I'm happy to announce my new writing project for my fic: I'm going to be writing a large overview/summary that covers all the major events from the start of A Realm Reborn all the way up through Ultima Thule.
Despite being a summary, I'm going to put a lot of work into editing it in the form of followable prose so that it's still interesting to read. It will be 40 chapters. I have no idea if they're going to be comparable in length to HtGHA chapters, but let's assume yes — if so, this undertaking will probably take me at least 40 weeks to complete. I was thinking of sketching out a quick and messy outline by the end of 2025, but I think making a more comprehensive outline will be better for me for reference use as I write my actual fic. Therefore, I'm making this my 2026 project (hopefully alongside finishing HtGHA — though that would mean more than 1 chapter per week).
Very rough chapter overview under the cut:
1.0
Gridania opening MSQ
Limsa Lominsa opening MSQ
Ul'dah opening MSQ
Lleidspaer hunts down the Hollow Barons, learns about Seal Rock, and goes through Sastasha.
Nia'a hunts down the Lambs of Dalamud, learns about the Wildlings, and goes through Tam-Tara.
Vivimani hunts down the Alacran, learns about Niellefresne, and goes through Copperbell.
Waking Sands, Little Solace, looking for Cid
Camp Drybone, Little Ala Mhigo, and Ifrit
Reforming the Company of Heroes, the Wanderer's Palace, and Pharos Sirius
Titan, the attack on the Waking Sands, and meeting the Twins
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"It is a shame that the incident at Seal Rock fifteen years past led to the shuttering of the Musketeers' Guild. Limsa Lominsa's marksmanship skills were second to none, at the time (though the Garleans came close). I am grateful to Sthalmann for reviving the discipline in Ishgard."
"Of course, merely fighting for the star is not enough. One must choose one's battles and plan meticulously for their execution. The battle is won or lost in the blink of an eye, but life's burden lies in the planning, the cleanup, the logistics, and, of course, tending to the wounded."
"It is said that a sailor never sleeps 'til the day she returns to the tide. The Admiral has likewise vowed to fight until her last breath, until sea swallows all. From the day I enrolled in the Arcanists' Guild, I have lived these ideals. I shall not rest, not so long as the star has need of me."
"Limsa Lominsa has no traditional swordcraft of its own. Instead, it borrows from all the traditions its sailors meet across the sea, from Hingashi to Dravania to Thavnair. The recent trend among sailors, swashbucklers, and rogues is the Turali discipline of dual-wielding."
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Loporrits when they're actually prepared for Apocalypse
so, obviously the Final Days was a non-issue really but its so much of not-a-real-problem (out of universe) that the the actual Anti-Apocalypse IN-universe measure was … not reassuring. the loporrits didn't know basic facts like: the etheirysans' HEIGHT. (so the Burrow is unnecessarily huge to accommodate Amarout-era people) or what a forest looked like (gives me a stroke). they didn't have more food than carrots. their only contacts were Sharlayans so the evacuee pool would be small due to recent 'these people are warmongers' bias (not hydaelyn's intent) and Namingway was apparently the only boots on the ground person and they (Namingway) didn't actually talk to people AND THEN they missed the entirety of Endwalker O(-( also: if they presumed the ancients were twenty fulms tall why are the loporrits the size of flies?! or FLEAS?! (rather: hydaelyn, why are they so small) the only thing that seemed to be halfway decent was Smileton / the apartments and even that was a mess. 😠anyway, so this is how i'd like it to go:
the Loporrits are always building space arks. they watch the population growth and adjust accordingly.
during the elemental era (the post-amarout world that gets wrecked by elemental calamities every 2000ish years), they visit often to record everything the people are doing and marking down their accomplishments, histories etc. so loporrits would be always appearing in every civilizations stories. so they have records from the first era.
they collect artifacts. they notice omega. they collect Allagan technology and their space ark program jumps forward centuries. I guess they'd be friends with dragons.
they have records of the lost 4th era and Allag and everything else because they had to launch a 'Save the Books' operation in the panick of the Earth Calamity (man, a back up of Earth's history would be nice…)
speaking of, they'd help out during every Calamity going: is this THE Calamity? is this the Final Days? no? well. might as well help anyway.
