the award for the worst dialogue in ffxiv GOES TO...........
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Welcome to the family, Zeno!
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Sailing Ship at Sea (detail) by Michael Zeno Diemer
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how Zenos feels like from the perspective of my lalafell XD
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Zenos yae Galvus
I'm tired of this human duet
No civilizing hides
Our animal impulses
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I am fingers crossing that by increasing the opacity on the top I can avoid flagging but lets find out
together
BUT ANYWAY
there was another FFXIV Gala event on twitter that I participated in and since the theme was Fairytales and I am someone who looks for any excuse to bring up my favorite folktale, I had to pay homage to Prince Lindworm by depicting Zenos as the titular Lindworm and Earley as the shepherd’s daughter.
You can read the folktale here!
There’s also a process video available for Patrons! (which I try to do with all my illustration pieces)
Design notes below the cut for interested folks
The goal with Zenos' outfit was to communicate shedding skin, with each layer getting more raw. So its a matte wool suit layered with shiny red satin and the underlayer being soft velvet (originally the suit had iridescent sequins sewn near the cuffs to imply scales but I couldn’t find a way to depict it nicely, though I think it would look stellar IRL)
Earley's was heavily inspired by Queera Wang's gender neutral wedding designs, which also worked well with the layered "fine shifts" in the story. Other elements minorly borrowed from folk designs (it was a stronger influence earlier in the design but a lot of it got discarded) and I’m very sad her boots could not be shown off in the final composition
there's also...another theme in the designs but I think you can figure that out~
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