Valiant's Trust

Tonight, the Forgotten Knight RP crew returns to Ishgard on Balmung

I’m opening THREE (3) slots for bust only painted edits, the base price being £25 GBP (roughly $30 USD via conversion) -  Larger work/more details+editing may incur an additional small fee, but it will be discussed beforehand. Payment through Paypal invoices only and I do not issue refunds. (Either half now and half after or full price upfront only) 

If you want a couple picture it’s an additional +£15 per character added to the shot (an additional +£5 if I have to take the screenshot myself per panel) If you’re interested in something else or a set please let me know and we can discuss details.

Example: One Character Bust (£25) / if I take the screenshot (+£5) / if you add a character (+£15) = total price Turn around time is 1-3 weeks depending on schedule, but I’ll be sure to keep you updated and let you know about any delays.

Please also have on hand any extra references that show ways your character differs from in-game, any added extras etc., plus a short list of general ‘aesthetics’ or things like pinterest boards/playlists that you think would help me convey your character correctly. 

Below is an example of what you’ll be receiving, with an example of the before shot [here] to give a rough idea of what I can work with. For more examples of my work you can visit my Edits tag found [here]

Feel free to DM me if interested, on here or on twitter. o/

Come join us at Seaside Aquarium for its first Open House! 

April 9th, 2020 || 9-11pm EDT, 6-8pm PDT Balmung, The Mist: Ward 3, Plot 51

Recruitment Status: [OPEN]

«VT-RP» is recruiting! We’re a philanthropic organisation focused on the betterment of Hydaelyn through multiple services including mercenary work, exploration, scholarly pursuits and artisanal needs. Through comradery and development, we aim to not only better ourselves; but those around us. While based in Gridania, our reach is not limited, as we travel the realm to do what we can!**

EU FC ◆ NA/AU Welcome ◆ Weekly Events ◆ Collaboration ◆ Adventure ◆ Exploration ◆ IC/OOC Linkshell ◆ Active Discord ◆ Guests Welcome

What «VT-RP» Offer:

◆ EU based Balmung FC, but we accept NA/AU too, if your times align! ◆ Weekly RP Events - both social and adventure. ◆ Encouragement of character plot development, as well as a growing FC plot! ◆ Lore abiding, but not lore strict! We like to have fun, but still respect the lore. ◆ Accommodate multiple RP types, characters and players. ◆ Growing community active both inside and outside of FFXIV.

**While we are a good leaning FC, we are always welcome to discuss all types of characters we see throughout the FFXIV Community. We have weekly RP events, from casual to adventure and general comradery. We’re looking for new members to add to our ranks, as well as players who are comfortable DMing, and any contacts within the community to colab and work with! Server: Balmung (EU/GMT based) RP Type: Medium to Heavy RP, preferably Good/Neutral Alignments! Active Times: 6PM (GMT) Onwards in the Week, All day on Weekends.

“The laws of society are each a weight upon the poor. With each day, another dozen pounds is added to the shoulders of those who already carry so much, all for the benefit of the few and the rich. To become a thief is to disregard these laws, to shrug free the weights upon your back… but to become one of us is to cut others free, and rise together.”

Who Are We?

The Court of Thieves is a Linkshell community comprised of criminal roleplayers located on Balmung in the Crystal Data Center! The main goal of the Court of Thieves is to secure a place within the world as a sort of ‘Thieves’ Haven’ – with eyes carefully watching the ongoing conflict between the Alliance and the Empire. 

Stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, they have defended the refugees and indentured–left to rot within the city while the rich only grow richer–time and time again while seeking solutions that could ignite the fires within the people and stand with them as they rise up. 

Known famously for their bombing of three record offices in Ul’dah, their efforts wiped the debts out of dozens of indebted servants, freeing them from the Bloodsands and forced labor in one single move. No single person was apprehended for these bombings, but the custom coins left behind on the scene, with a single skull in a crown on it’s face were very telling of the true culprits.

Where Can You Find Us?

The Coin & Crown Pawn Shop - A seedy shop run by even shadier people, located in the Mists of La Noscea. Anything you want or need, sold at the right price in one easy stop. Items and relics and tools and tech, everything has a price–including the services of the Thieves holed up there. Above the shop is the Thieve’s Den, a hangout and resting area known by any within the Underground as a safe haven for the weary, the beds are open to any, and violence against another thief there is forbidden… unless you’re below on the last floor. There, an open bar remains with warm food and inviting drinks–as well as an arena in the middle to get those bar fights out of one’s system. A betting counter is available to those spectating, and breakable chairs are available to those participating in the ring.

