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Okay. As long as I'm thinking about FFXIV today, here's a question for my fellow players. If you have played and have a decent memory of most (if not all) of the base ARR starting jobs, I'd be curious to know!
Which starter job has the most lore relevant (or lore interesting) story? And/or, which job gives you the most context for the world at large?
... no, there's no bald option, and I know if I open it up to anything beyond base game this will turn into more waxing poetic about the DRK storyline, which is legit but not the question I'm asking. I'm more curious about what starter class you think provides the most immersion into the overall ARR story, if any!
But when [Lahabrea] and [Emet-Selch] tried to destroy the Heart of [Azem] it laughed at them.
It said, "This Heart is the heart of the world, for one was made to satisfy the other." So [Emet] fastened the thing to an arrow and let it fly long into the sea, where no aspect of the new world may ever find it.
Hazel McCallah (The Unexplored Places: Ruin's Gate):
#her best friend is a wild west sawbones who looks like jason mantzoukas #she's addicted to laughing gas made from space mushrooms #she wears a locket with a picture of her parents who are still back on earth #she was sent to space as an indentured child laborer and became a boxer and then part of a protection racket slash wildernes guide faction #and then she killed the leader of that faction when he threatened her beloved town and community #one time she fought an enormous skeleton monster called the Mother of Bones #anyway even if you don't vote go listen to Ruin's Gate
Emmy Acero (Tidal Wave Games Podcast: SEE YOU SPACE COWBOY...):
You gotta vote for Emmy, he killed Batman!
You gotta vote for Emmy, look at that little face.
I need you to vote for Emmy and for Moenbryda because the art I commissioned of them for the bracket still isn't finished and they can't get knocked out before I even get the chance to use it
My boy Emmy can't lose! Go vote for Emmy!!!
Hazel & Emmy together:
Consider we could do the funniest thing right now yall
#hazel and emmy new power couple
#I think Emmy just got a new hot butch aunt yall #Hopefully this goes better than the last aunt
Moenbryda Wilfsunnwyn (Tidal Wave Games Podcast: Interstitial 2E):
6'7" silver-haired woman with an undercut, thigh and neck tattoos, and a battleaxe
Has a PhD in magic rocks but decided to also put stats into "muscle mommy" because she wanted to be able to cleave monsters in half with an axe. And she does! Often!
Sacrificed herself to save her friends and the world and is now "dead" but, through multiversal wizardly shenanigans, continues to exist but only as a memory; i.e. she can only exist as long as people remember her. Meaning if she loses this contest she will literally die
Mod Note: Please only vote for the Moenbryda Wilfsunnwyn that appears in the podcast Tidal Wave Games Podcast: Interstitial 2e.
Art of Hazel McCallah by Dakota Curry.
Art of Emmy Acero by @violetfoxsketches.
Additional propaganda below the cut:
Hazel McCallah (The Unexplored Places: Ruin's Gate):
Middle aged woman who now uses her fighting skills to defend people.
Rescues a girl without a mother and gets so absorbed in teaching this girl how to ride a horse she misses a job.
Probably a lesbian.
Died and came back wrong. :)
Made me cry.
No but seriously if you want a Cowboy With A Hard Past Who Wants To Get Home To His Family But After Decades Realizes He Has A New Community He Wants To Stay For but with a woman, Hazel delivers in spades.
definitely a lesbian
has terrible horrible visions of Doom
occasionally gets possessed by a supernatural force that makes her better at fighting demons and also makes smoke pour out of her eyes
described as "if Charlize Theron in Mad Max didn't have a celebrity skincare routine"
fights with a fucking sick axe with a red stone head
wears an old flight suit but with the arms tied around her waist like a classic hot scifi lesbian
died and came back wrong!!!!!!!!
her link to the world of the living is the motherless 12 year old girl she rescued from a mine collapse and taught how to ride a horse and who loves her sooooo much
almost got turned into a centaur made of plant and bone one time
has a horse named Freddie
can engage a small gang on equal footing
Hazel is literally a hot middle aged butch cowboy who died and came back wrong it does NOT get sexier than that
what's sexier than a middle aged butch cowboy with a shady past born out of desperation to survive on a harsh and unforgiving planet who makes the conscious decision to not only become a better person and use her strength to help her struggling community, but also who willingly sacrifices herself to atone for her past and then COMES BACK FROM THE DEAD, resurrected by the spirit of said planet, to continue to protect that community and the people in it?
is it a middle aged butch cowboy who rescues a young girl—who, grieving the loss of her own mother in a mining accident, ran away from home and got trapped in the same haunted mine where her mother died—and decides to become a mentor to that young girl, and is motivated by the desire to make the world into a kinder place for that girl than it was to her when she was a child?
or maybe it's a middle aged butch cowboy who, when she fights supernatural monsters with her cool hellstone axe, has smoke come out of her eyes and succumbs to prophetic visions of doom???
also she's HOT
Listen, I'm going to be honest here. I don't think I'd ever found a podcast character hot before Hazel. Now Hazel is the metric against which all other podcast characters are judged. I've never listened to that other show, but how Hazel isn't just absolutely running away with this thing is beyond me.
Emmy Acero (Tidal Wave Games Podcast: SEE YOU SPACE COWBOY...):
Latino trans man, college student turned movie stunt double turned space bounty hunter. Father blew his entire college fund on a cryptocurrency scheme, now trying to raise enough money as a gig worker to pay off his debt before his school's tuition office's hitmen come after him. And that's before he finds out about the whole "secret destiny" thing…
Might be inexperienced (don't worry, he's a consenting adult) but he's a very quick learner. Just look how quickly he learned the saxophone!
