What would the FFXIV OST would look like if you mapped it out and drew lines between the songs that share motifs?

Take a peek and find out. 🎶

Some numbers:

There are 471 songs and 477 individual motifs in this chart at time of publishing

There are 567 instances of motifs appearing in other songs (so far)

22 motifs are established in 1.0, 43 in ARR, 19 in HW, 16 in StB, 13 in ShB, and 20 in EW

There are only four degrees of separation between "A Sailor Never Sleeps", the Limsa Lominsa night theme, and "The Final Day", which plays during the final 6.0 trial???

Good news for grape enjoyers 🍇

please save my girl from sohm al duty support please she would not condone this

ONE MORE NOTE ABT THE HW RANTING. I think it would’ve hit really really hard on the Dravanian front and been an amazing plot beat if Estinien was actually made to confront the reality that his profession as a dragoon and identity as a dragonslayer (which is so integral to his sense of self-worth he made it his surname and he can’t imagine himself as anything else) has ripped Dravanian families apart and left Dravanian children parentless and killed Dravanian children in droves and sowed the exact same tragedies and never-ending pain as he has experienced from Nidhogg onto innocents and their homes just like him who have gone to war in their rage just like him and he is made to confront the reality that in his violence and his rage he and Nidhogg are one and the same and how his role in perpetuating this violence reflects back onto his sense of self and the inherent horror of how the Ishgardian church has so thoroughly used his anger to propagandize him into dehumanizing sentient beings with deep, rich lives into beasts to murder instead of him just going. ok. and immediately racing 10km to the right to punch Nidhogg in the face

like even the pure cruelty of specifically targeting Nidhogg's mate and murdering her in a sacred place all just to 'weaken' or otherwise personally hurt Nidhogg. And it's handwaved bc Tioman is a Dravanian Horde dragon and thus doesn't need to be treated with any nuance.

sorry I'm whinging about these dungeons again bc I just hate them

> /ʟᴏᴠᴇʜᴇᴀʀᴛ

my serious hcs abt estinen’s trauma re: his scarring versus my right brain’s desire to see every artist make him undergo sluttification right now this instant: fight

> /ʟᴏᴠᴇʜᴇᴀʀᴛ

iirc ferndale was pretty close to ishgard anyway so while I think he has an accent and a local language I don't think it's that out there. rouvastre however lived way out in the boonies and is essentially unintelligible probably to the average standard city ishgardian in dialect and probably had no choice but to switch

try not to think about how estinien is the only living person who remembers and speaks ferndale's local dialect

Defiant to the Last

rouvastre's version of the boyfriend sweater is stealing estinien's slutty leather pants out of his closet all the time

Poll for fellow FFXIV players:

What are your thoughts on people who have macro texts with their actions in battle? Things like a WHM having a Raise macro like "Now raising <target name>!"

If I miss an option, feel free to speak your piece in the post's comments.

(Ay it's my first poll!)