( Mists, Ward 7 Plot 4 )

The Mirage - A massive Black Market venue in the deep deserts of Thavnair, difficult to reach unless one has an invitation, it houses the most notorious and coveted of goods–well worth the risk of one’s life to get there. Home to an immensely powerful Daeva and his ever loyal Jackals, it is perhaps the most guarded and sanctified place within the Court of Thieves’ grasp. A VIP lounge overlooks the market for those who are friends of the King of Thieves himself, any form of coin or bartering is allowed though violence for the sake of violence will be put to rest swiftly. Those causing trouble within the Mirage will find themselves in the middle of the treacherous desert sands, alone and left to wander.

( Goblet, Ward 11 Plot 35 )

What Are We Looking For?

Not only are we looking for new members, but we’re also seeking out contacts for our future endeavors! It’s our hope to bring together the criminal organizations all across the whole of the Crystal Data Center and create a bigger, better experience not only to those role-playing in these roles but also to those playing as more lawfully abiding groups/individuals! We invite you to join us in any way you’d please, and we hope to live up to expectations!

Resources

#1 Voracious: Remember the Guardian

#2 Bargain: All or Nothing

#3 Lost: Arcadia

#4 Shifting Blame: For All Our Days (TW’s apply!)

#5 Vault: In Response

#6 First Steps: Evie

#7 Forgiven: Look Him In The Eye, Aim No Higher

#9 Hesitate: Our Sacred Mission (TW’s apply!)

#11 Snuff: Extrasensory

#12 Fingers Crossed: Mad Science

#13 Wax: Deadline

#17 Obeisant: To Crack the Whip

#18 Wilt: Broken

#20 Bisect: Downsizing

#21 Crunch: Seventy Five

#22 Vicarious: The Saint of Georgie’s Duel

#23 Parched: Three Days

#24 Unctuous: Weak Wills and Pretty Women

#26 Slosh: Blizzard

#27 Palaver: An Oronir Ala Mhigo

#28 Attune: Half Broken Things

Come join us! For more information check out Aetherwatch Society HERE

Flourish proudly presents Day of the Dead: A festival based around the historic Mexican holiday.

Join us in introducing an otherworldly tradition to Eorzea, where we can pay remembrance to all of our lost loved ones and honor their lives.

Experience several performances from: @whitherwanderer @talysings @savothesewercat @dmlynx @hunter-of-the-land

Food booths from: @tea-ffxiv @tssbalmung

I made a carrd for it so it is easier for people to see the rules and everything. We will still be using the spreadsheet on the back end of course!

The Festival of Nhaama will be a traditional festival held in Azim Steppe. The games are Bokh, Horse Racing, and Archery. The celebration is meant as a means to bring all Xaela together without bloodshed to honor those who have fallen in combat years prior and warriors of the future to show honor and skill in hopes to avoid most conflicts until the day of ‘Eriin Gurvan Naadam’ where a new lead tribe is selected to rule over the Steppe.

For further information, please see the carrd link or message @foofmastaflex (Chabi Sunir) or @a-wanderers-sorrow (Kete Sunir) for further information!

Remember!

Event is on Balmung (Crystal Data Center) Date: November 16th @ 8pm  EST 

Sign ups are open! All races are welcomed! Performers and Vendors welcomed to world RP and gain business! We highly encourage it!

https://festivalofnhaama.carrd.co/

 Ichihiko of Ichimitsu Okiya from Hingashi has moved as a free geisha to La Noscea and will be performing for ozashiki at Uranami Onsen on Mateus server! Services include tea ceremonies, performances, and banquets featuring in-game food and drink items! Your character could have heard from Uranami Onsen’s presence of geisha, picking up word across Limsa Lominsa and Kugane of practicing Hingan geisha in the Mist!

For more information, see Uranami Onsen’s page on entertainment and see Ichihiko’s page of services! Please note in-game, actual gil is expected for the services, at least from Ichihiko. All funds go to renovating the ozashiki hall and are split with the onsen. Those interested in scheduling an ozashiki (banquet with geisha) at Uranami Onsen are free to contact/friend FullOfSandwiches#3541 on Discord or whisper Nobuyuki Ienaka in-game. @mooglemeet @mateus-rp @crystalxivrp @balmungrp @coeurl-rp @zalera-rp

It's time to get spoopy my friends. At Balmung!

Join us! Costumes are very much encouraged (Discounts on drinks if you wear one)!

A big thanks to @mteshi-ffxiv for another great poster. As usual signal boosts are most appreciated.

