Of the Swirling Abyss

Do you like energetic, self-taught Roegadyn mages who just wanted to go on a grand adventure and found more than they bargained for? Do you like big, buff women who love roughhousing and crafting stuff? Do you like women with a bit of a punk edge to them who are nevertheless kind and caring? Then Ernastral Klyng's your gal!

Do you like cynical yet kind-hearted Elezen healers? How about a technical pacifist from a warrior nation who hates fighting but will definitely brain you with his healing instruments if you test him? How about an alchemist with somewhat flexible ethics? Then Lenar Nillefrant's your guy!

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So it is more than a little peculiar that Ernastral so easily passed through the rift and landed on the First. And that, even now, she can easily pass between the First and the Source with the same aetheryte travel as one might use to teleport from Ul'dah to Limsa Lominsa. For now, this mystery seems to have a simple answer: the Crystal Exarch was finally successful in his attempts to bridge the gap and allow her access to another shard.

But, perhaps, there is more to this mystery than one might think.

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Well, so far I've only met up with a few of them. Lenar and Alphinaud both seem more confident than before. Lenar especially! I mean Lenar has already changed so much since when I first met him, but it feels like night and day for him, you know? Alphinaud hasn't been here as long, but even still he seems a lot more confident than the last time I saw him. He's been growing into his own ever since I met him, and it's nice to see how far he's come.

Alisaie... in some ways she's the same as she ever was. She's always been more of an "act first, think later" kind of person. But I think she's gotten a little more thoughtful lately. She's still leaping headfirst into danger like she always has, but she's also, I dunno, more cautious too? She takes more time to analyze a situation, gather information, that kind of stuff.

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Relationship Questions

We met way back when we were still pretty new to adventuring, actually! Limsa Lominsa was dealing with some pirates who'd been tempered by Leviathan's Sahuagin servants, and so they were recruiting adventurers to head into the lair in Sastasha and make sure they didn't have a chance to summon Leviathan for real. Me, Lenar, and Cress all happened to take the job and ran into each other at the entrance to Sastasha. I can't remember if it was my idea or Cress's to team up, but either way the three of us agreed and wound up forging into the depths together.

Thing is, at the time, none of us were frontliners and Lenar hadn't really picked up healing yet. So I just kinda went "fuck it, I'm big and burly, I can stand in the way and tank a few hits." After I took a few too many, Lenar gave me an earful and told me to be more careful. So Cress got the idea to lure enemies to us and let us get the drop on them. Took us a bit longer to get through, but we wound up working out a rhythm eventually and soon enough we managed to clear the place out.

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((She is remarkably perceptive. Probably more perceptive than some people give her credit for. On the upside, this very much helps her out when it comes to reading opponents on the battlefield very quickly, and it usually helps her get a feel for whether someone is going to be a decent person or an asshole. It's not foolproof, of course. Everyone makes a bad call from time to time.

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((It's honestly kind of a complicated ouroboros of confidence lol. On the one hand, she's surrounded by very cool and very capable people who all regularly do very cool and inspiring things all the time. On the other hand, she herself is a very cool and capable person who has done very cool and inspiring things, and has gotten praise for them on top of that! So it becomes a self-sustaining cycle of "my very cool and capable friends have done something that inspires me" that becomes "I have done something very cool and inspired everyone around me" which leads to people doing more cool and inspiring things, etc.

It also probably helps that she came into things with a good helping of confidence in herself and her abilities, even if she was starting off as a level one Thaumaturge. A large part of that is due to the simple fact that her family always celebrated her accomplishments—they celebrated all of their kids' accomplishments with the same level of enthusiasm, even if they didn't always understand those accomplishments. So she doesn't see why she shouldn't celebrate others' accomplishments, or why they wouldn't celebrate hers.

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((I mean there's the obvious intimidation factor, what with her being over seven foot tall and pretty solidly built lmao

She can also be kind of loud and excitable at times, which might not be everyone's cup of tea. On the flip side, she can also be genuinely kind of brutal and vicious, and while not quite self-righteous or anything she does have a strong sense of justice. And can be about as subtle as a sledgehammer when she wants to be. And when she decides to really let loose, to be as vicious and cutting as she can be... she can be quite vicious indeed.

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I mean... Lenar sometimes, depending on what's bothering me. And I guess I've talked to Sidurgu about some stuff. And Crowley, too.

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