear and condemnation. They're not constantly LOOKING for reasons to think the Elementals hate them and someone to blame for it.

They just live "natural" lives, that aren't inherently dangerous to the overall balance of the forest ecosystem, and they don't have an entire religious/government body dedicated to trying to interpret vague impressions from the Elementals (this is a HORRIBLE system of government and EXTREMELY susceptible to personal prejudices/bias), so these non-Gridanians run into conflict with the Elementals far less often.

i.e. Moonkeeper kills a rabbit, uses the meat, skin, and bones, is behaving like a hunter, Elementals don't care. VERSUS Gridanian kills a rabbit, uses it the same way, but then a villager gets sick and their friends panic and they turn into a mob and punish the Gridanian, Elementals didn't care but now they're a little pissy bc you're disrupting the forest with your insanity.

Basically... Gridania is the real affront to the Elementals, their very infrastructure and their culture of micromanaging the forest and constantly looking for scapegoats, kind of flies in the face of actually living in balance with nature. The Elementals aren't omnipotent or a unified group, and seem to struggle to understand human minds anyway, so they're trying to work with this city-state and have established some kind of partnership, but Gridania is really its own worst enemy.

#ffxiv #ff14 #miqote #gridania #keeper of the moon #elementals #padjal #sylph #seedseer #duskwight #lore #meta #shower thoughts #text #long post

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hallalaween · 1 year

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Came to FFXIV for the MMO--stayed for the Sylphs. Love these cabbages. uwu

#ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #final fantasy 14 #ff14 #sylph

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laladventures · 11 days

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Lalapril Day 17 - Storm

Ramuh and the Sylph ⚡

#lalapril #lalapril 2024 #ramuh #sylph #storm #ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #lalafells #lalafell #ff14 #final fantasy 14 #ffxiv glamour #my wol

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bebemoon · 4 months

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look for the name: SYLPH

@blubbingbeautifully

{beauty} from alexander mcqueen's "highland rape" collection, a/w 1995

ana mendieta's untitled work from "the fetish series" (1977)

full-length red and pink sheer veils w/ headpieces to give height and pointed shape @ central saint martens menswear a/w 2o18

yiqing yin fragile liquid organza panel embroidered with silk threads "with the node point technique" to form the silhouette of a woman

valdrin sahiti "look o3", resort 2o23

di petsa "the water broke" presentation, a/w 2o2o

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dal0nelypineapple · 3 months

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Sylph!!!

I’m so normal about their design

#artists on tumblr #artwork #digital art #fanart #bound smp #sylph

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possiblyawesometmblr · 1 month

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is sylph kissable?

SO kissable

i need you to know when we were discussing character designs, "has to be kissable" was one of the first details i threw in about sylph

#i wanted to play a kissable guy!!#ari's ace and my upcoming guy is a child #i needed ONE kissable one #sylph #sylph bound smp #bound smp #sky bound smp

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oldschoolfrp · 1 year

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“The Folk of the Faerie Kingdom” are now more often known as the fey. (Robert Klasnich from Vince Garcia’s article in Dragon 155, March 1990) “While faeries of all sorts can see and venture through the otherwise invisible gates into the Faerie Realm, only Rhiannon’s messengers (the sylphs) may shift between planes at will.”