This has been a question that’s popped up a couple of times over the years so, to try and condense it into a sort of master-post, this is how to maximise your chances of content being seen by the blogs with tumblr’s janky tagging and @ system. This applies mostly to my blogs, but serves as a handy how-to for tumblr at large.

NOTE — Even with these explanations, there’s still a chance your content won’t be seen. Yeah, it sucks, but that’s just tumblr. I’ve had posts pop up in the moogle tags/search that I can’t see but other people can see, even though my main blog ( because these are both sideblogs! ) hasn’t been blocked. That’s easily proven in the fact I can reblog the postsm, not to mention my main blog is relatively unknown in the community so the likelihood of being blocked is minimal afdkgjhfdg. — anyway, onto the bulk of this post!

Tagging: a huge, HUGE thing a lot of people don’t know about tumblr’s tagging system is that when you go to tag a post only the first five tags will appear in tumblr’s tag results. The rest are apparently seen as applicable tags for your blog ( why? I have no idea! ), so they won’t appear. So, for example, if you want your post to be seen in the tag tumblr.com/tagged/mooglemodels, you HAVE to make sure #mooglemodels is somewhere in the first five tags. I’ll give an example:

So #final fantasy xiv, #balmung, #mateus, #mooglemodels and #ffxivscreenshots will appear, but the last two won’t. However, this is ONLY applicable for tags.

AMENDMENT: Please note that tagging only works if you’re the posts creator. Tumblr will not record reblogs in its tagged page. I believe the same applies for the search function too, though that’s currently unverified. Basically if you’re not the posts creator but you want me to see your content, please @ the blog or IM me. 

The search function, which you can see for @mooglemodels by clicking here, should, at least theoretically, catch everything after the first five tags — but it doesn’t always work. Search is supposed to display everything that mentions a particular word, phrase, etc… but it’s a hit or miss if that actually happens. There’s no secret to being displayed in search other than using the phrases mooglemodels or mooglemeet, which using the tag and @ method should hopefully cover anyway.

The @ function should put your post in my activity feed, which is the first place I generally look when I check the blog(s) every day. Though this is generally reliable, there have been some cases when it has not. Again, there’s no secret to tagging the blog other than making sure you’re following it ( because sometimes the @ function bugs out if you’re not, I’ve had first hand experience with it ) and praying to whatever entity controls this site that it’s seen.

Of note: even if you tag/@ the blog, you post will not be seen for a few days. Both @mooglemeet and @mooglemodels run on a queue system to be courteous to the dash, so your post will simply end up at the back of the line. The ONLY exception is for @mooglemeet with time-sensitive events; they will be pushed to the front of the queue so their advertisement is seen in time.

THE BASICS ––– –

Age: Fifty summers.

Nameday: 14th Sun of the 4th Astral Moon

Race: Duskwight Elezen

Gender: Female

Marital Status: Single

PHYSICAL APPEARANCE ––– –

Hair: Dark blue, with light-blue dyed highlights.

Eyes: Violet 

Height: 200 cm

Build: Tall, athletic and long-legged

Distinguishing Marks: Dark-blue skin, crystalline violet eyes, she’s tall enough to pluck the stars from the sky (could probably jump to those she can’t reach)

Common Accessories: Earrings on her ears, occasionally a choker matching her outfit, flowers in her hair.

PERSONAL ––– –

Profession: Adventurer (Lancer, Machinist & novice Astromancer)

Hobbies: Cooking, sewing, helping people out, playing with children, petting / feeding every cute critter in sight (any unsupervised minions will be adopted on sight)

Languages: Common. Knows very, very little Gelmorran (her family name, basically)

Residence: Has a permanent room rented at the Quicksand in Ul’dah; is currently furnishing an apartment at the Topmast in Mist, Limsa Lominsa. Is looking for opportunities to return to Ishgard.

Birthplace: The Coerthan Western Highlands

Patron Deity: Halone, regular believer.

Fears: Loneliness, despair, helplessness, going back to the ‘old life’.

RELATIONSHIPS ––– -

Spouse: None yet

Children: None yet?

Parents: Passed away.

Siblings: Sole child.

Other Relatives: None she knows of.

Pets: Misha the Hunting Hawk; Cuddles the Red Panda; Prince the Behemoth pup; Kitty the Coeurl kitten. Honorable mention: Goldrin the golden Chocobo, the best companion a girl could hope to have.

TRAITS ––– -

* Bold your character’s answer.

