Erick Gage's RP/Inspiration Blog

Yasumi always looks back fondly at her time in the Dravanian Hinterlands working on her scholarship. No, really, she does.

Ma'am that bikini o-o

I'm about halfway through my Stormblood replay and I just love watching how Lyse is progressing here as a character. I think she says a lot of things that come across as ignorant especially when meeting cultures she's not familiar with, but critically a lot of them are questions; she is trying to learn. And it stands in an interesting contrast to when she was playing Yda and every time she would say something silly or uninformed, Papalymo would be there with a withering remark. And I don't want to come down too hard on Papalymo, because ultimately he was just trying to protect the cover she chose, and would have preferred her to drop it altogether if she was willing.

yannow not to be a gridania defender or anything but it rubs me the wrong way when people are like "gridania is the only one of the arr city-states which never solved its very obvious social and organizational problems and thus it's the Evil Racist One that it's fine to hate" because like. you understand that that is fully a result of the plot giving literally nothing to gridania ever, right? you understand that gridania's internal politics are never ever given the attention that ul'dah and limsa get? you understand that huge portions of post-arr and post-heavensward and post-stormblood and post-shadowbringers are dedicated to limsa and ul'dah's social issues and npcs and their relationships to each other? you understand how kan-e-senna's second-in-command, who is literally gridania's equivalent of raubahn, does not have a fucking name?

The most infuriating part is that Gridania absolutely should have had more of a spotlight in Stormblood. It shares a border with Ala Mhigo. It shares history with Ala Mhigo. That history resulted in some people in Gridania not wanting to help liberate Ala Mhigo because they're still upset over them invading the Twelveswood and the Autumn War, but you wouldn't know that if you didn't do the SB BRD job quests. Also, the Elementals got severely weakened during the 7th Calamity, which is why we haven't really had to deal with much related to them in ARR, but I feel like people don't really take seriously exactly what the Gridnians are dealing with if they want to continue living in the Twelveswood and why they live the way they do.

Oh Tataru, we're really in it now...