#etheirys

Time was not real after one's soul had been absorbed by a primal, and yet, the former Architect felt like it was dragging in the moments after the summoning, a paradox he perhaps will never be able to explain. When he finally opened his eyes for the first time, he found himself in the moon and knew not how or what happened to take him there. Still, the single purpose of his sacrifice had control over his soul, and he found himself staring at the image that mattered the most: Etheirys. What once was a planet on fire, now was a placid blue dot in the night sky, as beautiful and hopeful as it once was before the Final Days. Hythlodaeus knew his body was no more, and perhaps, his soul would be forever stranded on the moon now, yet his eyes glistened and hopeful tears glided on his cheeks, and he smiled one last time and thought to himself. "Worry not, my friends. All is well."

Happy nameday to @humblemooncat. Does this count as scenery? It's definitely a scene I suppose and I like that Humble is musing over the beauty and fragility of Etheirys - and feeling very small compared to the enormity of his task.

When the Loporrits asked him where do babies come from, he went with the storks explanation.

"ꀸꂦꂦꂵꍟꀸ ꓄ꂦ ꍏ ꌗꃅꂦꋪ꓄ ꒒ꀤꎇꍟ, ꌩꂦꀎ ꃅꍏꃴꍟ ꌗꂦ ꒒ꀤ꓄꓄꒒ꍟ ꓄ꀤꂵꍟ. ꍏꈤꀸ ꈤꂦ꓄ ꂦꈤ꒒ꌩ ꌗꃅꂦꋪ꓄, ꈤꂦꅏ, ꌃꀎ꓄ ꎇꀤ꒒꒒ꍟꀸ ꅏꀤ꓄ꃅ ꃅꍟꍏꋪ꓄ꌃꋪꍟꍏꀘ ꓄ꂦꂦ, ꂵꂦꋪꍟ ꓄ꃅꍏꈤ ꍏ꒒꒒ ꂦ꓄ꃅꍟꋪ ꂵꍟꈤ ꍏ꒒ꀤꃴꍟ–ꀸꂦꂦꂵꍟꀸ ꓄ꅏꀤꉓꍟ ꂦꃴꍟꋪ."

I've decided to characterize "Amaurotine" (as the ancestor of Allagan and the languages of the First) as having a regular root structure: C(V)C(V)C. Each root must contain at least one vowel. The names we see of Amaurotine characters are in fact the Allagan forms, for example athavaj -> lahabrea tɛwðlafon -> dewdalafon ðelxtivuθ -> elidibus xmfatðelx -> emetsélk In spoken Amaurotine, schwas are inserted to break up hard clusters, for example, ðelxtivuθ may have been pronounced ðelxətivuθ (and hence the -i- in Elidibus). Amaurotine roots are verbal; this is the form of Amaurotine spoken during Hermes' time as Fandaniel. Nouns and adjectives are usually derived from these verbal roots (with some exceptions such as kinship terms). For example, ðemh "to wander, roam, travel (for the sake of the journey)" becomes aðemh "wanderer, the Traveler, Azem" by the addition of the a- prefix, which functions like the English -er suffix. a- is the most advanced of a series of irregular weakenings of the original prefix, fat- (hence fa-d- in fandanjel), to hat-, at-, and finally a-. * Combinations of two base verb roots are often used as names or other nominals in their own right. For example, ðelxtivuθ = ðelx "to resolve an issue, to right things" (hence also xmfatðelx, where it expands to "to redeem (someone)") + tivuθ "to make a treaty, agreement, compromise" * The Amaurotine word for planet, atlhaθ-watðemh, is derived identically to the Greek idiom "wandering star", through influence of the general concept of "wandering" or "roaming" and the association between Azem and the sun. However, it is usually truncated to atlhaθ "star" rather than a form of ðemh, and atlhaθ is used to refer to Etheirys as well. Yes, this is all to explain the unusual use of "star" to refer to any planet in FFXIV's universe.

There are real-world explanations for the name differences: Dragonspeak wasn't created until Heavensward, legacy Final Fantasy names for dragons like Bahamut and Midgardsormr popped up in-story before that. But the dragon storylines use linguistics for fun worldbuilding and characterization beats a lot anyways.

glimpse of the past | @etheirys , @tsunael l thank you for the ask!!

Alright, so are we ever going to find out just what the Source and the shards actually look like from space? We already know that Etheirys itself and the moon were sundered, but what does that look like in regards to the rest of its solar system? Do they all revolve around the same sun, or do they all have its own sun? What about any other planets? Look, I just need to know how it all works cosmologically speaking, because I’m a big ass nerd. Also its 8 am on a Monday morning and I need more sleep.