Extroverted / In Between / Introverted

Disorganized / In Between / Organized

Close Minded / In Between / Open Minded

Calm / In Between / Anxious

Disagreeable / In Between / Agreeable

Cautious / In Between / Reckless

Patient / In Between /  Impatient

Outspoken / In Between / Reserved

Leader / In Between / Follower

Empathetic / In Between / Apathetic

Optimistic / In Between / Pessimistic

Traditional / In Between / Modern

Hard-working / In Between / Lazy

Cultured / In Between / Uncultured

Loyal / In Between / Disloyal

Faithful / In Between / Unfaithful

RP HOOKS ––– –

A Gentle Soul: You might not catch her in lively, chaotic places very often (she gets lost in a sea of masses easily), but rather in cozy, secluded corners of areas she had time to familiarize herself with. The Carline Canopy is almost like a second home whenever she happens to be in Grdiania; the Hall of Flames in Ul’dah is also a likely place to catch her. Lately, she’s spending a lot of time in Ishgard, helping out in the Brume and absorbing the studies of astrology to the best of her abilities.

The Road Suits A Traveler: More often than not, she’s on the road towards places - either on a job for the Adventurer’s Guild, to help out the locals or simply to stay in motion. She will always stop to greet and chat fellow travelers should they welcome it.

The Valiant’s Trust: Sybelle has recently thrown her lot with The Valiant’s Trust, a philanthropic Free Company where she places her full faith to not only be in a position to better help those in need, but also form ties with like-minded people and finally belong to a community.

Succor for the Lost: Sybelle is very keen on helping those who need it, and would do so happily for free. She wears her heart on her sleeve and her empathy can be easily taken advantage of (whether she realizes it or not).

OOC INFORMATION  ––– –

Hi! I’m Syb-mun. I also go by Tyb (Yes. I’m *that* Tyb, if you ever were part of the LoL Tumblr RP fandom) or Shan (from WoW). You can call me Syb, though!

I’m 24 yo, July baby, female but you can call me whatever. As long as I recognize you’re talking to me :’)

EU, Romanian Timezone (GMT +3) Forever sad because I practically live in Narnia and away from all the cool people.

I don’t have a life so I’m almost always online, though.

I really love cats and I adore birds, unironically.

I play games, lots of MMO experiences. FF14 is now my favorite because oh my god visible jewelry? And minions that clamber on your shoulder? SIGN ME THE F  U  C  K   U  P.

Oh yeah I also swear a lot. Pls excuse, it’s not u, it’s me - I just have pent-up anger issues.

I also have the attention span of a squirrel, and the memory of a goldfish.

If I forget anything important, pls excuse. I don’t know how Tumblr works sometimes.

Oh yeah, @liott-monar is my girlfriend and she’s the reason I got into FF14. Blame her, m’kay?

SCREENSHOT CREDITS: @liott-monar for the gifs and Fida Viras for the amazing screenshots used in this post. If I find her URL I promise I’ll tag. <3 <3 <3

CONTACT INFORMATION  ––– –

In Game - Sybelle Cassalantar @ Balmung, Crystal Data Center.

Tumblr - @theblueswallow

lit. “Heart or Death,” used figuratively to mean “(Your choice is between) The Heart (Moral Values, Duty, Loyalty) or Death (to no longer matter, to no longer be respected as person of integrity.)”

A pet project of mine come to life because I absolutely need more of those, COR AUT MORS is a Garlean RP Discord oriented toward building connections between Garlean and Garlean-adjacent characters. Regardless of a character’s standing with the Empire, we welcome anyone interested in forging connections for or with Garlean and Garlean-adjacent characters.

I’ve enlisted the help of @miyuki-mazaki and @arcianmartell to help with running it as well, they are very cool and very sweet! While the focus is on OOC connections-building for the moment, I won’t rule out the possibility of running some get-together sorts of events in the future!

LEX SCRIPTA

We’ve established a few ground rules, which we hope will suffice to create an environment conducive to our goals with this Discord!

1. Exercise common courtesy. Discussion is fine, disagreement is fine, but blatant antagonism is not. If a conflict looks like it’s getting too heated or it’s making people uncomfortable, it’s easier for all parties to either drop the topic or take a break to cool off. Your freedoms end where others’ begin. 

2. Bigotry of any kind (racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc) will not be tolerated.

3. Practice proper RP etiquette. Don’t metagame, and remember that IC ≠ OOC. Follow house rules of any RP venues. Don’t force people into RP scenarios that they are not comfortable with. Above all, be willing to accept the in-character consequences for your character’s actions. 

4. This is a lore-compliant space. We won’t maim you for not knowing a tiny obscure detail about some aspect of the lore or another and we know how to suspend our disbelief. Just keep it sane, and everything’ll be fine!