Accidental rizz levels off the charts. Canonically has the most romantic/sexual success of any character in the podcast, almost entirely unintentionally on his part
You float the idea of knife play and he says "omg I thought you would never ask". Next thing you know you're sitting in a chair watching him perform actual knife tricks for two hours
Special skills: "True Strength is in the Core", "Can Fit in Spaces Most Can't", "Resting Innocent Face" (aka puppy dog eyes). I think you can fill in the blanks
There's just something about this guy, I can't quite put my finger on it...
Moenbryda Wilfsunnwyn (Tidal Wave Games Podcast: Interstitial 2E):
Summoned by Gwonam the wizard to Castlevania to kill Dracula because she (along with Lt. Worf of the Starship Enterprise and Squirtle, the Pokémon) was supposedly a distant relation of the Belmont bloodline, and was immediately like "yeah cool sounds great" despite not knowing what a Dracula was
FELL CLEAVE
I voiced this version of Moen. I do drop the accent after the first episode but whatever. Vote Moen. Give her the win.
Moenbryda Wilfsunnwyn more like Moenbryda is gonna win
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'He Who Traveled the Stars' — One of Nine wyrm cards I've sent off for test prints, and I'll have a few sets for fanfest. I need to finish a custom backing I didn't have done in time, and the second run on I hope to have available for sale...
"Koana should have been Dawnservant alone" belongs right alongside "Stormblood shouldn't have been about both Doma and Ala Mhigo" in the sense that both are saying they should have thrown out the entire theme of the expansion.
Since I'm nearing the end of my Stormblood replay I'm gonna say more about this. It is a pretty major theme of Stormblood that Ala Mhigo cannot throw off the imperial occupation alone. If they could, they would have done it already! It's not for lack of trying that they haven't succeeded. Doma is in the same boat. The common people of both regions are skeptical and even hostile to resistance groups not because they're apathetic or cowardly but because they've seen what happened to those who tried before. For a quarter century Garlemald has just been too powerful for any isolated resistance force to stand against alone. There is a reasons we've had refugees from both regions flocking to Eorzea since ARR. Even the Eorzean Alliance has lacked confidence in its ability to hold off Garlemald until very recently (with Operation Archon and the defeat of the Ultima Weapon). There's a reason the leaders of the other Eorzean city-states have been looking east and wringing their hands for decades while the imperials built castrums within their borders because the Alliance couldn't stop them.
There's a reason winning freedom from the Empire requires more than the Warrior of Light showing up. This is the real importance of Zenos in Stormblood, and frankly, I think there's too much focus on how his obsession with the Warrior of Light makes them special and not enough on what he represents about Garlemald. When Zenos shows up at Rhalgr's Reach, his narrative purpose couldn't be more clear. He represents the strength of the Empire when it turns its full attention upon a problem. He represents the reason you cannot win. He will also come to represent the Empire destroying itself from within, and in some ways that should be just as terrifying as the way he strikes you down at Rhalgr's Reach. Because if Zenos actually cared about the Garlean Empire more than he cared about his personal ambitions, it's entirely possible that even the joint rebellion of Doma and Ala Mhigo would not have succeeded.
From a Watstonian perspective, could the game have given us a story about how actually Ala Mhigo just needed the Warrior of Light and a pep talk to drive out their oppressors? Sure, they could have, and it would have been a much worse story.
I do think Stormblood fumbles some things with regard to Ala Mhigo, in particular a) the tendency to give plot-relevant characters lighter skin/hair/eyes relative to most background Ala Mhigans (and this didn't start with Stormblood but it's still a problem), and imo b) not making Ala Mhigo the endgame hub so that we would spend more time there and it would feel like a real inhabited city, a frankly baffling decision.
The theme that standing up against imperialism requires solidarity and allyship, though, is a good theme, vital to the story Stormblood is telling and in line with the themes of the game as a whole.
Oh, and since this comes up a lot I will add: I think it would actually have been really easy to integrate Ala Mhigo into the story earlier to set it up as an endgame hub and it's honestly weird to me that they didn't do this! Just... have us make contact with a Resistance cell operating out of the Ala Mhigan quarter? Surely it would make sense for there to be one and for the main Resistance force to coordinate with them for the assault on the city. Maybe tie this in to Pipin's network of spies in the Peaks which we bizarrely aren't told about until level 68!
A collection of strategy boards that have been shared with me. I love these neat little ephemeral pieces of art. Some are practical, some are memes, some are just plain awesome - get a look at that Bob Ross!
For non-FFXIV players, these are supposed to be for planning and sharing gameplay strategies, but have become ways to share... these, instead. Tiny canvases inside a game that I think have incredible artistic merit.
Ask and ye shall receive @thebeauregardbros! I don't have all of them still saved, but I can share Bob Ross.
Joy of Painting (Bob Ross):
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And just for fun, here's a few more strategy boards!
i liked living memory precisely because namikka + the side quests made it more like. we loved you so much that even digital imitations of us can’t wear off the imprint of it. my weird unethical cyberclone would just walk around “paradise” looking for where you went. so I saw them as love letters from the real people if nothing else
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Shoutout to the that time alphinaud attended 3 memorial services for the fallen back to back to back and felt the need to lean over to the exact same total stranger at every single one to explain how the guy giving the speech was a little bitch.
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