i have no idea what they would do with Dalamud's everything yet but they'd do something
so by the time, the Loporrits actually need to evacuate the world there would be no resistance; they'd have all the Arks they'd need because they had been tracking and calcuating the population through the eras and everyone would know because they've always been there and be in everyone's stories as 'bunnies from the moon sent by the gods' and they'd always be on disaster relief or something or at least trustworthy souls so they'd visit every country like: the Final Calamity is upon us it is time to go. (and they'd be able to separate enemies into separate arks if they needed to)
the Dairyu Moongates are literal; there's a structure inside and has a transport to the moon. it is not the only one. the Crystal Tower is probably one
"I never planned to be an adventurer. I was a soldier: a courier, a medic, a quartermaster, a general. But working for the Scions has brought me to horizons I could never have dreamed of, and seeing the vastness of the world has only made me more determined to protect it."
"Of course, merely fighting for the star is not enough. One must choose one's battles and plan meticulously for their execution. The battle is won or lost in the blink of an eye, but life's burden lies in the planning, the cleanup, the logistics, and, of course, tending to the wounded."
4.0 but i dragged this dude back into the plot and gave him new clothes
in this rewrite instead of just. Disappearing. his aether would be slowly be siphoned away because of his gambit. and i can imagine it’d be devastating for a caster. i can imagine him being stubborn at first and kept magicking away until it started threatening his life. this would let him to transition to a more behind-the-scenes support role, perhaps as an advisor.
and with papalymo being forced in the backseats it would naturally let lyse grow up without him telling her what to do…
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"It is said that a sailor never sleeps 'til the day she returns to the tide. The Admiral has likewise vowed to fight until her last breath, until sea swallows all. From the day I enrolled in the Arcanists' Guild, I have lived these ideals. I shall not rest, not so long as the star has need of me."
It's been so interesting replaying Stormblood because I am remembering how much I actually like Zenos as a character in Stormblood. He's a good villain and in the long run he ends up saying some interesting things about the Garlean Empire. Viewed through the light of Stormblood, as much as I think his death was perfect and he might have been better left dead, I also can appreciate some of his role in Endwalker, as the monster the empire created destroying the empire from within, because in attempting to create the perfect soldier-prince with unparalleled tactical mastery, the empire ended up creating a man with no personal investment in the empire and that is arguably the entire reason why the resistance wins and why Garlemald falls. That's interesting! I like it!
In fact I like Zenos far more in what he says about Garlemald and about empire than in anything he attempts to say about the Warrior of Light, and in fact the places where the story most tries to divorce Zenos from the politics of Garlemald are where I like the character the least. In light of the fact that we first encounter him in Stormblood while aiding resistance forces, the push to draw an equivalency between Zenos and the WoL becomes especially insulting regardless of intent. In that context it comes across as "Have you considered that doing violence in service of liberating an oppressed people from imperialism is actually very much like doing violence in the service of the empire? Really makes you think." Like. No it doesn't. Come on. Krile throwing up her hands and deciding it's worth sending Zenos after the WoL on the off chance that he might help is equally insulting for all the reasons tritoch details here. For the story to justify Zenos following the WoL to the literal end of the universe it also has to memory-hole previous plot points to have another character do something completely ridiculous.
What revisiting Stormblood has reminded me is that what Zenos's existence says about Garlemald is far more compelling to me than anything he has to say about the Warrior of Light as an individual. And looking at his later presence in the game through that lens really helps to highlight where it works for me and where it doesn't. It's a good example of how the game constantly needing to remind us that the player character is the most specialest person to ever exist actively makes other characters, themes, and storylines worse.
I had a lot of fun being part of the NPC Mini Bang event over at xivnpcbang.bsky.social the past few months, during which I got to draw this huge mural/comic of one of my favorite FFXIV characters, based on a story by @quillofevernight ! <3
Big thanks and kudos to the mods running the event and everyone who participated, this was a lot of fun (and now that I'm done, it's time to go catch up on all the art and fics 👀✨)
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